Senior Rapid Response Nurse

East London NHS Foundation Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 56,000; Full time

Job summary

A London-based healthcare provider is seeking a Senior Community Nurse to work full-time in Tower Hamlets. The role focuses on supporting hospital discharges and delivering high-quality care to older patients. Candidates must be registered nurses with relevant experience in acute and community services. This exciting opportunity requires collaboration with various health services to ensure smooth transitions of care. Competitive salary of £46,419 to £55,046 annually is offered, reflecting the importance of the role.

Qualifications

• Experience working independently in a healthcare setting.
• Ability to communicate effectively with patients and colleagues.
• Understanding of long-term conditions management and rehabilitation.

Responsibilities

• Identify patients at risk of delayed discharge.
• Collaborate with community health services to avoid readmissions.
• Provide clinical leadership and support to junior colleagues.

Skills

Communication

Teamwork

Clinical leadership

Assessment skills

Problem solving

Education

Registered Nurse with NMC registration

Independent Prescriber

Non-Medical Prescriber V300

Nurse Formulary prescriber V100

Physical assessment / First Contact Course

Tools

Emis

Job description

Band 6 - Senior Community Nurse - Tower Hamlets, London

Hours: Full-Time (37.5 hours)

Are you passionate about making a difference for older people and supporting safe, timely discharges from hospital? Do you want to be part of an innovative, integrated service working at the interface of acute and community care?

We are looking for an experienced and motivated B6 Community Nurse to join our Integrated In-Reach and Older People Service, helping to deliver high quality of, person centred, care for patients living with frailty, complex health care needs, and social care challenges.

This exciting role is central to supporting hospital flow, avoid unnecessary admissions, and ensuring patients return safely to their home or community setting with the right care in place.

This is role is ideal for a dynamic, forward thinking nurse with experience in acute, community, or older people's services. You will be confident working across boundaries, enjoy problem solving, and thrive in a fast-paced environment where you can make a real impact on patient outcomes.

Main duties of the job

• Work proactively on hospital wards to identify medially fit patients at risk of delayed discharge and coordinate timely, safe transitions of care
• Use advance assessment and frailty and falls screening skills to support older people with complex needs, ensuring personalised care planning.
• Collaborate closely with community health services, social care, primary care, and care homes to streamline pathways and avoid readmissions.
• Provide clinical leadership, education, and support to junior colleagues, care staff, and multidisciplinary teams.
• Contribute to service development and the wider frailty and admission avoidance pathway, ensuring best practice and innovation..
• This is borough wide cover.
• To introduce and enable self management and self care.
• To work as part of a team ensuring all patients have a safe handover to the professional and team to complete the care plan and measure the outcomes.

About us

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

Job responsibilities

For a more detailed job description and person specification please see attached JD & PS.

If you have any questions then please do not hesitate to contact the recruiting manager.

Person Specification

Education/qualification/training

• Registered Nurse with evidence of current NMC registration
• Independent Prescriber (or willingness to undertake)
• Physical assessment / First Contact Course (willingness to undertake)
• An awareness of current developments in Primary and Community Care
• Non-Medical Prescriber V300
• Nurse Formulary prescriber V100

Experience

• Experience of working independently, unsupervised providing high quality, evidenced based care.
• Able to demonstrate ability to communicate effectively at all levels
• Able to demonstrate ability to communicate with patients in an empathetic manner, adapting strategies to meet their needs.
• Able to work as part of a team.
• Understanding of rehabilitation and models of care.
• Understanding of the Long Term Conditions management
• Experience of managing a team within the health care setting
• Experience of working in older people including chronic disease management of long-term condition in acute, community, or intermediate care
• Ability to undertake clinical audit and evaluate, analyse and interpret data working collaboratively and able to produce required reports

Knowledge and skills

• Understanding and knowledge of the complex needs and long term conditions management.
• Good knowledge of safeguarding processes and able to escalate issues around vulnerable adults
• Sound knowledge and competence in IT and clinical systems for example Emis.
• Knowledge of community nursing practice and current legislation
• Knowledge of information governance and the responsibility
• Knowledge of HR process for line management of staff
• Knowledge of current professional issues facing nursing

Other

• Full UK Driving Licence

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.

£46,419 to £55,046 a yearPer annum inc HCA