Overview
Contract Type: Full-time
Salary: a year inclusive of 5% High Cost Area allowance per annum pro rata
Partner Org: Central Surrey Health
Job summary
The Urgent Community Response (UCR) Team aspires to provide a 24-hour/7-day responsive NHS community service. The Band 6 UCR Practitioner can be a Nurse, Allied Health Practitioner or Paramedic. There is the flexibility within the multidisciplinary team to work across days, nights and to do internal rotation, this advert is for predominantly for out of hours, and you can work autonomously, managing patient assessments within the specialty whilst working as part of the larger multidisciplinary team, delivering individualised and personalised direct patient care to patients across North West Surrey in conjunction with the wider Integrated Care System.
Depending on start date, you may be paid on the 24/25 scales with backdated pay being processed once the new pay scales come in to effect.
Please note we do NOT offer UKVI sponsorship, all applicants require right to work in the UK.
Main duties of the job
To work closely with the UCR clinicians and Clinical Lead as well as (ACPs) & Clinical Leads for frailty, Community Nursing, Frailty GPs, Adult Social Care, community services and the third sector to provide fast reactive services for patients to support acute hospital admission avoidance where appropriate with a focus on the 9 Common Critical Conditions- Falls; Decompensation of Frailty; Reduced Function/Decondition/reduced mobility; Urgent equipment provision, Confusion / Delirium, Palliative / EOL crisis support; Urgent Catheter Care, Urgent support for diabetes; Unpaid Carer breakdown.
Please see JD for full details of job role and main duites
About us
CSH Surrey are part of the NHS and are Surreys largest and longest established NHS community services provider, so our 500+ employees get NHS pay and pensions, and also receive the Fringe High-Cost Allowance of 5%.
Our staff enjoy excellent training and development opportunities, including the care certificate, apprenticeships, numeracy and literacy courses, access to the Nursing Associate programme, and a wide variety of management and leadership courses and programmes.
We CARE about our staff though through our values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect and Excellence. Our active employee council called The Voice, elect employee representatives to ensure colleagues’ voices are heard at Board level. CSH is a diverse organisation, if you are a passionate, person-focused individual then apply to join CSH Surrey today!
We welcome candidates from all backgrounds who meet the essential criteria of the job you are applying for and if you require any reasonable adjustments, please contact the named individual for this advert, or our recruitment team.
