Job summary
Are you an experienced qualified nurse who enjoys working in partnership with patients and their families?

Bank Staff Nurses required to join East Coast Community Healthcare's bank workforce. Are you a Registered Nurse looking for more flexibility with the ability to pick and choose your own shifts?

We are seeking a passionate and motivated Registered General Nurses to join our night community nursing teams working in the Great Yarmouth and Waveney area as a bank member of staff. You will be based at either Beccles Hospital or James Paget University Hospital and will work with a Health Care Assistant to deliver care to patients across the Great Yarmouth and Waveney areas. The successful candidates will be an experienced practitioner who is able to support patients and their families in challenging situations. As a clinician working out of core hours the role will require an ability to work closely with professionals from other organisations. The night service currently works between the hours of 20.00 and 07.00.

The service delivers unplanned care to patients and will require the successful candidate to be resilient and resourceful. You will be working within an established team of clinicians who visit patients in their own homes and Residential Care, visits are completed by a registered and a non registered nurse working in partnership. The desire to deliver excellent end of life care is essential.

Interviews are provisionally scheduled to take place on 12th September 2026.

Main duties of the job
The successful nurse will have proven skills in symptom management within end of life care, including setting up and managing syringe drivers. In addition, the successful nurse will demonstrate compassion at the core of their clinical practice, and will offer a calm and clinically confident approach even in highly emotive settings. Competence in urethral and supra-pubic catheter care is essential. The team deliver urgent community response visits out of hours, including to people who have fallen and those experiencing a care crisis. Due to the variable nature of urgent response work, the role requires flexibility and critical thinking.

If you are compassionate, caring and this opportunity interests you please apply. Successful candidates will be able to demonstrate how they embody East Coast Community Healthcare values and commitments.

A pool car is provided for use when on duty.

About us
ECCH is well established health care provider and has been successfully delivering NHS care within the community since 2011. We provide a range of NHS, community health and social care services predominantly across the easterly region of the Norfolk/Suffolk borders.We are aligned to NHS terms and conditions, and offer many employee benefits, to find out more about us visit our website - www.ecch.org. We are a social enterprise and staff owned organisation which means staff can opt to be shareholders and have a real say in how ECCH is run and evolves to deliver healthcare for the future.At the heart of our ambition, we work in partnership with and for the community to become the provider and employer of choice for community healthcare.

The out of hours team works in pairs across two geographical areas, predominantly covering visits requiring a 2 hour response overnight. The teams work in continual contact with each other to support and flex as required to meet patient need, as well as linking closely with the system hub based in Norwich. All necessary equipment including a pool car are provided for the shift. The out of hours team is well established and experienced, with a reputation for it's resilience and compassion. If you would like the opportunity to work with us, we look forward to hearing from you.

Job responsibilities
Main responsibilities

• To work with other members of the multidisciplinary team to strengthen the emerging Out of Hospital System.
• To work autonomously at a level appropriate to clinical competence and within the scope of professional practice.
• To develop links between key partners, Out of Hours GP service, care homes, acute trusts and specialist services within and outside of ECCH.
• To assist others with the continuous evaluation of the service to ensure it is fit for purpose and increases access and choice
• To provide clinical and professional support to the community nursing teams across ECCH localities

KEY RESULT AREAS
Role Specific

• Act as a resource for health care professionals on all matters relating to community nursing.
• Plan and organise a range of complex activities in a wide range of settings to ensure best practice is delivered across your designated area of responsibility and the wider community.
• Work on a rota basis as member of a multidisciplinary team providing access to services on a 24/7 basis
• Support the leadership and management of community nursing teams.
• Work collaboratively with residential home colleagues to promote high standards of healthcare.
• Participate in teaching and clinical supervision of support workers and other provider staff as required
• Contribute to the clinical governance agenda through participation in clinical risk assessment and management, clinical audit
• Work with colleagues to develop care pathways for patients with a range of healthcare needs
• Develop excellent internal and external networks in order to promote the community nursing service.
• Undertake continuous professional developments as identified through appraisal and personal development planning
• Work with ECCH Colleagues, and other partner agencies and stakeholders including the acute trust to contribute to the development and delivery of new innovative models of service delivery.
• Contribute to the review of current policies/protocols/guidelines and the development of clinical pathways and outcomes for this client group.
• Critically evaluate research findings, national guidelines and implement changes in clinical practice as appropriate
• Create an environment conducive to effective working, respecting and supporting staff to deliver high quality clinical services.
• Ensure staff compliance with ECCH risk Management systems, proactively identifying risk within specialist services and ensuring actions to reduce and manage risk.
• Ensure a high standard of record keeping is achieved in line with ECCH and professional standards.
• Contribute to, support and promote ECCH's, strategic direction, values and culture in relation to community nursing
• Make positive contribution to excellent communications across the organisation
• Represent the Community nursing service at external bodies as required.
• Take responsibility to ensure compliancy with Health and Safety Policy, Fire and Environmental Waste Regulations.
• Ensure own compliance with the Nursing and Midwifery Codes of Conduct and Competence and the NHS Managers Code of Conduct.

Organisational Culture
As a member of the organisation the post holder will:

• Own their individual responsibilities and develop team objectives.
• Contribute to creating improvement, transformation and innovations of services.
• Contribute to creating a work environment that is marked by pride, enthusiasm and collaboration.
• Contribute to financial performance and target delivery.
• Lead by action and inspire others acting as role model, demonstrating the leadership behaviours, values and commitments identified by ECCH.
• Communicate positively and effectively.
• Actively give and receive feedback in a constructive manner.
• Be adaptable, work with integrity and be trustworthy.
• Show constancy, courage and resolve in the pursuit of the vision and aims of ECCH.
• Actively contribute to improving the health and well-being of the populations that is served

Communication and stakeholders

• Patients and carers
• Provider staff including: Out of Hospital Teams, Specialist Nursing/ District Nursing Teams, Community Matrons, Discharge Liaison Nurses, CCG Pharmacy Team/community pharmacists, School Nurses, Health Visitors
• ECCH Executive Team
• GPs, and their out of hours deputising service.
• Practice Nurses
• Nursing and care home staff
• Governance & Patient Safety Directorate
• Acute Hospital Provider
• Social Services
• Voluntary Sector

All roles within East Coast Community Healthcare CIC (ECCH) require staff to demonstrate our Values and Signature Behaviours in the care and service they provide to patients, service users, stakeholders and colleagues. All members of staff should consider these as an essential part of their job role.

Our Values outline the core behaviours that we can all achieve and are summarised as an acronym within the word 'CARE'. These stand for: Compassion, Action, Respect and Everyone.

Underpinning our Values are our Signature Behaviours which highlight by taking the right actions we continue to build a strong culture. Our four Signature Behaviours are: Compassion - We Listen, We Learn, We Lead| Action - My Accountability, My Responsibility | Respect - Respect Our Resources: People, Time and Money | Everyone - Work Together, Achieve Together.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Professional Registration with Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) Registered Nurse Level 1 (Adult)
• Diploma in Higher Education (Nursing Practice) or equivalent

Desirable

• Mentorship/ preceptorship qualification/ ENB 998
• Evidence of working towards a nursing degree

Experience
Essential

• Evidence of continued professional development
• Ability to work unsupervised
• Ability to demonstrate a comprehensive level of clinical knowledge and competence within the sphere of practice

Desirable

• Experience of working in a community setting

Additional Criteria
Essential

• SKILLS & KNOWLEDGE
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Able to prioritise and allocate own workload
• Ability to positively support and educate staff, patient and their families and carers
• Ability to use various IT packages to a good standard in connection with the roles
• Effective organisation and time management skills
• Excellent record keeping skills
• PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES
• Flexible team orientated approach to work
• Passion and enthusiasm to deliver person centred care
• Self-motivated, solution and results focused
• Ability to work confidently on own initiative
• Ability to organise and manage a delegated caseload effectively
• Ability to work in a variety of community environments
• Available to participate on a rota providing 24/7 services to clients
• Ability to embrace our Culture, Values and Signature Behaviours: (Compassion - We Listen, We Learn, We Lead| Action - My Accountability, My Responsibility | Respect - Respect Our Resources: People, Time and Money | Everyone - Work Together, Achieve Together).
• Willingness and ability to work across different sites and travel to alternative sites and across the community as required.

Desirable

• Health coaching training

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).

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.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration.