Provide Community
Nursing Associate/Practitioner
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Main area Admission Avoidance Grade
NHS AfC: Band 4
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (long days covering the service from 8am -10pm)
Job ref
828-PROVIDE4211
Employer
Provide CIC
Employer type
NHS
Site
Kestrel House
Town
Chelmsford
Salary
£28,392 - £31,157 Dependent on experience
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
21/08/2026 23:59
Job Overview
Are you an enthusiastic and compassionate Nursing Associate/Practitioner looking for a rewarding role where you can make a real difference? Join our Urgent Community Response Team (UCRT) and help deliver high-quality, patient-centred care in the community, supporting people to remain safely in their own homes and avoiding hospital admissions.
UCRT is a 7-day service providing rapid assessment and treatment for patients experiencing a health crisis in their own homes, including nursing and residential care homes. Working closely with partners across Mid and South Essex—we provide holistic assessments within two hours of referral and deliver timely, coordinated care.
As a Nursing Associate/Practitioner, you will work both independently and as part of a skilled multidisciplinary team, assessing and treating patients in their own homes. Your role will include clinical assessments, monitoring observations, venepuncture, catheter care, supporting patients following falls, and managing acute episodes of illness. You will also carry out basic equipment assessments to support our Allied Health Professional colleagues, with full training provided.
This is an exciting opportunity for a proactive clinician who enjoys autonomous working and is passionate about delivering excellent community-based care.
UCRT operates 7 days a week between 8:00am and 10:00pm. The role includes weekend and bank holiday working on a shared rota.
Main duties of the job
- To support the registered practitioners in UCRT
- To carry out comprehensive assessments in patients own homes.
- Implement and evaluate individual care plans, utilizing practical and theoretical knowledge under the direction of a registered practitioner
- Maintain excellent communication with patients, relatives and members of the team demonstrating a variety of communication skills in accordance to the patients needs.
- To forward plan where possible for the necessary equipment required.
Working for our organisation
Provide is a Community Interest Company (social enterprise). We deliver a broad range of health and social care services in the community, and are committed to making sure that they are safe, responsive and of high quality. Provide is owned by its employees and has primarily social objectives. Any profits we make are reinvested into the local community or back into delivering services.
We work from a variety of community settings, such as community hospitals, community clinics, schools, nursing homes and primary care settings, as well as within people’s homes to provide more than 40 services to children, families and adults across Essex, Dorset, East Anglia and the North of England.
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A Highly Respected, Award Winning Health And Social Care Provider. We Expect Our Staff To Demonstrate And Uphold Our Values At All Times
Vision: Transforming Lives
Values: Care, Innovation and Compassion
Mission: An ambitious, employee owned social enterprise, growing in size and influence. We transform lives by treating, caring and educating people.
Provide is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills, proud to have LGBT+, Ethnic Minority and Men’s Networks.
We welcome applicants from underrepresented groups. If you have the skills and experience for the job, please apply regardless of your background.
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
The post holder will provide support to the members of UCRT which include, Nurses, Allied Health Professionals and healthcare support workers to ensure that holistic assessments are completed whilst working collaboratively with the team to support and facilitate the treatment of patients within their own home.
The postholder will be required to provide a high quality, efficient and effective service to patients that are referred to UCRT, this means delivering acute care which could include simple reviews of patients on the UCRT caseload, monitoring observations, venepuncture, catheter care/catheterisation assisting patients that have fell with appropriate equipment and to support patients during an episode of ill health within their own home.
The post holder will be proficient, knowledgeable and competent and expected to work with minimal supervision, adhering to organisational policies and procedures and in line with their scope of practice competency. They will continue to develop in their role through the acquisition of further skills, knowledge and competencies to be determined by the needs of the patients, service and team.
The role of Nurse Associate/ Practitioner is intended to provide fully integrated, holistic care and support to ensure people are safely managed at home.
Person specification
academic and work experience
Essential criteria
- Foundation Degree
- NMC Pin
- Community/acute experience
Desirable criteria
- Clinical Skills evident on application
- Good written skills
- Good communication Skills
academic and work experience
Essential criteria
- foundation degree/diploma
Desirable criteria
- Clinical Skills evident on application
Further Information
How will we contact you?
All correspondence for this post will be by email or text messaging. Please register for text messages on your TRAC account. Applicants are advised to check their email accounts regularly to ensure that email filters are set to allow our mails. As we often have many applicants for jobs at Provide, we regret that we will only be able to contact those external applicants who are shortlisted for interview. Therefore if you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, then please assume you have not been shortlisted for interview on this particular occasion. Internal candidates who are unsuccessful can seek feedback from the recruiting manager. If you wish to contact the Recruitment Team, please do this via provide.recruitment1@nhs.net If you wish to contact the Recruiting Manager about the vacancy/role or for feedback after interview, their details are provided within the advert.
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Closing Date
Provide reserves the right to close this vacancy at any time or bring forward the closing date should it have an overwhelming response. We therefore encourage an early application to ensure consideration for this post.
Professional UK clinical registration required for the role?
If we require you to hold UK professional clinical registration to undertake a role we appoint you to, Provide will pay for your registration during the first year of your employment.
COVID-19 Vaccination
Provide CIC continues to encourage all colleagues to ensure they have been double vaccinated and received a booster vaccination.
We recognise taking the vaccine provides the best defence against COVID 19 for our patients, service users, customers, fellow colleagues, and their families.
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We are committed to equal opportunities, flexible working practices and the National Living Wage.
Successful Applicant
You will be required to bring all your documentation to your interview to show the recruiting manager and again at your pre-employment appointment with the Recruitment Co-Ordinators.
The information that you provide will be treated confidentially. If you fail to provide all of the information, Provide may not be able to fulfil our contractual obligations to you or may be prevented from complying with our legal obligations.
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