Rapid Response Nurse
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Part-time, Flexible working
- Posted
- 22/09/2026
- Closes
- 29/09/2026
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 Furness Rapid Response team as a Band 5 Nurse to provide urgent community care, aiming to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions. This temporary role involves delivering a 2-hour crisis response to acutely unwell patients and working within Virtual Wards. The position requires strong communication, clinical assessment skills, and the ability to work proactively in a multidisciplinary team. It's a challenging yet rewarding role focused on patient-centred care.
Essential criteria
- Band 5 Registered Nurse adult branch
Desirable criteria
- teaching and assessing in clinical practice
- COPD module
- post registration education and experience
- scope of professional practice
- clinical supervision
- reflective practice
- experience in primary health care team
- computer literacy
- experience of clinical audit
- skills ability and knowledge
- effective time management
- ability to work under pressure
- experience of discharge planning
- clinical assessment skills
- awareness of current national and local NHS activity in acute and primary care
- IV therapy and cannulation skills
- organisational skills
- venepuncture skills
- good interpersonal skills
- team orientated
- proactive
- innovative
- car driver /owner
- Band 5 Registered Nurse adult branch
- teaching and assessing in clinical practice
- COPD module
- post registration education and experience
- scope of professional practice
- clinical supervision
- reflective practice
- experience in primary health care team
- computer literacy
- experience of clinical audit
- skills ability and knowledge
- effective time management
- ability to work under pressure
- experience of discharge planning
- clinical assessment skills
- awareness of current national and local NHS activity in acute and primary care
- IV therapy and cannulation skills
- organisational skills
- venepuncture skills
- good interpersonal skills
- team orientated
- proactive
- innovative
- car driver /owner
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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University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust
Rapid Response Nurse
The closing date is 29 September 2026
Job summary
Furness Rapid Response are looking for a Band 5 Nurse to join our team in the community.
This is a temporary post to cover Maternity Leave / secondment opportunity.
We are seeking a hardworking, dynamic, proactive, individual to join our well established multi disciplinary team.
You will support the delivery of the urgent community response standard which aims to provide a 2-hour crisis response to patients who are acutely unwell within our local community to avoid unnecessary hospital admissions. As well as working within the newly established Virtual Wards.
This is can be a challenging role , every day is different but exciting and rewarding.
Main duties of the job
The role requires fantastic communication skills, creative thinking and working proactively and collaboratively with others to ensure a high standard of care is delivered.
The role requires undertaking holistic assessments sometimes in complex and challenging situations to develop and deliver robust programmes of care for patients and carers. This is an exciting time to work in the community. The community is advancing and developing the urgent care response to prevent un-necessary hospital admissions.
You must be able to use your own initiative, work under pressure, keep t
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