Community Nurse - UCR

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Fareham; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an Urgent Community Response Nurse (UCR) to deliver advanced community care within the Southeast Division. You will assess health needs, perform clinical reviews, and manage patients in their homes via our virtual ward, contributing to reduced hospital admissions.

Experience in community care is desirable, with full training provided and ongoing post-qualification courses including diagnostics and independent nurse

Qualifications

• BSc Nursing or RN registered with NMC.
• Practice assessor/supervisor and post-registration specialist training.
• Access Course / Diploma in Health Care Studies; driving licence is required.

Responsibilities

• Manage a defined community caseload via integrated care team.
• Coordinate and delegate work ensuring timely referrals and care plans.
• Aim to prevent hospital admission and support timely discharge to the community.

Education

BSc Nursing or RN registered with NMC

Practice assessor/Supervisor

Post-registration specialist training

Access Course / Diploma in Health Care Studies

Right to work in the UK

Tools

SystmOne

RiO

Job description

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Community Nurse - UCR

The closing date is 08 November 2026

This is an exciting opportunity to work in a fast paced and dynamic team, within the Southeast Division of Hampshire and IOW Trust. We have the opportunity for a 37.5-hour position for an Urgent Community Response Nurse, contributing to the prevention of hospital admissions under a strong and robust frailty model.

We all know hospital is not the best place for a crisis and as a UCR Nurse, you can help to ensure patients are kept safe and looked after in their own home on our very own virtual ward. You will be responsible for their assessment of health needs, carrying out clinical review and ensuring they are safely managed in the community.

If you have existing nursing skills which you feel are not used to their full potential, and you feel your job is repetitive with the same tasks every day, look further at this role, no two days are the same, you get to use your true autonomy and advanced clinical skills, work collaboratively with HCP partners, and this role provides a true variation of demand, it will make you utilise skills you maybe don't get to use and expand your knowledge and skills base. Every day you will look forward to coming to work, knowing you are preventing a hospital admission and supporting someone to remain at home.

Experience in community care is desirable, however full training can be provided, and ongoing post Reg training is available including the physical assessment course, diagnostics and independent nurse prescribing.

Main duties of the job

Working within professional guidelines and accountability, the post-holder will have responsibility for the management of a defined community caseload (via Nursing, Physiotherapy or Occupational Therapy interventions) for a group of GP Practices as part of the Integrated Care Team.

The post holder will have responsibility for managing co-ordinating and delegating work ensuring referrals are dealt with according to clinical need, holistic assessments and care plans are recorded in line with Trust and Professional record keeping standards and clinical care at all times meets acceptable standards of patient safety and quality outcomes.

The post holder will be required to work with a high degree of autonomy and professional accountability. A primary aim of the role is to prevent unnecessary admission of patients to an acute hospital and support timely discharge into the community. The post holder will also have a responsibility for re-enablement, rehabilitation, health protection and promotion programmes that improve and reduce inequalities.

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence

Job responsibilities

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Qualifications

• BSc Nursing or RN currently registered with NMC.
• Practice assessor/supervisor.
• Post registration, specialist training relevant to speciality.
• Current (UK/EU) Driving Licence and access to own vehicle for work purposes is required
• At present, the Trust is unable to offer Skilled Worker visa sponsorship for this post. Applicants must have the right to work in the UK at the time of application
• Access Course / Diploma in Health Care Studies
• Post Registration Qualifications

Experience

• Experienced in developing care plans.
• Experienced in developing and delivering care and clinical interventions to patients.
• Experience of Multi-Disciplinary Team working.
• Experience of teaching, training and / or supervision.
• Evidence of recent CPD.
• Evidence of developing policy, guidelines contributing to management of resources.
• Ability to prioritise workload and work autonomously, instruct and direct others; work is managed, not supervised.
• Knowledge of working with students.
• Knowledge of Patient Systems (SystmOne and RiO)

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

£32,073 to £39,043 a year. Please note for part time hours the salary will be pro rata