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.
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Job overview
Exciting new opportunities
At NELFT, we have secured significant and long-term Transformation funding and are undertaking an ambitious and exciting programme of co-designing our community respiratory service, with our partners in the CCG and secondary care. Our aim will be to improve and enhance our service delivery to meet the challenges that face our population in Barking and Dagenham, Havering and Redbridge through integration and collaboration. We want to improve patient outcomes across Long Term Conditions, to help our residents lead lives free from the burden of these diseases by having extended access in the community settings to our services 7 days per week, collaborative working with our partners and expanding our multi-disciplinary teams.
We are now recruiting Band 4 senior health care assistant with an interest and/or experience in respiratory. We are looking for Nurses/Physiotherapists/Occupational therapists assistant or health and social care support worker who are passionate about the care they give to patients and who want to make a real difference in delivering respiratory care. You will work in and be supported by a multi-disciplinary care team including nurses, doctors, therapists, and psychologists.
Main duties of the job
1. Participating in the Barking, Havering and Redbridge LTC Respiratory Service providing support to staff and patients where required in different forms, locations and helping the effective running and provision of many aspects of the service.
2. Being responsible for various admin activity including equipment order and stock maintenance, booking of appointments, patient contact in varying forms and communication with clinical lead and other staff.
3. Running reports, review systems, audit, data collections, link working (if required) and policy review where appropriate.
4. Ability to delegate appropriately.
5. Active in-service improvement and development.
6. Able to risk assess patients on an individual basis, advise on appropriate self management, appropriately refer on to other services, able to triage patients with escalation process within competencies.
7. Patient and staff education within competency.
8. Car driving with full UK license will be mandatory
Working for our organisation
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 £4,714 and a maximum payment of £5,941) pro rata for part time staff.
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
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
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further details on this vacancy.
In return, we at NELFT can further offer you access to dedicated and personalised training and development in respiratory speciality, flexible working with our blended approach to new ways of working and an unmissable chance to be part of something great that will shape the delivery of these services for years to come.
If you think you have the right skills, attitude, and enthusiasm that you can bring to this exciting transformation, we would really love to hear from you.
This position will not be supported for visa sponsorship. All applicants are expected to have valid right to work document to work in the UK when applying for this position.
Person specification
Education
Essential criteria
9. Care certificate
10. NVQ level 2 and above or equivalent
Desirable criteria
11. Degree in health related areas
Experience
Essential criteria
12. Experience working in Long term conditions team
13. Knowledge in pulmonary rehabilitation
14. 3 or more years experience as Band 3 health care assistant - Therapy/Nursing
Desirable criteria
15. Oxygen risk assessment and obtaining blood gases
16. Basic knowledge of respiratory medications and inhaler techniques
Skills
Essential criteria
17. Experience in using electronic patient record (RiO)
18. Car driver with full UK driving licence
Desirable criteria
19. Spirometry technique
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:
20. 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.
21. 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.
22. 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.
23. 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.