Nurse Practitioner - Urgent Crisis Reponses (UCRS)

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust; Tendring; On-site; GBP 43,000 - 58,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working options

NHS Pension scheme

27 days annual leave on commencement

Staff Health and Wellbeing programme

NHS discounts

Job summary

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced Nurse Practitioner to join the Urgent Community Response Service (UCRS). You will deliver urgent care in patients' homes and care homes, applying advanced clinical skills to assess, diagnose, prescribe, treat and manage a range of urgent needs.

The role emphasizes autonomy, rapid assessments within two hours, independent prescribing, and preventing hospital admissions, with collaboration with GPs and community teams.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse Prescriber qualification/registration.
• Experience in urgent care or community-based roles is desirable.
• Ability to work autonomously with clinical leadership.

Responsibilities

• Undertake rapid response assessments within two hours of referral.
• Assess, diagnose and manage urgent/complex presentations in community settings.
• Independently prescribe appropriate treatments and interventions.
• Deliver short-term, intensive support to prevent hospital admission and facilitate recovery at home.
• Manage patients with frailty and multiple long-term conditions.

Skills

Advanced clinical assessment

Independent prescribing

Autonomy

Clinical decision-making

Home-based care

Education

Nurse Practitioner qualification

Job description

Are you an experienced Registered Nurse Prescriber looking for your next challenge?

The Urgent Community Response Service (UCRS) at ESNEFT is seeking a highly motivated and skilled nurse to join our dynamic and innovative team. This is an exciting opportunity to deliver high-quality urgent care in patients' homes and care home settings, helping people receive the right care at the right time while avoiding unnecessary hospital admissions.

Working within our multidisciplinary team, you will use your advanced clinical skills to assess, diagnose, prescribe, treat and manage patients with a wide range of urgent healthcare needs. No two days are the same, making this an ideal role for an experienced clinician who thrives on autonomy, clinical decision-making and providing outstanding patient-centred care.

As a Nurse Practitioner Within UCRS, You Will

• Undertake rapid response assessments within two hours of referral.
• Assess, diagnose and manage urgent and complex clinical presentations in community settings.
• Independently prescribe appropriate treatments and interventions.
• Deliver short-term, intensive support to prevent hospital admission and facilitate recovery at home.
• Manage patients with frailty, multiple long-term conditions, acute deterioration and palliative or end-of-life care needs.
• Provide expert clinical advice and support to patients, carers and healthcare professionals.
• Work collaboratively with GPs, therapists, community teams, social care and acute services.
• Contribute to service development, quality improvement and clinical leadership within the team.

A Car Driver Is Essential.

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients’ own homes.

We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what’s widely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.

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For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Kelly Carrington Job title: Operational Lead for UCRs Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07919527725