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 Assistant Practitioner / HCA / Hybrid worker 

We are seeking a motivated and dynamicBand 4 HCA or Hybrid worker ,with an interest in general physical health for this exciting opportunity to join the Waltham Forest Rapid Response team

 The Rapid response is a forward-thinking and innovative service that is community based and works in a fully integrated way, with nurses physiotherapists, occupational therapists, social workers community psychiatric nurse and healthcare support all working side by side to ensure an integrated and holistic approach to the care of people accessing our service.

The team is expanding in response to the new national Urgent care standards so this is the perfect time to join a progressive and innovative multidisciplinary team aimed to support the population of Waltham Forest, providing urgent Multidisciplinary (MDT) response within 0-2 hours to prevent avoidable hospital admissions. The team works across 7 days a week, 24 hours a day and requires flexible working across various shifts. 

You will be required to use your own car and work mileage and parking are claimable.

Main duties of the job

You will be expected to carry out clinical visits including falls pick up to patients in their own homes and residential and care homes under the direction of the nurses/therapist delivering a variety of nursing and therapy skills to the patients home environment and work as part of the multidisciplinary team.

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

 The right candidate will have :

2 years experience either as a rehab assistant/Practitioner or as HCA/Nurse associate Established and competent extended practice at band 3 A desire to learn and support new ways of working As the role spans a wide MDT, remit in-house training will be offered as required for identified skill gaps.

The successful applicant must be flexible, a good team worker, used to working under pressure, have excellent interpersonal and IT skills and be able to communicate effectively with patients, carers and other members of the MDT.

We are interested in hearing from both assistant practitioners and nurse associate’s with proven clinical and communication skills to work as part of our friendly, supportive and innovative team. Previous experience in a community setting in the NHS is highly desirable but not essential.

Working for our organisation

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 on engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.

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).

High-Cost Area Supplement

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) (pro rata for part time staff).

Use of AI

Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

We can offer the successful candidate:

Regular clinical and managerial supervision and support A programme of In-service training and exciting development opportunities Opportunity for service development and audit Agile working devices to support community based working Childcare support and voucher

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 closely to this when completing your application.

We welcome your application even if you do not meet all the criteria listed in the person specification. Any development needs to help you succeed in the role, can be discussed at the interview stage.

Person specification

essential

Essential criteria

qualification of assistant practitioner or nurse associate NHS experinece in a hospital or community setting

Desirable criteria

Car driver interest in the community

Desirable

Desirable criteria

minimum of 2 years experience

Essential

Essential criteria

Experience of working in the NHS

Experience

Essential criteria

minimum 2 years experience as a band 3 Previous nursing/therapy experience setting

Knowledge

Essential criteria

Basic understanding of the patients’ nursing/therapy needs.

Desirable criteria

Awareness of community issues.

Skills/ Abilities

Essential criteria

Basic nursing and therapy skills

Desirable criteria

willing to develop new/additional skills

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.