Bank - Advanced Nurse/Emergency Care Practitioner
Band 7
Main area Acute hospital avoidance nursing care Grade Band 7 Contract Bank Hours Flexible working - As and When Job ref 395-BANK754-APR25
Site Various Town London & Essex Salary £24.82 plus HCAS Salary period Hourly Closing 01/05/2025 23:59
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
The Urgent Care Centre provides a 7-day a week, 24-hours a day service for 365 days a year working shifts, where appropriate and operationally required with the aim to avoid hospital admission through clinical assessment or streaming to primary care/acute services when possible.
The post holder will be a Registered Specialist Nurse (Advance Nurse Practitioner/Emergency Nurse Practitioner) responsible for patients and will assess, manage, plan and deliver care, including being professionally and legally accountable.
The post holder will be expected to work collaboratively with key partner organisations, service users, carers, clinicians and other practitioners within the multi-disciplinary team in delivering services within an Urgent Care setting in a widely diverse locality.
Main duties of the job
1. Responsible for the day to day management of the Urgent Care Centre service including supervision of the nursing team to ensure smooth operational running of the service.
2. To deputise when required in the team managers absence
3. To have organisational knowledge relating to Trust protocols and procedures and adhere to them
4. To be responsible for providing accurate records of information required by the Trust for audit purposes.
5. To ensure effective risk management at team level by accident/incident reporting, assessing and controlling risk and ensuring residual risks are added to the Trust register.
6. To provide specialist advanced assessment care and treatment to people with attending the Urgent Care Centre and offer advice, guidance and streaming to patients to utilise community and acute areas of care.
Working for our organisation
We operate a Temporary Staffing service and offer our Bank Staff excellent benefits including:
* Competitive hourly rates and weekly pay;
* Access to paid annual leave and statutory sick pay;
* Access to the NHS pension scheme;
* Paid mandatory training;
* Opportunities for locally agreed training;
* PAMOVA training for Mental Health staff;
* Flexibility of hours/location;
* Priority over agency staff for booking shifts;
* Free uniform;
* Opportunity to apply for permanent posts.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The main duties of the job are outlined fully in the attached job description.
Please contact temporary staffing recruitment for any queries.
Person specification
Qualification
* First level Registered Nurse currently registered with the Nursing & midwifery Council/BSc (Hons) Paramedic Science/Dip HE in Paramedic Science registered with the HCPC
* Practice educator or other teaching qualification or equivalent experience
Experience
* Previous experience as a RN/Paramedic in a band 6 post or equivalent, working as an autonomous practitioner for at least 1 yea
* Portfolio evidence of professional development and commitment to CPD and commitment to ongoing training, education and mentoring to develop clinical skills.
* Knowledge and skills to assess patients with complex presentations to arrive at a clinical decision.
* Excellent communication skills including influencing, negotiation and empathic.
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.
We recognise the valuable contribution that the Armed Forces community make to our organisation. We have signed the Armed Forces Covenant and achieved Gold Award under the Armed Forces Employer Recognition Scheme. We have supportive policies, guaranteed interview schemes for veterans. reservists and military spouses and give additional leave to our Reservists so that they can attend their annual camp.
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.If you require this application in another format i.e. Braille or audio tape please contact the recruitment team on 0300 300 1530 or email recruitment@nelft.nhs.uk.
Correspondence with us
You are advised to regularly check your emails (including any junk mail/spam folders) for correspondence related to this post.
As part of our recruitment process, we may be required to share information you provide on the application form with NHS Counter Fraud Authority (NHSCFA) and/or other organisations for the purpose of the prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of fraud or any other unlawful activity affecting the NHS. We also use third party providers to check and verify your qualifications who may be contacting you on our behalf to verify the same.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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.
Name Temporary Staffing Recruitment Team Job title Recruitment Officer Email address temporarystaffingrecruitment@nelft.nhs.uk Telephone number 0300 300 1530
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