Staff Nurse - OOH UCR (Out of hours Urgent Community Response) Team
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 08/09/2026
- Closes
- 11/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
Join the newly formed Out of Hours Urgent Community Response (OOH UCR) team, combining District Nursing and Intensive Home Support services. This role involves delivering high-level skilled nursing care to patients in their homes across Pennine Lancashire overnight, aiming to prevent hospital admissions. You will be responsible for assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of care, working from bases in Burnley and Blackburn. The position requires a commitment to professional standards and high-quality patient care.
Key responsibilities
- Assist the Clinical Team Leader/Team Sister in the co-ordination and delivery of care.
- Visit several patients daily in their own homes.
- Provide high quality nursing care to a range of patients with varying healthcare needs.
- Provide a high standard of holistic assessment and care planning.
- Provide wound management, health promotion, medicines management, and end of life care.
Essential criteria
- Professional qualification - RGN
- Full UK driving Licence with access to a vehicle
- Multi-disciplinary working
- Experience of community working
- Ability to adapt to the needs of the service and work independently
- Clinical knowledge and skills
Desirable criteria
- Able to deputise in the absence of the Senior Nurse
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 5 at £29,970 – £36,483 a year, across England.
This advert: £32,073 – £39,043 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust
Staff Nurse - OOH UCR (Out of hours Urgent Community Response) Team
The closing date is 11 September 2026
Job summary
The newly formed Out of Hours Urgent Community Response (OOH UCR) team combines the patients traditionally seen by both District Nursing and our Intensive Home Support Service. This is an exciting time to join the service as we come together to enhance the level and breadth of care and treatment we are able to deliver to our patients in their own home, preventing unnecessary hospital admissions and meeting the national guidance around Urgent Community Responses.
The post holder will contribute a high level of skilled nursing care to patients within the community setting. They will be responsible for assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of care and will work across Pennine Lancashire (East Lancashire & Blackburn with Darwen) overnight to support our 24 hour nursing service. Successful applicants will be equipped to work effectively in the night nursing team however some initial training will take place during the day.
Operating across our two bases at Burnley General Hospital and St Ives House, Blackburn, the post holder must demonstrate professional standards of practice and personal qualities and behaviours as expected by the NMC Code and be passionate about high quality patient care. They will ne
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