Senior Community Nurse

The Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust works to deliver acute and urgent care services within the community to support patients who would otherwise require hospital admission offering rapid assessment, diagnostics, and treatment for people with complex health and social care needs, frailty, or exacerbations of long-term conditions.

You will be part of a team that provides assessment in the community for patients either in their homes, care homes or nursing homes in order to prevent further deterioration. Early detection and intervention is key to prevent further deterioration and therefore hospital admission.

The service aim includes, urgent case management responding to crisis, recovery support, self-management, and adapt a collaborative approach with patients. The operational hours for this service are 8am - 8pm, 7 days a week.

You will provide clinical leadership within the Urgent Community Response (UCR) and Hospital at Home teams, delivering high-quality, patient-centred care to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions and support early discharge. The role includes managing day-to-day service delivery, coordinating and prioritising caseloads, supervising and supporting staff, ensuring safe staffing and skill mix, and contributing to quality improvement, governance, and service development in line with organisational standards.

Royal Surrey is a compassionate and collaborative acute and community Trust. Recognising that our 5000 colleagues are our greatest strength, we offer a comprehensive health and wellbeing program along with a commitment to developing and advancing your career. Our diverse and welcoming Royal Surrey family will ensure you that you feel valued from your initial interview through your entire tenure.

We are clinically led and provide joined up care by bridging the gap between hospital and community services alongside regional specialist cancer care. Our main acute hospital site is in Guildford with community hospital sites at Milford, Haslemere and Cranleigh. We provide adult community health services in homes across Guildford and Waverley.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) have given us an overall rating of Outstanding.

Royal Surrey has a strong reputation and history to build on. We are proud of our achievements and we are investing in our colleagues through our commitment to supporting professional development as well as investing more than £45 million in our physical environment and new equipment in the next few years. There has never been a better time to join us.