Community Nurse - Out of Hours | Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust

Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust; Norwich; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Norwich seeks an enthusiastic nurse to join the Urgent Community Response Team. This role involves preventing unnecessary hospital admissions, assessing and supporting patients in crisis, and advocating for patient choice. The successful candidate will need a Registered Nurse qualification and experience in community or palliative care. This position offers flexible working opportunities and requires attendance during nights and weekends.

Benefits

Flexible working patterns

Inclusive work environment

Supportive team atmosphere

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with proven community experience.
• Ability to assess and implement care for complex patients.
• Experience in palliative and end-of-life care.

Responsibilities

• Prevent unnecessary admissions to hospital as part of the community team.
• Assess and prescribe care pathways for patients in crisis.
• Facilitate choice and patient empowerment.

Skills

Community nursing experience

Patient advocacy

Triage skills

Education

Registered Nurse qualification

Job description

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.

To 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 facilitating early supported discharge.

You will be expected to 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.

This role will predominantly involve 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 Multidisciplinary Team (MDT).

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.

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.

Apply now to join an organisation that has been awarded an 'Outstanding' rating by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), the highest possible rating and the first stand-alone NHS community trust in the country to be awarded the title.

Main Duties & Responsibilities

• To work within the Urgent Community Response Team to prevent unnecessary admission to hospital.
• To assess and prescribe care pathways for patients in a crisis situation with long term conditions, the frail & elderly, palliative and end of life care and/or rehabilitation needs, to achieve quality of life and independence where possible, with support from Senior colleagues within the wider Urgent Community Response Team.
• To act as the patients advocate, facilitating choice and patient empowerment.
• To provide evidence based clinical/therapeutic interventions based on “best practice”.
• To work within the Urgent Community Response Team to support early discharge from hospital.
• To work with all health care professionals, and statutory/non statutory agencies to provide a seamless, integrated service to our service users.
• To triage and allocate referrals on a rotational basis for the Urgent Community Response Team.

This advert closes on Monday 20 Oct 2025