About this role
Job summary An exciting opportunity is available for new position for those who are eager to develop their career and gain valuable experience in the Young People's Home Treatment Team as a Clinical Nursing Lead within the Brookside Acute Services.
The post holder will be an NMC registered nurse who provides clinical leadership to Young Peoples Home Treatment Team (YPHTT) by ensuring the appropriate assessment, management and discharge of all referrals to the team, overseeing the work of the clinical team alongside MDT. The post holder will ensure all clinical work in the service is carried out to the highest care standards and according to national clinical guidance and evidence-based practice; thereby being professionally and legally accountable. The post holder will be required to cover the core service hours of 8am-8pm, Monday to Friday with an additional expectation to work out of hours, 9am-5pm at weekends to ensure timely, out of hours assessments and clinical leadership across the acute children and young peoples services including Brookside inpatient and Psychiatric Liaison Team.
Main duties of the job To provide a comprehensive Young Peoples Home Treatment team, ensuring safe a effective delivery of service and performing to required KPIs, particularly in assisting young people to develop plans of care and make difficult decisions in cases where young people are exhibiting complex psychosocial needs and/or challenging behaviors.
To be responsible for the development and implementation of high standards of clinical care ensuring the service provided is needs-led, compliant with national guidance and is viewed positively by service users.
To be responsible for undertaking comprehensive clinical assessments of service users, including risk assessment, risk management planning, formulation and ongoing care planning, signposting or onward referral. To ensure that staff members are undertaking the same doing so through formal and informal supervision, appraisal and regular clinical discussion.
To lead on and facilitate regular clinical reviews with the team for those Children on a designated clinical pathway.
To be responsible for organising and prioritising own and others workload in the day-today allocation of work. To delegate clinical and other tasks appropriately to team members.
To deputise at request of or when required in the Managers absence.
To teach other nursing and non-nursing staff, both in formal and informal settings. Teaching will also be provided to pre-registration students.
About us
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.
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.
Job description Job responsibilities
Key Responsibilities:
To have organisational knowledge relating to Trust protocols and procedures and adhere to them, including knowledge and application of administration of medicine and moving and handling.
To be responsible for providing accurate records of information required by the Trust for record-keeping and audit purposes.
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.
To provide specialist clinical expertise within own occupation.
To provide specialist clinical advice to other team members on the suitability of carious assessments and intervention methods where appropriate.
To act at all times as a role model in their clinical specialism, raising the profile and value of the role they provide, both to own team and to acute services and community colleagues.
To support the Trust values in their day-to-day role.
To take full line management responsibility for staff of Band 6 level and under, including regular supervision, appraisal and performance management.
To be responsible for specific clinical and managerial projects and undertake all necessary work to complete these, including facilitating meetings, liaising and/or negotiating with other staff.
To initiate and participate in audit and quality improvement projects associated with the work of the service.
To ensure the service reputation is maintained by way of upholding professional conduct, clinical expertise and responsiveness of self and staff within the service.
Working for Us 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 and Essex. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.
The Trust has award-winning equality and diversity initiatives, along with staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest significantly in your development because when you feel valued and supported, we can deliver the highest quality care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been recognised in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for five consecutive years, and hold a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Through our staff networks and training opportunities, we strive to foster a just and compassionate culture at NELFT.
Our Values 2025 - 2030 Working with our colleagues, patients and carers we have co-produced three new values that we aim to embed within our culture here at NELFT. They are:
We are kind. We are respectful. We work together with our communities. These three values help us to strive to provide the best care by the best people.
Starting with NELFT NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starterswill 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 on engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Goodmayes Hospital.
Probationary Period This post will be subject to a probationary period.
High Cost Area Supplement – Outer London (B&D, Goodmayes, Redbridge, Havering and Waltham Forest) This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (with a minimum of £4,870 to a maximum of £6,137 p.a. pro rata for part time).
Certificates of Sponsorship Although we are a registered sponsor organisation, we are unable to offer sponsorship for all job roles. Please check your eligibility under the UKVI points-based system. When calculating the basic salary for sponsorship, HCAS (High-Cost Area Supplement) is not included to ensure fairness and consistency within our Trust.
Use of AI
We value applications that genuinely reflect each candidate’s own skills, experience and motivations. We therefore strongly discourage the use of AI-generated content in applications.
Applications should be written in your own words and accurately represent your knowledge, skills and experience.
We reserve the right to reject an application where we reasonably believe AI has been used to generate or materially contribute to its content.
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 to this when completing your application.
We welcome your application even if you do not meet all the criteria listed in the person specification. Please apply as soon as possible as some posts close early to limit the number of applications.
For an informal chat or to arrange a visit, please contact:
Name: Emma Berry
Job title: Service Lead
Contact Number: 0300 555 1156
Email: [email protected]
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
RMN, RLDN Other specific job-related post registration qualification.
Desirable
Evidence of further CPD/training related to CAMHS
Experience Essential
At least two years experience at B6 Experience of working in CAMHS Experience of working in Psychiatric Liaison Services Experience of providing clinical and management supervision
Please see person specification on the job description for further information.
Desirable
Experience at B7.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details Employer name NELFT North East London Foundation Trust
Address Brookside - Child and adolescent inpatient unit
Goodmayes
Essex
IG3 8XQ
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.nelft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)