Job summary
- Main area
- Nursing
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Bank
- Hours
- Flexible working - various
- Job ref
- 824-BANK-LIT1472
- Employer
- Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Trident Business Centre
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £21.88 - £22.92 pay + HCAS + 12.07% Holiday pay
- Salary period
- Hourly
- Closing
- 19/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Bank Urgent Community Response Nurse
NHS AfC: Band 6
Welcome to Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH)
At CLCH, we proudly serve as a beacon of compassionate community healthcare across 14 vibrant London boroughs — Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth, Westminster, Hillingdon, Sutton, and Kingston — as well as Hertfordshire. We bring care closer to home, embracing the rich diversity of these communities with dedication and heart.
Recognised as a Good provider by the Care Quality Commission and celebrated among the top NHS employers, we are united by a shared passion: empowering our community health professionals to deliver care that truly makes a difference.
We are deeply committed to fostering an environment where every member of our team feels respected, valued, and inspired—a place where fairness, kindness, and inclusion blossom. Our culture is rooted in the principles of the NHS People Plan, Our NHS People Promise, and our own strategic Equality values and objectives, guiding us to create a truly supportive and inclusive workplace.
Together, we build a caring community where the warmth we show one another shines through in every life we touch.
Job overview
Are you looking for your next challenge? Would you like to be part of a dynamic service? Do you have a passion for innovation? Then look no further than Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust. We are rated - Good by the Care Quality Commission and are ranked among the top employers in London. Community healthcare is our focus and our passion, encompassing several London Boroughs and the outer counties.
We are extending our Urgent Community Response Service over Winter months and have opportunities within the team and are looking for an Urgent Community Response Band 6 Nurse. The post holder will be a member of a multidisciplinary team.
You will be expected to provide a Urgent Community Response service to patients who are experiencing a health crisis with the aim to support them in their own homes across Wandsworth borough rather than being admitted to hospital. You may be required at times travel across both Wandsworth and Merton to fulfil the service.
Main duties of the job
The role will work to establish, coordinate, and deliver direct clinical care that is diverse, evidence based and innovative. Within this role you will develop your clinical skills and develop professionally to continue to support primary and secondary care to prevent hospital admissions by facilitating integrated care of patients in their home environment.
The role will involve some lone working and responsibility for ensuring high quality clinical provision within the Urgent Community Response Service from 8am-8pm shift patterns across 7 days per week. You will be provided with a Skyguard and there is a robust lone working policy which is followed by all CLCH teams.
Just as we care about our patients’ wellbeing, we care about yours. We offer a range of benefits that include accommodation loans, season travel tickets, childcare assistance, cycle to work schemes and much more, subject to availability. To have a full look at our benefits and what it’s like working for us please go here: www.clch.nhs.uk/staffbenefits
At CLCH we appreciate and are proud of the diversity in the communities we serve and the workforce we employ. Applications are open and welcome to anyone, regardless of your age, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, and disability.
Working for our organisation
Just as we care about our patients’ well-being, we care about yours!
We can offer you:
- A comprehensive induction into the community service followed by a local induction to introduce you to the role
- Car lease scheme(only available for Band 5 and up)
- Flexible working options
- Annual travel card loan
- Training, support and development in your career
To have a full look at our benefits and what it’s like working for us please go here: https://www.clch.nhs.uk/job/pay-and-benefits
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
**Please refer to job description, person specification and trust values, for outline of skills, knowledge and experience required.**
Person specification
Education/Qualification
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse
- Appropriate Registration (NMC)
- Evidence of post-registration education and training
- Advanced Clinical Assessment and Examination qualification
Desirable criteria
- Member of a Special Interest Group relevant to this post
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience working in community setting
- Experience of undertaking comprehensive health needs assessment and writing care plans
- Experience of teaching of junior staff / students, peers in-service training setting
- Experience of negotiating and communicating within a multi-disciplinary team
- Experience of teaching, patient and public involvement and health promotion in practice
- Experience of providing acute care response to frail and elderly patients in acute or community setting
- Experience with relevant clinical competencies including urethral and suprapubic catheterisation, palliative and end of life care support, syringe-driver set up and symptom control.
- Experience of working in the NHS
Desirable criteria
- Participation in research, service development or audit projects
- Previous experience in urgent community response or community nursing
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Well-developed written and verbal communication skills
- Able to demonstrate use of own initiative and ability to work alone in ever changing circumstances.
- Negotiating skills with ability to work independently without direct supervision and across organisational boundaries.
- Able to effectively and sensitively communicate highly complex information both verbally and in writing, with a range of people some of whom may have barriers to communication and understanding.
- Ability to demonstrate and show evidence of effective clinical skills and delegation of clinical caseload to other members of staff within service.
Desirable criteria
- Can critically analyse and apply relevant research to practice
Other
Essential criteria
- Hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010)
- Ability to drive to multiple locations within borough of Wandsworth (on occasions within the borough of Merton) and work shifts covering 8am-8pm, 7 days a week including weekends and Bank Holidays.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jennifer Yang
- Job title
- Clinical Services Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07340500753
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