Registered Nurse - Integrated Urgent Crisis Response Service IUCRS

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and motivated nurse to join our new dynamic Integrated Urgent Crises Response Service (IUCRS) providing holistic assessments and identifying treatment needs that can be managed within a variety of settings.

The IUCRS is an evolving and constantly developing multi-disciplinary team incorporating the following areas: Urgent Community Response (UCR), the cleric ambulance system (working in conjunction with EEAST), virtual wards, in reach into the Integrated Rapid Assessment service (IRAS) based in the Emergency Department Colchester General Hospital, Unplanned Community Nursing and Outpatient Parental Antibiotics Therapy (OPAT) service.

You will be based at Kennedy House in Clacton-on-Sea, however the role involves travelling throughout Northeast Essex delivering, assessing, and treating patients in their own homes, within 2 hours, as a part of IUCRS Urgent Community Response Team (UCR). Our team delivers high quality care, 08:00 - 20:00 7 day a week.

We are committed to supporting you in your professional development ensuring you have opportunities to attend appropriate training to support you to reach your full potential. You will be offered individually tailored induction, training, and support. A car driver is essential.

This is a Fixed Term / Secondment until 31st March 2026. Internal applicants currently employed by ESNEFT will be offered on a secondment basis only

Main duties of the job

You will provide rapid specialised assessment and treatment to patients who may present with complex physical and psychological care needs and initiate services to safely avoid unnecessary hospital admission.

As the senior nurse you will be expected to lead and coordinate the shift, provide experience and knowledge, and have the ability to problem solve and reach solutions under pressure. You will triage calls and allocate appropriately to staff ensuring a 2-hour response is met as per national guidance. You will proactively be part of the developing service responding to challenges within practice. In this post you will also support integration of service, education, practice development and research relevant to the needs of the patients, staff, and students.

For this role, you must hold a relevant qualification with community experience or other comparable/transferable skills. You should have a good understanding and knowledge of relevant legislation and treatment methods used in this specialist field and be adaptable to change and embrace innovation.

About us

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.

We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.

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Employer details

Employer name

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Kennedy House

Kennedy Way

Clacton-on-Sea

CO15 4AB

Employer's website

https://www.esneft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Kennedy House

Kennedy Way

Clacton-on-Sea

CO15 4AB

Employer's website

https://www.esneft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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