Job summary
- Main area
- Adult Community
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 150-GM2231-UPC
- Employer
- Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- UCR Worthing
- Town
- Lancing
- Salary
- £38,682 - £46,580 Per Annum / Pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 30/11/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Nurse/Paramedic Band 6
Band 6
Job overview
The UCR Service provides urgent, seven-day support to help prevent unnecessary hospital admissions. We deliver a two-hour crisis response through a multi-skilled team, supporting people at home when their health or mobility is declining. We also work closely with the local ambulance service to pull category 3 and 4 patients from the stack, enabling rapid community-based care and helping people remain safely at home.
Alongside this, the UCR team runs a virtual ward supported by digital technology and remote monitoring, allowing patients to receive hospital-level care at home. Daily clinical reviews take place either through home visits or video assessments.
Our multidisciplinary team includes GPs, Nurses, Paramedics, Pharmacists, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, and Health & Therapy Assistants. Together, we provide a 7-day service, 365 days a year, from 8am–8pm.
If you’re passionate about admission avoidance, delivering fast-paced, high-quality care, and working within a supportive, dedicated team, we are looking for a Senior Nurse to join us. If you’re ambitious, proactive, and ready to lead, we’d love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
The Urgent Community Response (UCR) Service provides clinical interventions (including intravenous therapy) as part of a multidisciplinary team comprising of Medics, Nurses, Paramedics, Physio and Occupational Therapists for admission avoidance pathways (2 hour response and general virtual wards), in line with the national specification for UCR and general virtual wards.
The postholder will be required to provide clinical expertise and problem solving support for the nursing team as well as clinical care for patients requiring nursing care. They will co-ordinate the multi-disciplinary team, allocating visits as appropriate. There is an expectation to develop the service through reflective practice, clinical supervision, and audit. The postholder will identify suitable people referred to the service for planned early discharge from hospital or for the prevention of admission to the acute sector or long-term care.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will need to able to drive with a full UK licence and access to a vehicle due to the geographic area covered by the team.
If you would like to discuss this role or find out more, you can contact our Operational Team Lead, Philippa Gregory - [email protected]
Working for our organisation
We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex, with 6,000 staff serving 1.3 million people. We deliver essential care to adults and children, helping them manage their health, avoid hospital admissions, and reduce hospital stays.
Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community. We offer opportunities across medical, clinical, support, and corporate services.
Why work for us?
• Positive 2023 NHS Staff Survey results, highlighting compassionate leadership and wellbeing
• Varied environments: community hospitals, patients’ homes, and bases across Sussex
• Flexible working options: part-time, flexi-time, annualised hours, and flexi-retirement
• Excellent training, development, and research opportunities
• Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove, and Brighton
• Active EMBRACE, Disability & Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+, and Religion & Belief networks
• Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and Veteran Aware Trust
• Beautiful Sussex location near the South Downs and coast
Our values—Compassionate Care, Working Together, Achieving Ambitions, Delivering Excellence—guide everything we do.
We embrace diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds, particularly from ethnically diverse, disabled, and LGBTQIA+ individuals. We aim to create an inclusive environment and support reasonable adjustments during recruitment.
This post may close early if sufficient applications are received.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Do you have a passion for admission avoidance? Are you committed to delivering an outstanding service which is fast- paced and reliable? Do you want to work with a team of caring and dedicated staff? We are looking for a Senior Nurse to join us, so if you’re an ambitious, proactive, and experienced nurse looking to take a lead role in a team that provides cutting-edge, excellent community care, we’d love to hear from you!
You will need to able to drive with a full UK licence and access to a vehicle due to the geographic area covered by the team.
Further information is available in the attached job description and person specification.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- RGN Level 1 and Registration with NMC
- Evidence of post registration study
- Mentorship Module
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience at Band 5
- Experience in holistic patient assessments
- Experience of working within the NHS
- Experience of working within a community setting
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of management / supervision
- Evidence of research in practice
- Evidence of audit
Other
Essential criteria
- Car driver (Valid Driving License for use in the UK)
- Access to a vehicle for work purposes
Skills
Essential criteria
- Able to work as a team member
- Able to communicate effectively with patients, families, carer's and team members
- Able to make decisions and have well-developed assessment skills
- Able to demonstrate organisational and time management skills
- Able to demonstrate awareness of benefits of interdisciplinary working
- Able to show understanding of inter-agency liaison
- Up to date Venepuncture, Cannulation and Catheter skills
- Knowledge of respiratory conditions/nursing, orthopaedic surgery and administration of intravenous therapy
- General surgical knowledge
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Philippa Gregory
- Job title
- Operational Team Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01903 276900
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