Job SummaryAre you a passionate and experienced Registered Nurse or Allied Health Professional looking for a role where you can make an immediate and meaningful impact? Join our Urgent Community Response and Hospital at Home Service and play a key role in delivering high-quality care closer to home.
Working across Southampton and South West Hampshire, you will provide urgent assessments, crisis intervention, admission avoidance and discharge support for people with complex health needs. You will work autonomously whilst being part of a supportive multidisciplinary team that includes nurses, therapists, advanced practitioners, primary care colleagues, acute hospital teams, ambulance services and social care partners. Together, we help people receive the right care, in the right place, at the right time.
What You Will Do- Undertake holistic clinical assessments and develop person-centred care plans.
- Deliver urgent interventions and proactive case management.
- Support patients living with frailty, long-term conditions, rehabilitation and complex health and social care needs.
- Contribute to hospital admission avoidance and timely discharge.
- Provide leadership, supervision and support to junior staff and students.
- Participate in service improvement, innovation and quality initiatives.
Main duties of the jobThe post holder will work flexibly within the Southampton and South West Urgent Community Response and Hospital at Home (UCR/H@H) Service, part of the Southampton and South West Community Response Division, providing assessments, urgent case management and crisis interventions to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions, support patient choice, and facilitate timely hospital discharge across the City of Southampton and South West Hampshire.
Working as part of an integrated multidisciplinary team, the post holder will collaborate closely with community nursing, therapy services and other intermediate care teams, as well as key partners including primary care, ambulance services, acute hospitals, local authorities and VCSE organisations. Together, they will deliver coordinated, person-centred care pathways that support crisis intervention, admission avoidance, proactive case management and self-management, using a co-produced approach with patients and service users.
The service is committed to providing a responsive, safe, effective and caring service that is well led and designed to meet the needs of the local community. Although operating from a local hub, the team delivers a joined-up approach across the locality, working closely with GP practices, community teams and wider stakeholders to achieve excellence in care and improve outcomes for patients.
About usHampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.
Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.
We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.
Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence.
Job responsibilitiesFurther information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
Person SpecificationQualificationsEssential- Registered Adult Nurse, Registered Mental Health Nurse or Registered Allied Health Professional with degree-level qualification or equivalent experience.
Disclosure and Barring Service CheckThis 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 RegistrationApplicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
