Team Leader UCRT
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Secondment
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 28/08/2026
- 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
This is an exciting opportunity for a Band 6 Team Leader within the Urgent Community Response Team (UCRT) in South East Essex. The role involves preventing acutely unwell patients from attending hospital by supporting them in their own homes. You will work as an autonomous practitioner, delivering crisis care and support. The UCRT is a 7-day-a-week service that provides specialist nurse and occupational therapy-led care, aiming to stabilise immediate health needs and plan ongoing treatment.
Essential criteria
- Graduate Diploma or degree nursing
Desirable criteria
- Assessment and Consultation
- Non medical prescribing
- Acute and or community experience
- Evidence of Supporting unwell patients
- Graduate Diploma or degree nursing
- Assessment and Consultation
- Non medical prescribing
- Acute and or community experience
- Evidence of Supporting unwell patients
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £39,959 – £48,117 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
Team Leader UCRT
The closing date is 11 September 2026
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 6 Team Leader position within the Urgent Community Response Team, South East Essex. The successful applicant will be working to prevent acutely unwell patients attending hospital by supporting them in their own home. Experience in supporting unwell patients is desirable, in return you will gain all necessary training , such as assessment skills.
Main duties of the job
UCRT South East Essex is a community admission avoidance team available 7 days a week that will help patients stay at home when they are feeling unwell rather than be transferred to hospital.
The UCRT SEE team provides specialist nurse and occupational therapy led care in patients own homes. They visit patients within two hours of receiving a referral from a healthcare professional to stabilise their immediate health needs and plan ongoing care and treatment as appropriate.
The Band 6 Team Leader will work as an autonomous practitioner within the UCRT SEE Team supporting the delivery of crisis care and support in patients own homes.
About us
EPUT are looking for motivated staff who shares our Trust values of Care, Learn and Empower. In return, EPUT can offer you a range of benefits and development including;
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