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NELFT NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting a Clinical Nursing Lead for the Young People’s Home Treatment Team at Brookside Acute Services in Goodmayes, Essex. The post holder will be an NMC-registered nurse providing clinical leadership, overseeing assessments, management and discharge of referrals, and ensuring care aligns with national guidance.
The role covers 8am–8pm Monday–Friday with out-of-hours/weekend duties to ensure timely assessments and leadership across acute children’s services,
An exciting opportunity is available for new position for those who are eager to develop their career and gain valuable experience in the Young People's Home Treatment Team as a Clinical Nursing Lead within the Brookside Acute Services. The post holder will be an NMC registered nurse who provides clinical leadership to Young Peoples Home Treatment Team (YPHTT) by ensuring the appropriate assessment, management and discharge of all referrals to the team, overseeing the work of the clinical team alongside MDT. The post holder will ensure all clinical work in the service is carried out to the highest care standards and according to national clinical guidance and evidence-based practice; thereby being professionally and legally accountable. The post holder will be required to cover the core service hours of 8am-8pm, Monday to Friday with an additional expectation to work out of hours, 9am-5pm at weekends to ensure timely, out of hours assessments and clinical leadership across the acute children and young peoples services including Brookside inpatient and Psychiatric Liaison Team.
To provide a comprehensive Young Peoples Home Treatment team, ensuring safe and effective delivery of service and performing to required KPIs, particularly in assisting young people to develop plans of care and make difficult decisions in cases where young people are exhibiting complex psychosocial needs and/or challenging behaviours. To be responsible for the development and implementation of high standards of clinical care ensuring the service provided is needs-led, compliant with national guidance and is viewed positively by service users. To be responsible for undertaking comprehensive clinical assessments of service users, including risk assessment, risk management planning, formulation and ongoing care planning, signposting or onward referral. To ensure that staff members are undertaking the same and doing so through formal and informal supervision, appraisal and regular clinical discussion. To lead on and facilitate regular clinical reviews with the team for those children on a designated clinical pathway. To be responsible for organising and prioritising own and others' workload in the day-to-day allocation of work. To delegate clinical and other tasks appropriately to team members. To deputise at the request of or when required in the Manager's absence. To teach other nursing and non-nursing staff, both in formal and informal settings. Teaching will also be provided to pre-registration students.
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. 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.
Date posted: 19 October 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 7
Salary: £49,387 to £56,515 a year
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: NDD-002345
Job locations: Brookside - Child and adolescent inpatient unit, Goodmayes, Essex, IG3 8XQ, United Kingdom
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 and Essex. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.
The Trust has award-winning equality and diversity initiatives, along with staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest significantly in your development because when you feel valued and supported, we can deliver the highest quality care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been recognised in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for five consecutive years, and hold a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Through our staff networks and training opportunities, we strive to foster a just and compassionate culture at NELFT.
These three values help us to strive to provide the best care by the best people.
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 on engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Goodmayes Hospital.
This post will be subject to a probationary period.
This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (with a minimum of £4,870 to a maximum of £6,137 p.a. pro rata for part time).
Although we are a registered sponsor organisation, we are unable to offer sponsorship for all job roles. Please check your eligibility under the UKVI points-based system. When calculating the basic salary for sponsorship, HCAS (High-Cost Area Supplement) is not included to ensure fairness and consistency within our Trust.
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Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information about this role and working at North East London NHS Foundation Trust. We encourage you to refer to this when completing your application.
We welcome your application even if you do not meet all the criteria listed in the person specification.
Name: Emma Berry
Job title: Service Lead
Contact Number: 0300 555 1156
Email: emma.berry@nhs.net
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Employer name: NELFT North East London Foundation Trust
Employer's website: https://www.nelft.nhs.uk/
For questions about the job, contact: Service Lead, Emma Berry, emma.berry@nhs.net