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Rapid Response Nurse (Band 7)

Temporary
Job summary
BANK - Band 7 - Rapid Response Nurse
Join CLCH's Integrated Wandsworth and Merton Urgent Community Response Service

Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) is seeking an experienced and motivated Band 7 Rapid Response Nurse to join our dedicated and supportive Urgent Community Response Service on a Bank/Temporary Staffing basis.

This is an exciting opportunity to play a vital role in delivering high-quality, patient-centred care within the community, supporting individuals to remain safely at home while reducing unnecessary hospital admissions and facilitating timely hospital discharge.

About the Role
As a Band 7 Rapid Response Nurse, you will provide skilled nursing care to patients in their own homes and other community settings, delivering rapid response, rehabilitative and post-acute care to vulnerable adults. Working as part of a multidisciplinary team, you will use your specialist knowledge and clinical expertise to carry out holistic assessments and develop short-term programmes of evidence-based nursing care.

The service operates 7 days a week, 365 days a year, from 08:00 to 20:00, including weekends and bank holidays.

Main duties of the job
  • To provide skilled, effective and evidence-based nursing care to patients in a variety of community settings.
  • Assess referrals to the service, prioritising and responding appropriately based on clinical need and urgency, and within agreed service timescales.
  • To use enhanced skills and knowledge to assess physical and psycho social needs and develop a comprehensive and concordant plan of care with patients, carers and the wider Multidisciplinary Team as needed.
  • To make risk assessments, establishing the safety or otherwise of patients' ability to stay at home, or return home safely from another care setting, providing and arranging necessary nursing and supportive packages.
  • Provide autonomous clinical care to a range of patients presenting with undifferentiated, undiagnosed and/or complex health needs and long-term conditions.
  • To provide evidenced based clinical/therapeutic interventions in line with best practice, in order to improve health outcomes and promote choice, e.g. Intravenous therapy, anticoagulation monitoring, palliative care interventions and catheter and bowel management.
  • Work within Clinical Guidelines, Policies, Procedures applying professional judgment to work outside these frameworks where necessary.
  • Deliver agreed clinical quality and performance standards within the Rapid Response team.
About us
We are proud to be one of the largest community healthcare providers in the country, with more than 4,500 colleagues caring for over four million people across London and Hertfordshire. Every day, our teams bring their skill, compassion, and determination to the people who depend on us.

What inspires us is at the heart of who we are: when we work together, we can help people move forward in ways that truly matter. Our teams support children as they take their first steps in life, and they stand beside adults as they rebuild strength, confidence, and independence. From newborn health visiting to community nursing, stroke rehabilitation, and palliative care, we are there for people through some of life's most important moments.

Joining Central London Community Healthcare means becoming part of a community that lifts each other up. It means working in an organisation that values compassion, welcomes new ideas, and believes in the potential of every colleague. Your development matters here. Your wellbeing matters. Your voice helps shape the future of the care we provide.

We offer a competitive employment package because the work you do matters. At Central London Community Healthcare, you will join an inclusive organisation that invests in its people, supports development, and helps you thrive while delivering high-quality care.

Job description
Successful applicants will be required to demonstrate alignment with the Trusts values & the behaviours aligned to those values - Accountability, Inclusion, Compassion, and Empowerment, alongside fulfilling the duties detailed in the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
  • Registered Nurse with current NMC registration
  • Evidence of recent and continuing post-registration professional education and training
Desirable
  • Experience of working in Primary Care/ Accident & Emergency.
  • Experience of assessing and providing quality care to people with Long Term Conditions
  • Qualifications in Community and/ or Accident and Emergency Nursing.
  • Qualification in teaching or practice-based learning.
  • Physical Clinical Assessment Skills Course or willingness to undertake the course.
  • Nurse prescribing qualification
Experience
Essential
  • Evidence of recent substantial post-registration nursing experience
  • Proven experience of utilising expert diagnostic and clinical skills to provide autonomous, unscheduled medical care and management of patients presenting with undifferentiated and undiagnosed conditions.
  • Experience of assessing and providing quality care to people with Long Term Conditions
  • Extensive range of clinical skills and experience including Vene-puncture, cannulation, catheter and bowel care, EOL
  • Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team
  • Experience of working with people with complex health needs
  • Experience of supervising junior staff and co-ordinating daily activities on a regular basis
  • Experience of undertaking comprehensive health needs assessment and writing care plans
Desirable
  • Experience of implementing evidence-based care in practice
  • Experience of conducting research projects and audit.
  • Experience of change management and implementing change in practice.
  • Evidence of innovation in practice.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Central London Community Health Trust's privacy notice (opens in a new tab)

Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details
Employer name Central London Community Health Trust
Address Tooting Works, Milne House, London, SW17 9SH, United Kingdom

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact: Clinical Operations Manager, Vladimira Kalev, View email address on meeveem.com, View phone number on meeveem.com
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