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:
1. Competitive hourly rates and weekly pay;
2. Access to paid annual leave and statutory sick pay;
3. My Trust Benefits discount scheme;
4. Access to the NHS pension scheme;
5. Paid mandatory training;
6. Opportunities for locally agreed training;
7. PAMOVA training for Mental Health staff;
8. Flexibility of hours/location;
9. Priority over agency staff for booking shifts;
10. Free uniform;
11. 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
Essential criteria
12. First level Registered Nurse currently registered with the Nursing & midwifery Council/BSc (Hons) Paramedic Science/Dip HE in Paramedic Science registered with the HCPC
13. Practice educator or other teaching qualification or equivalent experience
Experience
Essential criteria
14. Previous experience as a RN/Paramedic in a band 6 post or equivalent, working as an autonomous practitioner for at least 1 yea
15. Portfolio evidence of professional development and commitment to CPD and commitment to ongoing training, education and mentoring to develop clinical skills.
16. Knowledge and skills to assess patients with complex presentations to arrive at a clinical decision.
17. Excellent communication skills including influencing, negotiation and empathic.
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:
18. 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.
19. 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.
20. 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.
21. 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.