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
A core aim of the Urgent Community Response Team is to reduce the number of avoidable attendances to A&E and admissions to hospital, and support early discharges from hospital, providing more effective crisis care pathways closer to home in the community.
The service is a Home First service model based on the principle of supporting an acute health and social care crisis in the patient’s home environment with prompt specialist intervention to avoid unnecessary unplanned admission to hospital.
Our response time is 2 hours of receiving referrals. A timely response will also ensure people maintain their independence. It may be appropriate to arrange an admission to a community hospital bed or interim/respite stay in a care home, to avoid an admission to acute hospital in some circumstances, dependent on availability and transport.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be a Registered Nurse (RN12-NMC) or Paramedic (HCPC) who will have significant intermediate care experience at Band 5 or 6. Must possess Clinical Assessment Skills, Minor Illness and either Non-Medical Prescriber or working towards qualifications. The post holder will demonstrate safe clinical decision making and expert care for the patients registered within the service. The post holder will be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of care from initial history taking through to treatment. They will be responsible for patients allocated to them and will assess, manage and deliver care to meet the complex needs for those patients requiring intermediate care and primary care services. The post holder will be able to manage and support their peers, working on their own initiative and but also an effective team member along with the requirements of pre-registration students. They will be committed to working collaboratively, actively supporting and liaising with other health, social professionals and other agencies.
As senior nurse you will be clinical as well as managing shifts in the absence of Band 7
You will also have supervision responsibilities.
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.
These three values help us to strive to provide the best care by the best people.
Probationary Period
This post will be subject to a probationary period.
High Cost Area Supplement - Fringe
This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 5% of the basic salary (with a minimum of £1,192 to a maximum of £2,011 pro rata for part time).
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1.To be responsible for organising and prioritising own and others workload and day to day allocation of work along with forward planning and delegation relating to service delivery.
2.To act when required as manager for the team of clinical staff which may include registered nurses and health care assistants.
3.To organise team off duty and annual leave and ensure others are not disadvantaged.
4.To ensure positive returns and mileage are completed and submitted on time.
5.To have organisational knowledge relating to trust protocols and procedures and ensure these guide staff.
6.To be able to deal with minor grievances and be guided by trust policy where appropriate.
7.To be responsible for providing accurate documentation for audit purposes.
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. Please apply as soon as possible as some posts close early to limit the number of applications.
Certificates of Sponsorship
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.
Use of AI
Please see attached document regarding acceptable use of AI during the recruitment process.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
4. Degree in Nursing/Paramedics or equivalent
5. Must be NMP/HCPC Registered
6. Minimum of Two years post qualification
Desirable criteria
7. Leadership Experience
8. Community Experience
9. A full UK Driver's License.
Essential Criteria
Essential criteria
10. Must be NMC/HCPC Registered
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:
11. 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.
12. 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.
13. 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.
14. 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.