Community Nurse - Out of Hours

Overview

We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic nurse to join the Out of Hours Teams based at Norwich Community Hospital and St James\’ Kings Lynn. The Out of Hours team is an Urgent Response Community Nursing Service working overnight in Norfolk and Waveney. Our aim is to avoid admissions to the acute setting by providing urgent community nursing care. We cover all areas in Norfolk and Waveney, in teams, every night with the coordination team based at Norwich Community Hospital. We work in partnership with East Coast Community Healthcare to deliver care across Great Yarmouth and Waveney.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the delivery of high standards of health care to patients within their own place of residence by assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating care, in order to prevent avoidable admission to hospital and facilitate early supported discharge.
• Support conversations with the wider Urgent Community Response (UCR) Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) on a regular basis enabling safe, appropriate and patient‑centred care to be delivered to this complex patient group.
• Predominantly provide face to face nursing care and assessment within a patient’s usual place of residence, with an element of triage and allocation for the Urgent Community Response Team on a rota basis, as well as other supportive activities as part of the MDT.

Working pattern

This is a 7 day a week service and some weekend working will be expected. Hours of service delivery are 8pm–8am, 365 days per year.

About the Trust

Norfolk Community Health & Care NHS Trust is committed to continuing to create a modern and inclusive work environment. As part of this commitment we actively promote flexible working opportunities where possible, to meet the needs and wishes of our workforce to maintain and improve their wellbeing. The trust offers a range of flexibility, including flexible working patterns, and we would encourage you to discuss this with the recruiting manager before or during the application process if this would interest you. We welcome applications from people who share our values and can help us deliver outstanding care in our local community.