Community Nurse

Norfolk Community Health and Care are expanding our Urgent Community Response Service in the West of Norfolk and are looking for Registered Nurses to deliver this service over a 7 day period.

The aim of the service is to enable faster urgent access to services focussing on prevention and admission avoidance. The Role will involve assessments in the patients home from a nursing care and therapy perspective to ensure safe and appropriate intervention. The role is integrated with the whole NCHC urgent community response services.

If you have transferable skills to provide assessments for end-of-life care, crisis intervention, admission avoidance whilst working in an integrated team. The role will also interlink with our improvement strategy to improve our discharge pathways from the acute to community care which will be part of the role.

We can offer in role training and development with a well-established team. the skill set for this role may not be part of your current portfolio, we can offer support and leadership, and are keen to discuss the role with interested candidates. We are aware of the skills shortages across nursing, we are committed to improving our standards of excellence through staff recruitment, management and development.

Main duties of the job

To lead in the delivery of high standards of health care to patients within their ownplace of residence by assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating care in order to prevent avoidable admission to hospital and facilitating early supported discharge.

You will be expected to lead conversations with the wider Urgent Community Response Team, Multidisciplinary Team on a regular basis enabling safe, appropriate and patient centred care to be delivered to this complex patient group.

This role will predominantly involve face to face nursing care and assessment within a patient's usual place of residence and will rotate to the Home First Hub providing triage and other supportive activities as part of the MDT

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