Senior Nurse/Paramedic Band 6 | Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 20 Tachwedd 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £38,682 - £46,580 Per Annum / Pro rata |
| Oriau: | Rhan Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 20 Rhagfyr 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Lancing, BN15 8UW |
| Cwmni: | Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7605794/150-GM2231-UPC |
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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.
The Urgent Community Response (UCR) Service provides clinical interventions (including intravenous therapy) as part of a multidisciplinary teamcomprisingof Medics, Nurses, Paramedics, Physio and Occupational Therapists for admission avoidance pathways (2 hourresponse and general virtual wards), in line with the national specification for UCR and general virtual wards.
The postholder will berequiredto provide clinicalexpertiseandproblem solvingsupport for the nursing team as well as clinical care for patients requiring nursing care. They will co-ordinate the multi-disciplinary team,allocatingvisits asappropriate. There is an expectation to develop the service through reflective practice, clinical supervision, and audit. The postholder willidentifysuitable 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 - philippa.gregory2@nhs.net
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.
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 aSenior Nurseto join us, so ifyou’rean ambitious, proactive, and experienced nurse looking to take a lead role in a team that providescutting-edge, excellent community care,we’dlove 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.
This advert closes on Sunday 30 Nov 2025