# Urgent Community Response Nurse/Paramedic

**Company**: Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: London
**Experience**: senior
**Salary**: £58133.00 to £65261.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking a Band 7 Registered Nurse or Paramedic for our Community Independence Service, which provides urgent community response, hospital at home, and D2A pathways. As a senior practitioner, you will lead the team and work autonomously, providing initial assessments and follow-up care to patients in their homes or care settings.

The main duty of an Urgent Community Response (UCR) nurse/paramedic is to provide high-quality care to patients in the community who are experiencing an acute deterioration in their health, that could otherwise lead to a hospital admission. UCR nurses/paramedics assess, manage, and treat patients in their own homes or care settings, aiming to review patients within two hours of referral.

Responsibilities:

- Provide high-quality care to patients in the community

- Assess, manage, and treat patients in their own homes or care settings

- Lead the team on a daily basis

- Work autonomously as a senior practitioner

- Provide initial assessments and follow-up care to patients

- Review patients within two hours of referral

Requirements:

- Current, valid NMC (UK) or HCPC (UK) registration

- Substantial experience in Acute care (e.g., A&E, Paramedic, ITU, CCU, HDU)

- Physical Assessment (Health Assessment course essential for RGNs)

- Venepuncture (with ability to identify the required blood tests)

- Cannulation

- Medication Administration (PO, PR, IV, IM, SC, etc.)

- Triage

- Autonomous Practice

- Confidence in knowledge and skills

- Awareness of the Mental Capacity Act and Mental Capacity Assessment

Benefits:

- Opportunity to earn extra pay through the bank at a competitive pay rate

- Individual training package of £300 per person, per year

- Inclusive and supportive working environment and team dynamic

- Multidisciplinary team, specialist services, and wider integrated care system

Salary: £58,133 to £65,261 per annum

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## Skills

### Required
- Physical Assessment
- Venepuncture
- Cannulation
- Medication Administration
- Triage
- Autonomous Practice
- Mental Capacity Act

### Nice to have
- Non-Medical Prescriber
- Teaching skills
- Mentor/Practice Assessor

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