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Job summary

Main area
Rapid Response
Grade
Band 7
Contract
Permanent
Hours
  • Full time
  • Flexible working
37.5 hours per week (Shift pattern covering a 24 hours service across 7 days)
Job ref
395-WF194-24
Employer
NELFT NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Rapid Response Team, Woodbury Unit, First Floor
Town
Leytonstone
Salary
£43,742 - £50,056 pa pro rata (plus HCAS)
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
31/10/2024 23:59

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Advanced Clinical Practitioner - Rapid Response Team

Band 7

Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.

The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.

Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, in this video

Job overview

Rapid Response Team

Advanced Nurse Practitioner / Advanced Paramedic / Advanced Clinical Practitioner

Waltham Forest Adults Community Health Services – Unplanned Care

NELFT Waltham Forest would like to offer you a new and exciting opportunity to join the Waltham Forest Rapid Response Team.

Rapid Response Team is a progressive and innovative multidisciplinary team aimed at supporting the population of Waltham Forest, providing urgent Multidisciplinary (MDT) response to prevent avoidable hospital admissions.  The team works across 7 days a week, 24 hours a day.

The aim is to support and treat suitable patients in the community, with a range of escalated health and social care needs.

Waltham Forest is a diverse and multicultural borough in outer London with lots of green space and a thriving local market and independents shops. North East London NHS Foundation Trust (NELFT) offers a wealth of opportunities for successful candidates making it a great place to work and live.

Main duties of the job

You will

  • Work collaboratively with health and social care professionals across the borough and Integrated Care System.
  • Lead Clinical decision making and undertake enhanced holistic assessment of patient/family needs in partnership with the patient and their family/carer.
  • Triage referrals from other agencies or disciplines
  • Co-ordinate intensive and complex nursing care with other multi-disciplinary agencies.
  • Be proficient in advanced clinical skills and knowledge with the ability to assess the physical and psychosocial needs and develop a comprehensive and concordant plan of care with the patient, their carers and the wider MDT as needed.
  • Work collaboratively and carryout joint visits members with MDT colleagues within the team to promote holistic person-centred assessment and approach to care
  • Participate and complete managerial and clinical supervision
  • Provide line management supervision to members of the Rapid Response multidisciplinary team
  • Contribute towards and carryout audits within the service
  • Conduct and contribute to Datix investigations/ Root Cause Analysis/ Serious Incidents and to help support any lessons learnt within the service
  • Support and mentor pre-registration learners from a variety of disciplines
  • Be a driver and have access to a car.

If you are interested and would like to discuss the role, please contact

Alimata Duval ([email protected]- Rapid Response Operational Lead

Working for our organisation

COVID-19 Vaccination

We continue to encourage all staff to ensure that they have been double vaccinated and received their booster. We recognise that taking the vaccine provides the best defence against COVID 19 for our patients, our staff and their families.

 

Probationary Period

This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).

 

Starting with NELFT

NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop in sessions focusing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.

 

High Cost Area Supplement – London

This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (minimum payment of £4,313 and a maximum payment of £5,436 per annum pro rata).

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further details on this vacancy.

Person specification

A.C. as per Person Spec

Essential criteria
  • Experience
  • Skills / Abilities
  • Knowledge
  • Registration
Desirable criteria
  • Experience

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Registered Nurse (Part 1 of NMC register) or Health & Care Professions Council eg Paramedic
  • Non-Medical Prescriber.
  • Postgraduate level study or able to demonstrate post graduate level working evidenced via continuous professional development
Desirable criteria
  • Certificate/Diploma in Management Studies Specialist Community Practice Teacher or equivalent

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Significant previous post registration experience in the relevant key areas at Band 6 or above
  • Experience of working in a community or urgent care response team.
  • Experience of managing in a customer focussed environment, providing professional support within a busy environment
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of quality improvement processes and clinical audits

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Demonstrate skills to organise, prioritise clinical caseloads within a multidisciplinary team
  • Demonstrate up to date knowledge and expertise in the speciality e.g. 0-2hr Urgent Care Response
  • Demonstrate a clear vision of the role and the service
  • Demonstrate proficient information, written and orally, in a clear and logical manner
Desirable criteria
  • Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the health needs of a culturally and ethnically diverse urban population with levels of deprivation

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Demonstrate proficient information, written and orally, in a clear and logical manner
  • Reliable and adaptable with excellent interpersonal and communication skill
  • Demonstrate compassionate and followership leadership skills
Desirable criteria
  • Proficient IT skills e.g. Word, Data entry or IT qualification or equivalent

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Alimata Duval
Job title
Operational Lead
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07808878160
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