Urgent community response nurse/paramedic - band 7 Hastings

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for Urgent Community Response Team previously known as crisis response team (UCR) Band 7 Nurse/Paramedic  based at Hastings.  You will provide an urgent 2 hour response to patients in crisis and where an unplanned admission can be avoided.

This job initially will be with UCR, then shift pattern is subject to  change when UCR and Integrated Night Service (INS) merge together to become 24 hour team.

Advert

You will provide case management and intensive support to patients in crisis, at high risk of unplanned admission for up to 72 hours and also required to work as a team with Virtual ward staff. You will support the UCR admission avoidance sections of the ambulatory care pathways for UTI, pneumonia and cellulitis including the initiation and administration of IVs and you will provide support to the prevention of unplanned hospital admissions, responding to patients who require urgent assessments and in collaboration with the patient and community integrated team, set up management plans to enable the patient to stay at home where possible.

Working for our organisation

We are proud to provide ‘Outstanding’ care and be a great place to work

We provide safe, compassionate and high quality care to half a million people living or visiting East Sussex. We are one of the largest organisations in East Sussex, the only integrated provider of acute and community care in Sussex. Our extensive services are provided by  7000 + members of staff working from acute hospitals in Hastings and Eastbourne, three community hospitals in Bexhill, Rye and Uckfield, over 100 community sites and in people’s own  homes.

In 2020 the Care Quality Commission rated us as ‘Good’ overall, and ‘Outstanding’ for being caring and effective. The Conquest Hospital and our Community Services are rated ‘Outstanding’. Eastbourne DGH rated ‘Good’.

In 2020, the Trust launched its ambitious ‘Building for our Future’ programme. This once in a lifetime programme aims to repair, redevelop and expand our hospitals, transforming the environment in which we provide care for generations to come.