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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 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 independent shops. North East London NHS Foundation Trust (NELFT) offers a wealth of opportunities for successful candidates – a great place to work and live.

• 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.
• Applicant to have management experience.
• Acute care experience required.
• 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 carry out joint visits 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 carry out audits within the service.
• Conduct and contribute to Datix investigations / Root Cause Analysis / Serious Incidents and 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.
• High Cost Area Supplement – London: this post also attracts payment for a 15% supplement of the basic salary (minimum £4,313 and a maximum £5,436 per annum pro‑rata).

We 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, staff and their families.

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). NELFT places a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted. All new starters 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 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 Rainham, Essex.