We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and experienced nurse to join the Out of Hours Teams based at Norwich Community Hospital and St James’ Kings Lynn.
The Out of Hours team is an Urgent Response Community Nursing Service working overnight in Norfolk and Waveney. Our Aim is to avoid admissions to the acute setting by providing urgent community nursing care.
We cover all areas in Norfolk and Waveney, in teams, every night with the coordination team based at Norwich Community Hospital. We work in partnership with East Coast Community Healthcare to deliver care across Great Yarmouth and Waveney.
To contribute to the delivery of high standards of health care to patients within their own place 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 support conversations with the wider Urgent Community Response (UCR) Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) 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, with an element of Triage and allocation for the Urgent Community Response Team on a rota basis as well as other supportive activities as part of the Multidisciplinary Team (MDT).
This is a 7 day a week service and some weekend working will be expected. Hours of service delivery are, 8pm-8am, 365 days per year.
Norfolk Community Health & Care NHS Trust is committed to continuing to create a modern and inclusive work environment.
As part of this commitment we actively promote flexible working opportunities where possible, to meet the needs and wishes of our workforce to maintain and improve their wellbeing.
The trust offers a range of flexibility, including flexible working patterns, and we would encourage you to discuss this with the recruiting manager before or during the application process if this would interest you.
We welcome applications from people who share our values and can help us deliver outstanding care in our local community.
Apply now to join an organisation that has been awarded an ’Outstanding’ rating by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), the highest possible rating and the first stand-alone NHS community trust in the country to be awarded the title.
If you are aged 16-30 and not currently in education, employment or training, our colleagues at the Norfolk and Waveney Integrated Care Board (supported by the Princes Trust), can provide application and interview coaching. To request this support please contact NWICB.Careers@nhs.net
Main Duties & Responsibilities
Key Areas of Responsibility
To respond to unplanned care and prevent admission to hospital.
To assess, prescribed and deliver care packages for patients, e.g. with long term conditions, palliative care and rehabilitation needs, to achieve quality of life and independence where possible.
To work within the integrated team to facilitate early discharge from hospital
To work within the integrated team to prevent unnecessary admission to Hospital.
To work with all health care professionals, and statutory/non statutory agencies to provide a seamless, integrated service to our service users.
Engage with mobile working.

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