Rapid Response Team
Advanced Nurse Practitioner /Advanced Paramedic / Advanced Clinical Practitioner
Waltham Forest Adults Community Health Services - Unplanned Care
NELFT Waltham Forest would like to offer you a new and exciting opportunity to join the Waltham Forest Rapid Response Team.
Rapid Response Team is a progressive and innovative multidisciplinary team aimed at supporting the population of Waltham Forest, providing urgent Multidisciplinary (MDT) response to prevent avoidable hospital admissions. The team works across 7 days a week, 24 hours a day.
The aim is to support and treat suitable patients in the community, with a range of escalated health and social care needs.
Waltham Forest is a diverse and multicultural borough in outer London with lots of green space and a thriving local market and independents shops. North East London NHS Foundation Trust (NELFT) offers a wealth of opportunities for successful candidates making it a great place to work and live.
Previous applications need not apply.
You will
- Work collaboratively with health and social care professionals across the borough and Integrated Care System.
- Lead Clinical decision making and undertake enhanced holistic assessment of patient/family needs in partnership with the patient and their family/carer.
- Triage referrals from other agencies or disciplines
- Co-ordinate intensive and complex nursing care with other multi-disciplinary agencies.
- Applicant to have management experience.
- Acute care experience required.
- Be proficient in advanced clinical skills and knowledge with the ability to assess the physical and psychosocial needs and develop a comprehensive and concordant plan of care with the patient, their carers and the wider MDT as needed.
- Work collaboratively and carryout joint visits members with MDT colleagues within the team to promote holistic person-centred assessment and approach to care
- Participate and complete managerial and clinical supervision
- Provide line management supervision to members of the Rapid Response multidisciplinary team
- Contribute towards and carryout audits within the service
- Conduct and contribute to Datix investigations/ Root Cause Analysis/ Serious Incidents and to help support any lessons learnt within the service
- Support and mentor pre-registration learners from a variety of disciplines
- Be a driver and have access to a car.
If you are interested and would like to discuss the role, please contact
Alimata Duval Rapid Response Operational Lead
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