Job overview
An opportunity has arisen for Band 7 Nurse/Paramedic within the Urgent Community Response (UCR)/ Virtual Ward (VW) Team. In this role, you will deliver a rapid 2-hour response to patients experiencing a health crisis, aiming to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions and support care in the community as part of the Virtual Ward core clinical delivery team.
The UCR service is an exciting and rapidly evolving part of the NHS, playing a pivotal role in delivering acute care within the community. Aligned with the NHS Long Term Plan’s focus on enhancing community-based services, UCR is at the forefront of clinical innovation and integrated care. Recent pilot collaborations with the ambulance service—streaming 999 calls directly into UCR—have demonstrated the critical impact our staff have in improving patient outcomes and reducing hospital admissions. These initiatives highlight the essential role UCR plays in shaping the future of urgent care, where service development is fast-paced, dynamic, and deeply patient-centred.
Main duties of the job
Clinical Responsibilities
- Deliver short-term, intensive case management to patients in crisis who are at high risk of unplanned hospital admission, typically for up to 72 hours. Respond promptly to patients requiring urgent assessment, working collaboratively with patients and their support networks to develop management plans that enable safe care at home. Support ambulatory care pathways for conditions such as UTIs, pneumonia, and cellulitis, including the initiation and administration of IV therapies. Work closely with Virtual Ward colleagues and other members of the community integrated team to ensure seamless care and continuity for patients. Play a key role in preventing unnecessary hospital admissions by delivering timely, patient-centred interventions and coordinating care with wider community services.
- Deliver short-term, intensive case management to patients in crisis who are at high risk of unplanned hospital admission, typically for up to 72 hours.
- Respond promptly to patients requiring urgent assessment, working collaboratively with patients and their support networks to develop management plans that enable safe care at home.
- Support ambulatory care pathways for conditions such as UTIs, pneumonia, and cellulitis, including the initiation and administration of IV therapies.
- Work closely with Virtual Ward colleagues and other members of the community integrated team to ensure seamless care and continuity for patients.
- Play a key role in preventing unnecessary hospital admissions by delivering timely, patient-centred interventions and coordinating care with wider community services.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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Person specification
Skills
Essential
- Able to demonstrate effective leadership, communication and organisational skills
- Advanced clinical decision-making skills to support patient centred care
- Advanced clinical skills ie cannulation, administration of IV medication
- Advanced physical assessment skills or willingness to undertake within 12 months
Desirable
- Ability to influence and manage a variety of change management programmes in embracing and implementing change to provide high quality health outcomes
- Knowledge relating to long term conditions
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working as an autonomous practitioner in either an acute or community environment
- Multi-disciplinary and multi agency working
- Proven extensive experience of working with adults/older people
Desirable
- Experience in a Community setting, or gateway area
- bility to interpret blood results
- Experience of working between other health and social care organisations /settings
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree/diploma in paramedic science
- HCPC registration/NMC registration
- Teaching and Assessing qualification Non medical independent prescriber / supplementary prescribing, or willingness to undertake training within 12mths of coming into post
- Evidence of continuing professional development in a relevant area of specialist practice to Masters equivalent level
Desirable
- Community Nursing Qualification / Advanced Nurse Practitioner Qualification
- Relevant Masters level degree
- Trained to interpret microbiology and pathology results
- Case Management
- Advanced physical assessment skills IRMER trained
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This advert is for Urgent Community Response Nurse/Paramedic - B7 - Hastings/Eastbourne with East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust in St Leonards On Sea, South East, England. It is listed as a Band 7 Paramedic role. The advertised salary is £49,387 - £56,515 per annum, pro rata. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 17 Jul 2026.
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