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Job summary

Main area
Rapid Response
Grade
Band 3
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Shifts Patterns covering a 24 hrs service 7 days a week)
Job ref
395-WF899-23-D
Employer
NELFT NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Rapid Response Team, Woodbury Unit, First Floor.
Town
Leytonstone
Salary
£22,816 - £24,336 plus HCAS per annum (pro rata)
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
25/11/2024 23:59

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NELFT NHS Foundation Trust logo

Health Care Support Worker - WF Rapid Response

Band 3

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

Rapid Response Team

Health Care Support Worker. 

Waltham Forest Adults Community Health Services – Unplanned Care

37.5  hours per week

Are you a caring and confident individual  with enthusiasm and a wish to deliverer person cantered care in the community, alongside a flexible welcoming multidisciplinary team

Working as part of the Waltham Forest Rapid Response team you will experience a rewarding and varied day, everyday.

Waltham Forest Rapid Response Team is 24 hours 7days a week multidisciplinary service, providing a crisis response service with a two hour response to referrals from various health and social care organisations and GPs.

The service aims to: avoid unnecessary hospital admissions; support hospital discharges; provide unplanned nursing/therapy care 24/7 including crisis management for patients at the end of their life and pick up falls in their own home.

Main duties of the job

You will

  • Work collaboratively with health and social care professionals across the borough and Integrated Care System.
  • Liaise with other teams/organisation to plan joint care and safe discharges
  • Support the delivery of complex nursing  care with other multi-disciplinary agencies.
  • Delivering aspects of community based interventions across nursing, social and therapy specialities.
  • Be able to develop and extend your skills into areas where you may have less knowledge and/or experience. A willingness to learn is therefore key.
  • Work collaboratively and carryout joint visits with MDT colleagues within the team to promote holistic person-centred assessment and approach to care
  • Participation in clinical supervision
  • Be supportive of colleagues
  • Contribute towards and carryout audits within the service
  • Report incidents appropriately using trust and national frameworks and  help support any lessons learnt within the service.
 
Applicants are required to evidence a full UK driving licence and the ability to travel to a variety of sites across Waltham Forest. (This criteria will be reasonably adjusted to meet the requirements of a disabled applicant)
 
 

If you would like to discuss the post please contact Alimata Duval on 07808878160

Working for our organisation

Starting with NELFT
NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop in sessions focusing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.

COVID-19 Vaccination
We continue to encourage all staff to ensure that they have been double vaccinated and received their booster. We recognise that taking the vaccine provides the best defence against COVID 19 for our patients, our staff and their families.


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 – London
This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (minimum payment of £4,313 and a maximum payment of £5,436 per annum pro rata).


Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further details on this vacancy.

 

 

 

Person specification

A.C. as per Person Spec

Essential criteria
  • Experience
  • Skills / Abilities
  • Knowledge
Desirable criteria
  • Experience

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Previous healthcare and NHS experience
Desirable criteria
  • Transferable skills from previous experience

Skills and abilities

Essential criteria
  • Excellent communication skills with Basic awareness of IT and IT skills

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Basic understanding of the patients’ nursing/therapy needs.
Desirable criteria
  • Basic knowledge of Urgent Community Response

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Employers for CarersApprenticeships logoAge positiveDisability confident employerHappy to Talk Flexible WorkingDefence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - GoldEmployers Network for Equality & InclusionTop Employers for Working Families 2021Top 10 Employer 2023

Applicant requirements

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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Alimata Duval
Job title
Operational Lead
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07808878160
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