Urgent Response Nurse

Integrated Care System; Southampton; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare organization is seeking an Urgent Response Nurse to manage a caseload of clients, providing essential health and social care assessments in the community. The ideal candidate will hold a valid Level 1 Nurse registration and possess the skills to work independently while collaborating with a supportive team to enhance patient outcomes. This position emphasizes comprehensive patient care and requires strong communication and assessment skills.

Qualifications

• Must have experience in managing complex and chronic care needs.
• Capable of working independently and within an interdisciplinary team.
• Available for active patient care in community settings.

Responsibilities

• Manage a caseload of clients with varying health and social care needs.
• Conduct comprehensive health and social care assessments.
• Formulate individual management and treatment plans.

Skills

Patient assessment

Communication skills

Time management

Education

Level 1 Registered Nurse with valid up to date professional UK registration

Job description

Go back Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Urgent Response Nurse

The closing date is 17 August 2025

Urgent Response is a fast paced, interdisciplinary community team aimed at preventing unnecessary admissions to hospital and facilitating timely discharges from hospital. This is an integrated health and social care team that visits patients in their own home and completes assessments in ED creating a bridge between the hospital and community. Patients are over 18 with a range of health and social care needs.

The post holder will have day-to-day responsibility for a designated caseload of clients, organising and prioritising their required programmes of treatment, who require nursing, rehabilitation and care management intervention. The role entails working as a lone practitioner in the community, and possibly within ED, managing situations of risk with telephone support, and seeking support and advice with cases from more experienced colleagues when faced with matters outside sphere of responsibility, knowledge, or skills. Generic health and social care assessments, and comprehensive nursing assessments for those with acute, complex, chronic or palliative care needs, are undertaken using the Single Assessment Process, SAP.

Main duties of the job

Daily responsibility for a designated caseload of clients, undertaking comprehensive health, social care and risk assessments, planning own workload, and formulating individualized management and treatment plans using evidence-based practice. Reviews of care plans, discharge planning and making onward referrals. Obtain informed consent from client, and work within agreed guidelines for clients unable to give informed consent.

Work as a lone practitioner managing situations of risk with telephone support. Seek support from more experienced colleagues when faced with matters outside sphere of responsibility, knowledge, or skills.

Use assessment tools to assist with accurate assessment and decision making.

Comply with the Safeguarding Adults Policy of the Trust, ensuring all concerns, incidents and allegations are reported in line with this.

Empower client and carer involvement in care planning to reach optimum level of self-care. Demonstrate ability to communicate and discuss information with clients and relatives. Utilise expert skills to motivate clients and carers to maximize treatment outcomes.

Carry out safe moving and handling practice for clients with a range of dependency needs within the community.

Ensure self and others comply with Trust Clinical Governance requirements.

Work within Code of Conduct (NMC) and Scope of Professional Practice, be accountable for own professional actions at all times, and demonstrate ongoing CPD.

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a newly established organisation, bringing together expertise from across mental health, learning disabilities, community, and physical health services. We are dedicated to delivering compassionate, high-quality, and accessible care to the diverse communities of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.

With over 13,000 dedicated staff working across more than 300 sites, we place patients and staff at the centre of everything we do. Our goal is to create an integrated healthcare system that improves accessibility and ensures more consistent care for patients. By working together, we aim to improve patient outcomes, drive innovation, and meet the unique needs of the populations we serve.

Our Trust unites services from Southern Health, Solent NHS Trust, Isle of Wight NHS Trusts community and mental health teams, as well as Hampshire CAMHS, originally part of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. This transformation enables us to deliver more seamless care across the region, ensuring that patients receive the right support, in the right place, at the right time.

Join us as we embark on this exciting journey to shape the future of healthcare across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. We are deeply committed to our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect, and excellence, and offer outstanding opportunities for career development, training, and collaborative working.

Job responsibilities

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Level 1 Registered Nurse with valid up to date professional UK registration

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.

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust