Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust
Liaison/Rapid Response Sister/Charge Nurse
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Job Opportunity: Shared Post between Integrated Discharge Team and Rapid Response Team
This is an opportunity for a shared post between two teams – The Integrated Discharge Team based at Luton & Dunstable Hospital and our community-based Rapid Response Team.
This is an exciting role for a dynamic nurse who enjoys autonomous practice, complex clinical decision-making, multidisciplinary working, and leading others to deliver outstanding patient-centred care as well as having knowledge of discharge planning.
These teams play a vital role in preventing hospital admissions or facilitating early and complex discharges.
The successful applicant will be in an exciting position to contribute to:
- Service development by developing new ways of working (e.g. clinical triage, patient assessment, discharge planning)
- Strengthening collaborative working, both across the teams and with system partners (e.g. GPs, social care and voluntary organisations)
Join us and be part of transforming and providing high-quality health care within an integrated team model. In return, we will actively encourage and support your development.
This role includes shift work & weekend working.
Interview date will be on 22 July 2026, which will be held at the Poynt in Luton, which will be face-to-face interviews. This will give you the opportunity to see the working environment and meet the team.
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You will contribute to the delivery of safe, effective and timely discharges for patients returning to the community from hospital.
- Assess patients, work collaboratively with families, carers, the multidisciplinary team to ensure a comprehensive understanding of available community services when arranging health-funded packages of care.
- Receive, assess, manage same-day referrals from Primary Care through the GP Liaison Service, using clinical judgement, decision-making to support admission avoidance and ensure patients are directed to the most appropriate care pathway.
- Ensure the provision of community nursing care that responds to urgent crisis response requirements in the community by assessing, prioritising, allocating, visiting, and treating patients using up-to-date clinical skills and knowledge. Work with the integrated community nursing teams and wider multidisciplinary/integrated teams to provide high-quality nursing care.
- Work collaboratively with acute hospital, ambulance service, and other providers to ensure care at home that avoids inappropriate hospital admission.
- Prevent unnecessary hospital admissions and facilitate timely hospital discharge.
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(Should we receive a high number of applications, we reserve the right to close this vacancy at any point after 11/08/2026)
Rated ‘Outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission, we are proud to provide high-quality innovative services across most of the east of England that enable people to receive care closer to home and live healthier lives.
There’s one reason why our services are outstanding – and that’s our amazing staff who, for the seventh year running, rated us incredibly highly in the national staff survey.
If you share our passion for innovative and high-quality care delivery, then please submit your application and join us on our exciting journey as a leading-edge specialist community provider. All are welcome to apply, and our promise to you is a culture which prioritises staff engagement and development.
For further details/informal visits contact:
Name: Emma Farquhar
Job title: IDT Liaison Team or Rapid Response Service Manager
Email address: emmafarquhar@nhs.net
Telephone number: 01582 497355
IDT Liaison Team: 01582 497355
Rapid Response: 07881516886
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