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 five 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
The Lower Limb Service Nurse Co-ordinator is an exciting role for a Registered Nurse (RN12-NMC) responsible for patients allocated to them and will assess, manage, plan and deliver care, including being professionally and legally accountable.
The post holder will achieve this by offering specific lower limb advice and support to patients and their care givers, with a particular focus on coordinating the lower limb care service offer in the Locality team.
Main duties of the job
The post holder, with the support of the team lead, will lead and manage the lower limb service within the Locality team and be responsible for the management of the service caseload ensuring the provision of a high standard of nursing care to patients and their families in the community.
He/she will work as part of the integrated community health care team, working within and across professional and organisational boundaries. Liaising with GPs, other professionals and statutory and voluntary agencies he/she will deliver individualised care to patients.
The Lower Limb Service Nurse Coordinator works without direct supervision and provides leadership to the community nursing team supporting the service, with the support of the team lead.
Working for our organisation
Our Values 2025 - 2030
Working with our colleagues, patients and carers, we have co-produced three new values that we aim to embed within our culture here at NELFT.
They are:
1. We are kind.
2. We are respectful.
3. We work together with our communities
Probationary Period
This post will be subject to a probationary period.
High Cost Area Supplement – London
This post also attracts payment for High-Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary. (minimum payment of £4,714 to a maximum of £5,941 - Per annum, pro rata for part time.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Detailed Job Description and Main responsibilities
Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information about this role and working at Northeast 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.
Certificates of Sponsorship
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Use of AI
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Person specification
Knowledge
Essential criteria
4. An awareness of NHS Plan, NSF and clinical governance priorities
5. Awareness of the content and application in practice of the NMC code of professional conduct
6. Extensive range of clinical skills including assessment
7. Manage, implement and evaluate complex health care needs and make recommendations
8. Understand the importance of disease management and rehabilitation in the community
9. Effective management of team members, planning and delegating of caseload appropriately
10. An understanding of working within budgetary and resource constraints
11. Aware of current policy and professional, primary and social care issues
12. An understanding of clinical governance and its application in practice
13. Provide statistical data and reports as required for service delivery
14. Understand the need for confidentiality when relating patients condition to relatives
15. Ensure all risks are assessed and appropriate action taken to eliminate any risks
16. Make recommendations as necessary and improve service delivery
Qualifications
Essential criteria
17. Current NMC registration – Registered Nurse (RN)
18. Nurse Prescriber/Non medical Prescriber or willing to undertake
19. Post Graduate qualification in relevant field
20. Mentorship Qualification
21. Evidence of continuous professional development
Desirable criteria
22. Specialist Community Practitioner (District Nursing) Qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
23. Extensive experience of working within adult services
24. Experience of providing support and supervision to community team members
25. Experience of facilitating groups/meetings
26. Evidence of teaching and assessing individuals
27. Project leadership experience
28. Evidence of providing complex package pf care
29. Evdience of innovations in practise
30. Ability to mange staff conflict and difficult situations
31. Experience of ensuring practise is evidence based
32. Experience of clinical audit
Other
Essential criteria
33. To be aware and demonstrate the Trust Values.
34. To be able to travel efficiently throughout the area
35. Involvement in providing learning environment for students
36. Enthusiastic approach and ability to enthuse others to develop and increase their responsibilities within the team
37. Excellent role model
38. Able to work flexibly and respond to changing demands in workload/environment
39. Approachable
40. Applicant will need to be a car driver with valid UK licence with access to vehicle for work
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:
41. 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.
42. 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.
43. 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.
44. 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.