Community Liaison Clinical Nurse Lead

Job summary

It's an exciting time for our Urgent Community Response (UCR) Service as we continue to build on our successful model. UCR services work with patients in their homes across West Sussex communities to avoid hospital admissions and support those being discharged home.

Our multidisciplinary teams work flexibly to provide a 7-day service, 365 days a year, between 8am and 8pm. They deliver:

• A rapid response to people in the community who are experiencing acute episodes of ill-health.

• A supported discharge service to facilitate timely hospital discharges.
• Acute reablement for up to 10 days, supporting people to achieve functional goals and work towards independence with activities of daily living.

We have an exciting opportunity for a senior Nurse to join us in a new role for our UCR teams, as a Community Liaison Clinical Lead (Nurse). Based in our local acute hospitals, you will work with teams there to support admission avoidance for people by ensuring the appropriate urgent community response is in place to support them to remain at home where appropriate to do so. If you're an ambitious, proactive, and experienced nurse looking to take on a new lead role providing cutting-edge, excellent acute community care, we'd love to hear from you!

Main duties of the job

The role is based within the acute setting and will work to identify and support mainly admission avoidance patients who require community services to prevent admission and signpost for the most appropriate service. The roles focuses on providing safe, effective, and quality senior clinical care, along with strong clinical leadership, advice, and support to the team.

You will use your comprehensive knowledge and champion excellence in practice in a dynamic healthcare environment. Your specialist clinical assessment skills will support patients with complex needs in addition to providing clinical advice and support to colleagues.

Working with the operational leads both in the acute and community settings, you will ensure the clinical effectiveness of services and the delivery of an excellent patient experience. You will also be part of the development of the service through reflective practice, clinical supervision, and quality improvement initiatives. Central to this is supporting the principles of interdisciplinary working and cross skilling for all staff supporting each other and learning together.

Your experience of working across a variety of clinical settings and working autonomously will help you excel in this role. We will support you to develop specialist areas of practice and your leadership skills through internal and external programmes.

About us

The team works closely with other services within Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust, as well as our wider health and social care community, including acute and community partners, GPs, South East Coast Ambulance Service (SECAmb), adult social care and voluntary and third sector organisations.

Why work for us?

• Positive 2021 NHS Staff Survey results with compassionate culture and leadership, and support for staff wellbeing, scoring highly
• Rated 'Good' with 'Outstanding' features by the Care Quality Commission (CQC)
• Located in stunning Sussex, with easy access to the South Downs and the coast

• A great variety of working environments, in the community, in patients' homes and in our community hospitals
• Excellent training and development opportunities
• Real Living Wage Employer, with great rates of pay
• Supportive flexible working patterns such as part time, flexi time, annualised hours etc.
• Supportive team environments

• Cost-effective and convenient workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove and Brighton
• Thriving BAME, Disability and Wellbeing, LGBT+ and Religion and Belief staff networks
• Accredited Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, committed to creating inclusive workplaces
• Access to a wide range of benefits and discounts for NHS staff