Urgent Care Response Senior Community Nurse | Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Posting date:	16 March 2026
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£44,485 - £52,521 Per annum incl. HCAS
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	15 April 2026
Location:	Uxbridge, UB8 1QG
Company:	CNWL NHS Foundation Trust
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	7870968/333-G-HC-1583

Summary

This new role as part of a service expansion for a band 6 nurse to work within our Urgent Care Response team will be part of a large team working to mange patients at home whilst being responsive to new and known patients for 2 hour responses.

The post holder will act as a clinical resource to Urgent Community Response Team facilitating high quality evidence based practise and ensuring patients from variety of acute and community settings appropriately access out of hospital community health and social care services and receive effective rehabilitation. As a member of the Team, you will be expected to be a practitioner who will develop a broad range of competencies who is able to adapt to a wide variety of clinical circumstances. You will be part of a community team where you’re proven ability to make high level clinical decisions will aid patient recovery. This will include having a direct link to the patient’s discharging medical team for liaison and support where necessary and with the patients GP or other health care professional to prevent hospital admission.



The post-holder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team including nurses, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, healthcare assistants, and administrators to provide rapid assessment and treatment to patients who have urgent care needs in the community. The postholder will work in partnership with colleagues in the acute sector, social services, intermediate and primary care services to safely avoid unnecessary hospitalisation.

The post holder will be an acute skilled clinician (nurse) who will provide community based urgent care to patients who are referred with undifferentiated, varied and complex needs ensuring holistic assessment and community care pathway planning is undertaken to directly prevent unnecessary acute hospital admission.

The post holder will work in conjunction with community services and acute setting to Facilitate effective and safe return home from emergency departments and acute non admission areas.

We are passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care, whether it is in a hospital setting, in a community clinic or in the patient’s own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do. Providing top quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people. We are always looking to recruit outstanding people who will go the extra mile to support our patients, colleagues, teams and the Trust. With every new employee were hoping to find our future leaders and we will support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career.

With a diverse culture and equally diverse range of opportunities across mental health, community services, addictions, eating disorders, learning disabilities and more whatever stage of your career you're at, there's always a place for you at CNWL

To assess, plan, implement and provide evaluation of health care needs in conjunction with patients, their carer’s and other appropriate members of the multi professional team.

· To have agreed areas of responsibility and work as part of the team.

· To provide nursing care to patient in the community

· To see patients with potentially undifferentiated diagnosis including; objective assessment, physical assessment, treatment, follow-up and developing care plans.

· To ensure all patients on the caseload are managed well and discharged safely either to their GP or for further ongoing assessment, rehabilitation treatment and care.

· To be responsible for keeping up to date with current issues and events in Primary and Secondary Health Care

· Liaising with community services partners

· To be an active member of the team and the teams development.

· To provide support and health education for patients and carers through effective interpersonal skills.

· To comply with professional codes of conduct.

· To be able to work flexibly and relieve colleagues/rotate across the three boroughs as required and requested by the line manager to meet the needs of the service.

· To ensure that own mandatory training is kept up to date in line with Trust policies.

Post holder will undertake delegated line management of staff, both informal and formal basis


This advert closes on Monday 30 Mar 2026

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