Urgent Community Response Clinical Assessor

Integrated Care System; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional health service provider is seeking full-time Clinical Assessors to join their Urgent Community Response team in South Nottinghamshire. The role requires collaborative work to respond to patients in crisis, utilizing your clinical expertise to design recovery programs and improve patient outcomes. Ideal candidates are experienced in nursing or as allied health professionals, with skills in communication and problem-solving. This position offers a salary range of £38,682 to £46,580 per annum.

Benefits

27 days of annual leave plus bank holidays

Health and wellbeing package

Flexible working opportunities

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse or Allied Health Professional with relevant clinical experience.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Experience in crisis management and providing care in community settings.

Responsibilities

• Respond to patient crises and conduct timely assessments.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to develop care plans.
• Provide compassionate and realistic support to vulnerable patients.

Skills

Communication skills

Problem solving

Adaptability

Compassionate care

Education

RGN or AHP registered

Degree level qualification

Tools

Stethoscope

Job description

Go back Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Urgent Community Response Clinical Assessor

The closing date is 17 August 2025

The Urgent Community Response (UCR) Team is recruiting!

We are currently recruiting one new full time clinical assessors to be based at Parkhouse in Gedling!

Are you an experienced nurse, physiotherapist, OT or paramedic? Then we would love to hear from you!

This is role is based across the whole of South Nottinghamshire (Gedling, Broxtowe and Rushcliffe).

Be at the heart of Urgent Response in Nottinghamshire and join our highly valued and progressive service...we have new investment and we are growing!

Urgent Community Response (UCR) provides holistic person-cantered care with the aim of preventing unnecessary hospital admissions. The team enables individuals to increase independence, improve health outcomes and reduce unnecessary admissions to hospital, long term care and minimizing social care packages.

UCR works in close collaboration with EMAS, primary care, social care and community health partners, as well as care and lifeline providers and more!

This is achieved through timely assessment, interventions, rehabilitation, management of long-term and life limiting conditions, and partnership working across the health and social care communities.

All staff within the service work in collaboration with the patients

Main duties of the job

Urgent Community Response is an NHS England national service which aims to review patients in their usual place of residence within 2hours to reduce the risk of a potentially avoidable admission.

The team is incredibly collaborative and compassionate. As a part of the team you can expect to be supported by your colleagues in your work, supported to extend your clinical reasoning and practical clinical skills to enhance your career and have your talent nurtured.

The team enables individuals to increase independence and improve health outcomes by designing programs for recovery and self-care management through timely assessments, interventions, rehabilitation and management of long-term and life limiting conditions working in collaboration with the patient, their carer, and other statutory and voluntary organisations/agencies and are vital in transforming community health services, ensuring high quality care is provided both now and into the future based around the needs of our patients - together we all make a difference.

The service operates 7-days a week from 08.00 - 22.00hrs.

About us

#TeamNottsHC comprises over 11,000 dedicated colleagues who #MakeADifference every day. We deliver intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic, and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, and South Yorkshire. Our care is provided from over 200 sites, spanning community locations, acute settings, and secure environments, including prisons.

We are one of the largest mental health and community Trusts in the East Midlands and one of Nottinghamshire's biggest employers. We also host national and regional services, such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.

We offer a variety of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) groups, the Green Champions network, the Freedom to Speak Up network, the Health and Wellbeing Champions network, and the Menopause Champions network. These networks play a vital role in supporting our diverse workforce and promoting a culture of inclusivity.

The health and wellbeing of our colleagues is a top priority. We invest significantly in this through our in-house occupational health and staff counselling services, supported by a dedicated Health and Wellbeing team.

The Trust is committed to reducing its carbon emissions, with a specialised Energy and Environmental team working to ensure compliance with environmental legislation, enhance our environmental performance, and achieve our net-zero commitment

Job responsibilities

Don't miss out on this rare opportunity to join UCR. Building on our success over our first two years we have an exciting opportunity for 1 new Clinical Assessors to join the team.

We are currently recruiting one full time clinical assessors to be based out of our Parkhouse office

Clinical Assessors respond to patients in crisis. This is exciting and varied work helping our most vulnerable clients when they need us the most. If you enjoy problem solving and making a big impact to people, then this could be the role for you.

We have 3 main bases of Cotgrave the Hub in Rushcliffe, Park House in Gedling and Stapleford Care Centre in Broxtowe.

These posts are ideal for nurses, physiotherapists, occupational therapists and other AHPs to join a new and innovative service that focusses on development, innovation and compassionate care.

We are looking to recruit motivated, caring, compassionate and experienced Registered Nurses in Adult Nursing or HCPC Professionals to join this new and exciting service within the South of Nottingham, covering the localities of Rushcliffe, Broxtowe and Gedling, working as an accountable and autonomous practitioner alongside the integrated care teams and acute Trusts to support discharge and prevent hospital admission.

We are committed & passionate about promoting health, well-being and independence. We are a values-based Trust and are looking for dedicated and enthusiastic clinicians who believe in the provision of patient-centred care.

You will work in a supportive multi-disciplinary clinical team with a dedicated focus of excellent patient care and innovation. Providing urgent response assessments and facilitation of discharge from the acute provider, focusing on the hospital avoidance agenda and 2-hour/2-day guidelines and promoting flow through the system.

We are a wide team of many different clinical levels and skills: everyone has a role to play and everyone is highly valued. We love to grow talent and foster innovation from within our team....so if you have ideas, are highly motivated, flexible and open to new experiences and new ways of working...we want to hear from you.

You will liaise and coordinate services closely with other health and social care providers to enable recovery from illness, promote health and wellbeing and promote self-care, fostering collaborative partnerships with local hospitals, EMAS, NHS111,GP's and our community nursing and therapy colleagues, along withLocal Authorities and private providers.

As a Clinical Assessor, you will: -

• Analyse and develop treatment plans working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary framework and to modify as necessary taking a key lead role as indicated, providing compassionate, realistic and timely support to a diverse patient group and their families.
• Undertake both holistic assessment of health and social care needs and top to toe physical health checks, incorporating the use of a stethoscope, percussion and palpation techniques. Provision of urgent equipment and safety netting advise.
• Prioritise factors involved in the clients presenting condition through clinical reasoning based on knowledge of current professional opinion, clients prognosis and other physical, social, emotional and mental health issues.
• Manage a caseload of patients with moderate to complex needs with supervision and guidance as necessary from more senior clinical staff. Supporting our patients with their rehabilitation and reablement, within the places they call home, that enables them to live their optimum life, become self-caring and regain their independence with their health needs to avoid and reduce future hospital admissions.
• Demonstrate excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to be adaptable, reliable, resourceful and approachable, evidencing high levels of personal and clinical credibility, being able to instantly establish effective working relationships with patients, staff and key holders internal and external to the Trust.

You must be a Registered Nurse (RGN or RN (Adult)) or Allied health Professional,with demonstrable relevant clinical experience and evidence of continuing professional development.

A full UK driving licence and vehicle for business use is required for this post; however reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled individuals in line with the Equality Act 2010

For a full range of role responsibilities and duties please refer to the attached job description - please ensure you demonstrate the essential criteria in the Job Description and Person Specification in order to be shortlisted for interview.

We have a depth and breadth of services and teams within the Community Health Services Division of Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust with many different clinical levels and skills: everyone has a role to play and everyone is highly valued. We love to grow talent and foster innovation from within our team....so if you have ideas, are highly motivated, flexible and open to new experiences and new ways of working...we want to hear from you.

Why choose us?

• Annual leave of 27 days plus bank holidays (this will increase up to 33 days depending on NHS service and in accordance with A4C terms and conditions)
• Flexible working and job share opportunities
• Promotion of a healthy work life balance
• Salary sacrifice schemes e.g., public transport loans, cycle schemes
• Free on-site parking (dependent on site)
• An extensive health and wellbeing package including Occupational Health, Physiotherapy and Staff Counselling services
• Support for carers

Further information regarding NottsHC employee benefits can be found on our websitewww.nottinghamshirehealthcare.nhs.uk

If you want to be the Clinical Assessor that leads and implements this exciting new service, that makes a difference to the population of South Nottingham, then we look forward to receiving your application.

Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. The cost of the DBS application is £26.40 (standard) or £54.40 (enhanced), this cost will be deducted from your salary over the first 2 months of employment.

You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. An annual fee of £16 per year applies.

Person Specification

Contractual

• A full UK driving licence and vehicle for business use is required for this post; however reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled individuals in line with the Equality Act 2010.

Qualifications

• RGN/AHP registered with accountable professional body (NMC or HCPC)
• Degree level qualification or equivalent knowledge and experience in a health-related subject.
• Evidence of Continuous Professional Development
• Management or leadership qualification

Knowledge and skill

• Across a range of Patient conditions, including common elderly complaints e.g. frailty, falls, COPD, Hypertension, heart failure, UTI - acute on chronic illness.
• Knowledge and ability to complete a comprehensive physical assessment and use NEWS2/SBAR.
• Ability to respond appropriately to a complex scenario, using a combination of intuition, assertiveness and clinical reasoning to achieve the best patient outcome.
• Experience of working with acutely unwell patients
• Competent with the use of a stethoscope
• Experience prescribing a variety of equipment
• An understanding of the national UCR guidance

Values and Behaviours

• All colleagues are expected to demonstrate that they act in line with Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Values: Trust Honesty Respect Compassion Teamwork
• All colleagues are expected to demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) and how it applies to their role. The Trust's expectations are highlighted within our EDI Policy, and associated EDI and Human Rights legislation

Physical Requirements

• Has the physical ability to perform the full range of duties

Experience

• Substantial post registration in a relevant clinical setting including the acute and the community
• Experience of clinical crisis management
• Experience of managing acute episodes of care, cellulitis, urinary tract infection (UTI), falls, functional, mobility, cognitive impairment.
• Experience of providing care within a community setting with an understanding of different service provisions
• Experience of working collaboratively with other providers to improve patient outcomes
• Experience working within a UCR/rapid response/crisis team
• At least 3 years experience post registration
• Experience of clinical audit

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.

Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

South Nottinghamshire

Parkhouse Health and Social Care Centre, 61 Burton Rd, Carlton, Nottingham

£38,682 to £46,580 a yearper annum (pro rate for part time)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

186-734-25-GH-A

Job locations

South Nottinghamshire

Parkhouse Health and Social Care Centre, 61 Burton Rd, Carlton, Nottingham