UCR Staff Nurse - Bridgnorth

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust; Bridgnorth; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 39,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bank shifts available

Job summary

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is seeking a Registered Nurse (Band 5) for the Bridgnorth locality. The role is to deliver compassionate, evidence-based nursing care within the Urgent Community Response and Virtual Wards service.

You will work as part of a multidisciplinary team to manage acutely unwell patients at home, with access to bank shifts and a 37.5-hour week. The post requires NHS experience, RGN qualification, and current NMC registration.

Qualifications

• NMC registered nurse with current professional registration.
• Experience in NHS/community health setting is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality nursing care in the community and home settings.
• Develop and implement care plans in partnership with the multidisciplinary team.
• Contribute to the seven-day service model within Bridgnorth locality.

Education

RGN

NMC Registered

Job description

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Main area UCR Staff Nurse Grade NHS AfC: Band 5 Contract Permanent Hours

• Full time
• Flexible working

37.5 hours per week (Bank also available) Job ref 825-8346337-OPS

Site Bridgnorth Community Hospital Town Bridgnorth Salary £32,073 - £39,043 per annum/pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 06/11/2026 23:59

We recognise that applicants may use Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to help build their application. However, all information provided must be an accurate reflection of your skills, knowledge, qualifications and experience. Candidates should be prepared to discuss and evidence the content of their application during the recruitment process.

We believe that compassionate care sits at the heart of everything we do. Every member of our team — clinical or non-clinical — plays a vital role in ensuring that patients, families, and colleagues are treated with dignity, empathy, and respect at all times.

We expect all staff to demonstrate compassion not only through their words, but through their actions: by listening attentively, communicating clearly and kindly, and recognising individual needs, feelings, and circumstances of those in our care.

Effective communication is central to safe and high-quality healthcare. We value colleagues who take the time to understand others, explain information in a meaningful way, and respond to concerns with patience and understanding.

By joining our team, you are committing to uphold these values — ensuring that every patient feels heard, respected, and valued, and that compassion is embedded in every interaction, every day.

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin Urgent Community Response (UCR) & Virtual Wards service as a Staff Nurse. The post will form part of a seven day service based within the Bridgnorth locality team.

The service provides patients who are experiencing an acute change in their health, with a safe and effective alternative to hospital admission, supported by a mixture of face to face visits and digital technology.

We are looking for a Registered Nurse who shares our passion for providing excellent quality of care and can help deliver a recommended and agreed treatment/care plan to service users in their own home. The post holder will have full access to the Multidisciplinary Team including consultant, GP, Pharmacist, Nurses, Therapists, and Health Care Support Workers.

Bank only is also available.

Main duties of the job

As a service which is at the forefront of the NHS Long Term Plan agenda to develop Urgent Community Response services and improve our local system responsiveness to managing community health crisis response services, the role on offer represents an ideal opportunity for a Registered Staff Nurse to join the established Multidisciplinary Team and continue to help shape our future.

Working alongside medics, social workers, therapists, and in partnership with GPs, Shropdoc, 111 WMAS, CCC and other healthcare professionals your role will be to ensure the continuation of a seamless service to avoid unnecessary hospital admissions.

The successful applicant will require the appropriate skills and knowledge outlined in the person specification, and be registered with the NMC, as well as share the Trusts vision to provide assessment and delivery of comprehensive, holistic, evidence-based nursing and care support for the management of acutely unwell patients referred to the Shropshire UCR.

Working for our organisation

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.

Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the Job Description and Person Specification attached for further information on the role.

Training & Qualifications

• RGN
• NMC Registered

Experience

• Previous community experience
• Previous NHS experience
• Experience of working in a multi disciplinary / multi-agency health / social care environment
• Experience and knowledge of IT basic administration systems including Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel etc)

Knowledge and Skills

• Ability to demonstrate a level of English language and grammar commensurate with writing in service user case notes
• Ability to carry out comprehensive holistic nursing assessment
• Awareness of current community nursing skills
• Awareness of changing healthcare factors influencing change

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust believes in fairness, equity and above all, values diversity in all aspects of its work, as a provider of health services and as an employer of people. We provide visa sponsorship to applicants who require this in order to have the right to work in the UK, providing that the role you have been offered meets the requirements set by the Home Office.

Applicants requiring a Skilled Worker Visa (such as data analysts, IT and finance professionals, etc) will need to meet the salary threshold of £41,700 or the 'going rate' for the job you will be doing (whichever is higher). For a limited number of clinical posts ( listed here ), applications to the Health and Care Visa route will need to meet the national pay scale for their role or the minimum salary threshold of £25,000 (whichever is higher ). We advise that you check that the role you wish to apply for meets the requirement for sponsorship before applying.

Further guidance on eligible roles can be found here.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.