Clinical Practitioner - Rapid Response Team

NELFT NHS Foundation Trust

About

NELFT NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health and community services for over 4.9 million people living in the London Boroughs of Waltham Forest, Redbridge, Barking and Dagenham, Havering, and across Essex and Kent.

We work to ensure our patients, their friends and family, feel confident that their health needs are well met. With an excellent reputation for research and development, our skilled health professionals are at the cutting edge of evidence-based innovation, opening up the possibilities for better ways of working and delivery of care.

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Key details

Location

SiteWoodbury Unit, 1st FloorAddressJames Lane LeytonstoneTownLeytonstonePostcodeE11 1NRMajor / Minor RegionLondon

Contract type & working pattern

ContractPermanentHoursFull time - 37.5 hours per week (Shifts pattern to cover the service 24 hrs 7 days a week, including nights.)

Salary

Salary£35,392 - £42,618 pa pro rata (plus HCAS)Salary periodYearlyGrade(NHS AfC: Band 6)

Specialty

Main areaCommunity

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, inthis video

Job overview

Are you a Paramedic or Registered Nurse interested in developing a career in Urgent Community Response Service?

Do you want to develop your clinical and leadership skills in a dynamic environment in a community setting?

Our Community Rapid Response Team based in Waltham Forest East London is expanding.

Urgent response community multidisciplinary team consists of nurses, allied health, social care professionals delivering health and social care 24 hours a day 7 days a week. The aim of the team is provided clinical and social care outside of hospital settings to people in their own homes within 0- 2 hrs in line with the national Urgent care standard.

This role will focus on providing clinical care to people in their own homes.

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• To work collaboratively with health and social care professionals.
• To carry out health and social care assessments.
• To work as an autonomous practitioner and be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of their professional and clinical work, within agreed national local and professional standards and guidelines.
• To accept referrals from other disciplines unsupervised and co-ordinate intensive and complex packages of care with other multi-disciplinary (MDT) agencies
• To use enhanced skills and knowledge 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.
• To undertake risk assessments, on every visit, to ensure the safety of both staff and patients establishing the safety or otherwise of the patients ability to stay at home, or return home safely from another care setting, providing and arranging necessary nursing and supportive packages of care.
• To develop and implement evidenced based clinical/ therapeutic interventions based on best practice, specialist knowledge, experience and specific training to improve health outcomes and promote choice.

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

The remit of the Rapid Response Team is to provide a 2hour urgent care community response to people during periods of acute illness and or reablement in order to prevent hospital admission or to facilitate early discharge. The Team works as a partner within a wider multi-disciplinary team which includes General Practitioners, Consultants, District Nurses, Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Community Psychiatric Nurses, Social Workers, London Ambulance Service and the Voluntary Sector.

The postholder will work collaboratively with and support members of the multidisciplinary team in the delivery, development and management of complex health and social care issues. In particular they will be responsible for ensuring the timely provision of a high standard of nursing assessment, advice, planning, implementation, training support and evaluation of care taking into account the social context in which the person lives. They will therefore be engaged in the planning and delivery of collaborative care packages that cross the health and social care boundaries.

The post holder will be able to carry out a full physical assessment including all first line diagnostics. They will be expected to demonstrate and apply a broad range of nursing/clinical knowledge, interventions and skills. Knowledge of the principles of health promotion and preventing illness will be fundamental as will having a comprehensive understanding of the roles of others in health and social care.

The post holder will lead the team for allocated shifts and provide support to Operational lead/ Senior Clinical Practitioners, both clinically and in terms of daily operational management.

The post holder will be expected to support their team, department and organisation to achieve the Trust’s Values in their day to day work. These are the 5P’s:

• Putting people first
• Prioritising quality
• Being progressive, innovative and continually improve
• Being professional and honest
• Promoting what is possible – independence, opportunity and choice

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

Benefits

We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:

• A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff.
• A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our effortsto support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a ‘Top 10 Family Friendly Employer’ from the Working Families Charity.
• Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.
• Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link .

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.

Supporting our Armed Forces

We recognise the valuable contribution that the Armed Forces community make to our organisation. We have signed the Armed Forces Covenant and achieved Gold Award under the Armed Forces Employer Recognition Scheme. We have supportive policies, guaranteed interview schemes for veterans. reservists and military spouses and give additional leave to our Reservists so that they can attend their annual camp.

Equal opportunities employer

We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity and positively encourage applications from all sections of the community regardless of any protected characteristic.

We are a Disability Confident employer and have made the pledge to commit to employing more people with disabilities. If you require this application in another format i.e. Braille or audio tape please contact the recruitment team on 0300 300 1530 or email [email protected] .

Correspondence with us

You are advised to regularly check your emails (including any junk mail/spam folders) for correspondence related to this post.

As part of our recruitment process, we may be required to share information you provide on the application form with NHS Counter Fraud Authority (NHSCFA) and/or other organisations for the purpose of the prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of fraud or any other unlawful activity affecting the NHS. We also use third party providers to check and verify your qualifications who may be contacting you on our behalf to verify the same.

Applicant requirements

warning You must have appropriate UK professional registration. info 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.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Registered General Nurse (Adults) / Registered Paramedic
• BSc Hons Community Specialist Practice or equivalent
• Nurse Prescriber/Non-Medical Prescriber or willing to work towards
• Evidence of continuous professional knowledge and skills

Desirable criteria

• Relevant post registration course and experience
• Mentor Qualification
• specialist Community Practice Teacher

Experience

Essential criteria

• significant previous post registration experience
• Demonstrate experience of Interagency and collaborative working across organisational boundaries
• Demonstrate experience of Teaching and assessing individuals and contributing to a positive learning environment
• demonstrate experience of providing complex packages of care and innovative practice
• roactive approach to managing conflict and challenging situations

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• n awareness of NHS national and local Urgent Care Community Response policies, standards
• Awareness of the content and application in practice of the NMC /HCPC Professional Codes
• Demonstrate knowledge of the importance of disease management and rehabilitation in the community .
• act as mentor for pre/post registration students on placement in the team.
• Demonstrate a person centred approach to delivery of clinical care in the community

Skills

Essential criteria

• proficient IT skills eg Microsoft applications and clinical systems e.g. RiO/SystemOne
• excellent interpersonal, communication and leadership skills
• Able to demonstrate a wide range of clinical skills and knowledge relevant to post. E.g clinical observations and interpretation of results
• good organisational and time management skills and ability to prioritise clinical care
• Maintain accurate and contemporaneous records
• effective management of team and prioritising workloads

Other

Essential criteria

• To be aware and demonstrate the Trust Values
• To be able to drive and have access to a car
• act as a positive role model within the team and delivery of care

Documents

• Rapid Response Clinical Practitioner (, 477.4)PDFKB
• NELFT Application - Hints and Tips (, 38.4)PDFKB

Further details / informal visits contact

NameAlimata DuvalJob titleRapid Response Operational LeadEmail address [email protected]Telephone number07808878160