Nursing Associate/Practitioner | Provide CIC

Provide CIC; Chelmsford; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 31,000; Full time

Job summary

Provide CIC is recruiting a Nursing Associate/Practitioner to join its Urgent Community Response Team in Chelmsford. You will deliver high-quality, patient-centred care in people’s homes, helping avoid hospital admissions and supporting independence.

The role involves comprehensive home assessments, venepuncture, catheter care and managing acute episodes, with training provided and opportunities to work autonomously within a multidisciplinary team.

Qualifications

• Qualified Nursing Associate/Practitioner with community care experience.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• Experience in venepuncture and catheter care preferred.

Responsibilities

• Carry out comprehensive assessments in patients' own homes.
• Implement and evaluate individual care plans under supervision.
• Maintain clear communication with patients, relatives, and team.
• Deliver acute care including venepuncture and catheter care.
• Support UCRT team to ensure holistic home-based care.

Skills

Nursing

Home care

Clinical assessments

Venepuncture

Catheter care

Job description

Nursing Associate/Practitioner | Provide CIC

Company: Provide CIC

Salary: £28,392 - £31,157 dependent on experience

Hours: Full-time

Location: Chelmsford, CM2 5PF

Job type: Permanent

Posting date: 28 Sept 2026

Closing date: 28 Oct 2026

This advert closes on Monday 12 Oct 2026

Summary

Are you an enthusiastic and compassionate Nursing Associate/Practitioner looking for a rewarding role where you can make a real difference? Join our Urgent Community Response Team (UCRT) and help deliver high-quality, patient-centred care in the community, supporting people to remain safely in their own homes and avoiding hospital admissions.

UCRT is a 7-day service providing rapid assessment and treatment for patients experiencing a health crisis in their own homes, including nursing and residential care homes. Working closely with partners across Mid and South Essex—we provide holistic assessments within two hours of referral and deliver timely, coordinated care.

As a Nursing Associate/Practitioner, you will work both independently and as part of a skilled multidisciplinary team, assessing and treating patients in their own homes. Your role will include clinical assessments, monitoring observations, venepuncture, catheter care, supporting patients following falls, and managing acute episodes of illness. You will also carry out basic equipment assessments to support our Allied Health Professional colleagues, with full training provided.

This is an exciting opportunity for a proactive clinician who enjoys autonomous working and is passionate about delivering excellent community-based care.

UCRT operates 7 days a week between 8:00am and 10:00pm. The role includes weekend and bank holiday working on a shared rota.

Responsibilities

• To carry out comprehensive assessments in patients' own homes.
• Implement and evaluate individual care plans, utilizing practical and theoretical knowledge under the direction of a registered practitioner.
• Maintain excellent communication with patients, relatives and members of the team demonstrating a variety of communication skills in accordance to the patients needs.
• To forward plan where possible for the necessary equipment required.
• Deliver acute care, including simple reviews of patients on the UCRT caseload, monitoring observations, venepuncture, catheter care/catheterisation, assisting patients that have fallen with appropriate equipment and supporting patients during an episode of illness within their own home.
• Provide support to the members of UCRT which include nurses, allied health professionals and healthcare support workers to ensure that holistic assessments are completed whilst working collaboratively with the team to facilitate the treatment of patients within their own home.
• Work with minimal supervision, adhering to organisational policies and procedures and in line with their scope of practice competency, while continuing to develop in the role through the acquisition of further skills, knowledge and competencies to be determined by the needs of the patients, service and team.
• Deliver fully integrated, holistic care and support to ensure people are safely managed at home.

Company

Provide is a Community Interest Company (social enterprise). We deliver a broad range of health and social care services in the community, and are committed to making sure that they are safe, responsive and of high quality. Provide is owned by its employees and has primarily social objectives. Any profits we make are reinvested into the local community or back into delivering services.

We work from a variety of community settings, such as community hospitals, community clinics, schools, nursing homes and primary care settings, as well as within people’s homes to provide more than 40 services to children, families and adults across Essex, Dorset, East Anglia and the North of England.

A highly respected, award winning health and social care provider. We expect our staff to demonstrate and uphold our values at all times:

Vision: Transforming Lives

Values: Care, Innovation and Compassion

Mission: An ambitious, employee owned social enterprise, growing in size and influence. We transform lives by treating, caring and educating people.

Equality & Diversity

Provide is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills, proud to have LGBT+, Ethnic Minority and Men’s Networks.

We welcome applicants from underrepresented groups. If you have the skills and experience for the job, please apply regardless of your background.

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme