Urgent Community Response Nurse

An opportunity has arisen to develop your role as an urgent community response nurse meeting demands of the New Ambition for Older People-Standard 7 high level of performance indicators preventing hospital admission and expediting hospital discharge from front line service areas.

The post holder will work as part of one of our unplanned, front door services and proactively manage a caseload of patients requiring complex case management in order to prevent hospital admissions and improve patient health outcomes for a limited period of time.Working autonomously, the post holder will have continuing responsibility for proactively monitoring and managing patients on the caseload and will be required to support and collaborate with the wider nursing team with regards to the community caseload.

Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust is an integrated Trust and the only provider of NHS acute care in Walsall, serving a population of 286,700, providing inpatient and outpatient services at the Manor Hospital as well as a wide range of services in the community. Walsall Manor houses the full range of district general hospital services under one roof. The £170 million development was completed in 2010 and the continued upgrading of existing areas ensures the Trust now has a state-of-the-art Critical Care Unit, Neonatal Unit, Obstetric Theatre, and Integrated Assessment Unit facilities. Work is also well underway on its multi-million pound new Urgent and Emergency Care Centre which will house a new Emergency Department (including Children's Emergency Department), co-located Paediatric Assessment Unit, Acute Medical Unit and Urgent Care Centre. This is scheduled for completion this year.

We support flexible working for all employees and prospective applicants.

Any settled workers meeting the requirements must be offered the position in preference to any non-resident candidates meeting the requirements, unless the role falls under a PhD-level code, in which case sponsorship may be attained.