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About
NELFT NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health and community services for over 4.9 million people living in the London Boroughs of Waltham Forest, Redbridge, Barking and Dagenham, Havering, and across Essex and Kent.
We work to ensure our patients, their friends and family, feel confident that their health needs are well met. With an excellent reputation for research and development, our skilled health professionals are at the cutting edge of evidence-based innovation, opening up the possibilities for better ways of working and delivery of care.
Clinical Lead Nurse
Accepting applications until: 10-Jul-2024 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 10-Jul-2024 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- Maggie Lilley
- Address
- Goodmayes Hospital
- Town
- 157 Barley Lane
- Postcode
- IG3 8XJ
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job share
Salary
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 per annum (Plus HCAS) pro-rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 7)
Specialty
- Main area
- Mental Health
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
NELFT would like to introduce the launch of the Intensive Support Team, which aims to support people with a Learning Disability and Autism who requires specialist crisis intervention. We believe that individuals who display challenging behaviours, including those with a mental health condition, should have the same opportunities to live satisfying and valued lives.
The service was developed in response to the best means of supporting our people with a learning disability and autism at a critical time in their journey, offering the least restrictive environment and ensuring that we provide the best response to those users of the service who needs specialist support, together with their carers and families.
The post holder will hold a relevant clinical qualification to a degree level in Learning Disability and have experience working within Learning Disability and Autism services.
Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team, they will manage a caseload of patients with learning disability and mental health needs, using evidence-based practice.
They are required to take a lead role in the leadership of junior staff and support assistants through supervision, training and appraisal.
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- Provide a range of interventions and assessments of people who have a learning disability and present with a mental illness and or severe challenging behaviour, taking into consideration the patient’s physical/cognitive/perceptual skills to identify the patient’s abilities and areas of difficulty.
- Expected to work within a values-driven, recovery-based approach that embeds the Positive Behaviour Support framework. Post holders will have experience working with people who have a learning disability and either mental ill-health and complex behavioural needs
- To be responsible for organising and prioritising own caseload in the day-to-day allocation of work whilst being able to work flexibly to meet the needs of their patients, their relatives and carers and the service.
- To deputise when required in the absence of the Team/Service Lead and delegate appropriately to more junior staff members, support workers and rehabilitation assistants as appropriate.
- To have organisational knowledge relating to Trust protocols and procedures and adhere to them.
- To be responsible for providing accurate records of information required by the Trust for audit purposes.
- To ensure effective team-level risk management by accident/incident reporting, assessing and controlling risk and ensuring residual risks are added to the Trust register.
Full details are in the Job Description.
Working for our organisation
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).
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.
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 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 closely to this when completing your application.
We welcome your application even if you do not meet all the criteria listed in the person specification. Any development needs to help you succeed in the role, can be discussed at the interview stage.
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:
- 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 efforts to 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.
Supporting our Armed Forces
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 [email protected].
Correspondence with us
You are advised to regularly check your emails (including any junk mail/spam folders) for correspondence related to this post.
In the event of a high number of responses to any advert, NELFT reserves the right to close the vacancy early. If you do not hear from us within three weeks of the closing date then please assume you have not been successful on this occasion.
Applicant requirements
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.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- First Level Registered Learning Disability Nurse
- Current professional Registration
- Evidence of further study at post-graduate level or equivalent experience (particularly around Positive Behaviour Support)
- Evidence of Continuous Professional Development
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to work in a recovery focused model autonomously, make decisions and effectively manage own caseload
- Advanced clinical reasoning skills – ability to decide and establish appropriate action in allocation of workload and other clinical decisions
- Display effective communication skills- and an ability to work in a flexible proactive manner to respond to the needs of the service . This will include having and enthusiastic and committed approach to service user involvement in care and delivery of service
- Organisational skills: To be innovative and work on own initiative and prioritise own workload
- Time management skills – ability to prioritise and implement management strategies for self and others
- Leadership skills - Ability to manage staff and delegate work appropriately
- Ability to provide staff with managerial and appropriate clinical supervision. Ensuring staff are in receipt of professional supervision with the respective professional supervisor To use own supervision effectively
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- An awareness of national policies and legislation and local drivers within mental health services
- Demonstrate specialist clinical knowledge and experience in the field of learning disability and autism
- Knowledge of the Mental Health Act 1983; Mental Capacity Act, Care Act and related codes of practice and guidance
- Understanding of Personalisation agendas , recovery models and Transforming Care agenda and evidence based practice
- Knowledge of Codes of Professional Conduct
- Knowledge of the models and principles of care used in relation to Transforming Care and Crisis Intervention
Experience
Essential criteria
- Minimum 4 years post qualification experience within a learning disability setting
- Experience of working within the LDA pathway with evidence of completing high quality assessments, care planning including Risk management
- Extensive experience of undertaking complex mental state assessment, risk and needs assessment with people with LDA
- Experience of providing managerial and clinical supervision to junior colleagues
Other
Essential criteria
- To be aware and demonstrate the Trust Values
- To be able to travel efficiently throughout the area and across the boroughs
- Team Worker: Able to work effectively and flexibly in a team and variety of environments
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Darren Savarimuthu
- Job title
- Associate Director of Nursing & Quality
- Email address
- [email protected]
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