Integrated Care Assistant

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

We are looking to appoint people who are as passionate about high quality care as we are.

Here at NELFT, embracing a Just and Compassionate Culture is our commitment to our colleagues and to our patients that we will support and promote a culture based on fairness, respect, honesty, and trust, ensuring that we have consistent leadership behaviours and styles across the Trust. Our vision is to create an engaging place to work in partnership, where we value diverse perspectives and work in an environment in which you feel valued, supported, understood, and developed. Our professional relationships are built on a foundation of mutual respect, trust and honesty. 

The Intensive Rehabilitation Service is a large multidisciplinary community team supporting patients to recover after illness. As the Band 7 Manager within IRS, you will lead the bed management team to screen all patients accepted into Meadow Court inpatient rehabilitation beds. This will also involve face to face assessments within our acute partner hospital sites, assessing complex patients to support the patient pathway from hospital discharge into NELFT’s community services. There is an expectation to join the weekend rota. You will support the other staff members, provide training, supervision and joint sessions. The role would be suitable for experienced therapist or nursing staff.

If you are interested in coming to work for NELFT and meet our criteria we would welcome your application.

Main duties of the job

Refer to the Job Description for full responsibilities

1. To prioritise workload, delegate and supervise more junior staff to aid provision of high standard of patient care.

2.Co-ordinate patient flows in and out of hospital maintaining the highest clinical standards.

3.To ensure that every ward has in place a System to capture a real time bed state of their admissions, discharges and predicted discharges, such as the Midnight bed return and capacity management system (CMS).

4.To have a wide range of knowledge in approaches to communicating and managing patient care.

5.Ensure junior staff are actively supported to enable them to achieve their learning needs as discussed in appraisals and regular supervision sessions.

6.Ability to travel effectively to acute hospitals to complete face to face assessments when appropriate.

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).

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 focussing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.

High Cost Area Supplement - Outer London

This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (with a minimum of £4,551 to a maximum of £5,735 pro rata for part time).

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 see full job description for more details. 

The expectation of this post holder will be to support their team, department, and organisation to achieve the Trust’s Values in their day-to-day work. These are the 5P’s: 

●Putting people first

●Prioritising quality

●Being progressive, innovative, and continually improve

●Being professional and honest

●Promoting what is possible – independence, opportunity, and choice.

The post holder will achieve this by:

The post holder will achieve this by working as part of the Intensive Rehabilitation Service (IRS) and inpatient rehabilitation service based at Meadow Court (Goodmayes Hospital) to provide high quality, timely rehabilitation for patients both in an inpatient environment and in their own homes. Providing high quality, patient-centred, goal orientated rehabilitation, demonstrating independence and self-management throughout the continuum of care. The post holder will complete timely onward referrals to other community services including health and social care to ensure the safe management of the patient when completing their rehab episode of care.

If successful you will be able to provide supervision, structure, and support to junior members of staff to assist them to achieve the above based in inpatient rehabilitation setting and the community.

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.

Person specification

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At least 4-5 years of relevant clinical NHS experience - with at least some of this at band 6 level

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Non medical prescriber

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To be able to effectively travel to acute sites as needed

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BSC in nursing, physio or OT

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HCPC or NMC registration

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Evidence of CPD that is maintained

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Previous experience managing a team

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Completion and partaking in audits and service development to support clinical governance

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awareness of NHS plans/priorities/ policies

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IT skills

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 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.

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