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
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.
Job overview
Rapid Response Team
Advanced Nurse Practitioner / Advanced Paramedic / Advanced Clinical Practitioner
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.
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 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.
Probationary Period
This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period.
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.
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
- Experience
- Skills / Abilities
- Knowledge
- Registration
Qualifications
- 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.
- Certificate/Diploma in Management Studies Specialist Community Practice Teacher or equivalent.
Experience
- 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.
- Experience of quality improvement processes and clinical audits.
Knowledge
- Demonstrate skills to organise, prioritise clinical caseloads within a multidisciplinary team.
- Demonstrate up to date knowledge and expertise in the speciality.
- Demonstrate a clear vision of the role and the service.
- Demonstrate proficient information, written and orally, in a clear and logical manner.
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the health needs of a culturally and ethnically diverse urban population with levels of deprivation.
Skills
- Demonstrate proficient information, written and orally, in a clear and logical manner.
- Reliable and adaptable with excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- Demonstrate compassionate and followership leadership skills.
- Proficient IT skills e.g. Word, Data entry or IT qualification or equivalent.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
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.
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.
Correspondence with us
You are advised to regularly check your emails (including any junk mail/spam folders) for correspondence related to this post.
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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