Triage Nurse/Paramedic - UCRT SPA

• 27 days holiday, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days after 10 years' service.
• Excellent pension of up to14.5% of your pensionable pay.
• Staff discounts include Blue Light Card, NHS discount offers, and staff benefits.
• Season ticket loans are interest-free to cover the cost of travelling to and from work via tram, rail, or bus.

Work that wraps around your needs

• Flexible working: available from day one for most roles.
• Job share: Applications for job shares are welcomed.

£39,959 to £48,117 a year per annum

An exciting opportunity has become available for a Band 6 Nurses/Paramedics to join our Urgent Community Response Team (UCRT) Access and Clinical Triage Team.

UCRT refers to a combination of community admission avoidance teams across Mid and South Essex provided by EPUT, NELFT and Provide, working in collaboration with each other. The UCRT Access and Clinical Triage team is responsible for the triaging and acceptance of referrals and is currently hosted by EPUT.

UCRT services provide specialist care in patients own homes. They make contact with patients within two hours of receiving a referral to stabilise their immediate health and social needs and plan ongoing care and intervention as appropriate.

In the role of Triage Nurse/Paramedic, you will work to support the triage function of the UCRT access team by undertaking telephone assessments of referrals from the Ambulance Service, Primary Care and other health and social care professionals. You will determine the suitability and safety of patients for assessment by local UCRT services or coordinate a response by another appropriate community based team or service.

In this role, you will support cover of a rota to undertake triage within the UCRT Single Point of Access, but also in an integrated/in-reach function within 111 and 999 control centres to 'pull' referrals that are deemed as safe and appropriate for a UCRT response - known as Hear & Treat.

In this role, you will support cover of a rota to undertake triage within the UCRT Single Point of Access, but also in an integrated/in-reach function within 111 and 999 control centres to pull referrals that are deemed as safe and appropriate for a UCRT response known as Hear & Treat. You will receive full support and training to access relevant systems within these organisations.

To undertake the clinical triage of referrals received in the UCRT Single Point of Access.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

Rochford Hospital ( Ashingdon House)

Rochford

United Kingdom

United Kingdom

https://eput.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

13 November 2026

Agenda for change

Band 6

Permanent

Full-time

Rochford Hospital ( Ashingdon House)

Rochford