Team Leader UCRT
About Us
EPUT provides community health, mental health and learning disability services to support more than 3.2 million people living across Bedfordshire, Essex and Suffolk. Also:
- We are among the largest employers in the in the East of England region, with more than 10,000 staff working across more than 200 sites.
- We run the COVID-19 vaccination programme across mid and south Essex and Suffolk and north east Essex.
EPUT was formed on 1 April 2017 following the merger of North Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (NEP) and South Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (SEPT). A new leadership team was established at the Trust in 2020.
Our vision and values
Our Vision
“To be the leading health and wellbeing service in the provision of mental health and community care”.
Our Purpose
“We care for people every day. What we do together, matters”.
Our Values- We Care
- We Learn
- We Empower
- We will deliver safe, high quality integrated care services.
- We will enable each other to be the best that we can.
- We will work together with our partners to make our services better.
- We will help our communities to thrive.
- Mental Health Services
- Community Health Services
- Learning Disabilities Services
- Social Care
Find out more about the services we offer in our service directory.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 6 Team Leader position within the Urgent Community Response Team, South East Essex. The successful applicant will be working to prevent acutely unwell patients attending hospital by supporting them in their own home.Experience in supporting unwell patients is desirable, in return you will gain all necessary training , such as assessment skills.
Main duties of the job
UCRT South East Essex is a community admission avoidance team available 7 days a week that will help patients stay at home when they are feeling unwell rather than be transferred to hospital.
The UCRT SEE team provides specialist nurse and occupational therapy led care in patients own homes. They visit patients within two hours of receiving a referral from a healthcare professional to stabilise their immediate health needs and plan ongoing care and treatment as appropriate.
The Band 6 Team Leader will work as an autonomous practitioner within the UCRT SEE Team supporting the delivery of crisis care and support in patients own homes.
Working for our organisation
EPUT are looking for motivated staff who shares our Trust values of Care, Learn and Empower. In return, EPUT can offer you a range of benefits and development including;- Season Ticket Loans
- NHS discounts for staff
- Excellent Training facilities and opportunities
- Buying and Selling annual leave scheme
- The opportunity to work bank shifts and expand knowledge and experience in other areas
- Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work
- Day One Flexible Employer
Join our Staff bank
What is Staff Bank?
Our EPUT NHS staff bank is an entity managed by the trust that hires clinical and non-clinical healthcare professionals to take on shifts at our trust hospitals and community settings. Here at EPUT we maintain our own bank of specialist staff to ensure that we are able offer safe and effective care at all times.
All our permanent staff are automatically enrolled onto the staff bank however this does not mean you have to work any additional shifts, but the option is there for you if you wish.
If you are joining our Trust in a fixed term role, please indicate on your New Starter Paperwork that you wish to join our staff bank.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To provide clinical leadership and support the UCRT team.
Work autonomously on a daily basis to provide a wide range of healthcare options, to a caseload of patients on the UCRT caseload. Provision of a high quality nursing service to individuals, families, and groups in conjunction with other agencies, across South East Essex.
Work in partnership with GPs and primary healthcare professionals to ascertain diagnosis, plan care and treatment.
Work towards promoting admission avoidance from primary care to the acute Trust.
To practice as a Non-Medical Prescriber and ensure own professional registration is maintained.
On a daily basis, support the Case Managers and Clinical Manager to prioritise the caseload and delegate appropriate work to other team members, providing teaching and clinical supervision when required.
Deputise to Case Manager when required.
Act as UCRT Coordinator and SPA triage nurse on a rotational basis, undertaking triage of referrals from GPs, Paramedics and Community Health Teams.
Support collaboration of UCRT services across Mid and South Essex, which may include working across boundaries.
Responsibility for assessing, planning and providing care to a client group with acute and complex health care needs to ensure the highest standard of care is given which complies with current clinical guidelines and legislation.
Through holistic assessment, instigate and follow up investigations to support safe care within the home setting. Where safe care is not able to be sustained then arrange appropriate transfer to the acute Trust, ensuring a comprehensive handover of care is undertaken.
To work collaboratively with the UCRT Occupational Therapists to support the delivery of holistic care and admission avoidance interventions.
Liaison and coordination of services, working collaboratively with other agencies both voluntary and statutory to provide a seamless service to patients and their carers, being aware of local and national health policies.
Support the Clinical Manager to organise staff rotas and adjust as necessary to ensure adequate cover for the service.
To provide specialist, higher level knowledge and skills to assess, plan, implement and evaluate care of the requirements of the practice/geographical population using a variety of resources and to meet patient’s needs using evidence based practice.
Provide advice and support to home carers in the community on the UCRT caseload.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria- Graduate Diploma or degree nursing
- Assessment and Consultation
- Non medical prescribing
Experience
Essential criteria- Acute and or community experience
- Evidence of Supporting unwell patients
Please note - staff who are formally at risk within the organisation will be given priority in securing alternative employment. Should it come to light that a post being advertised by the Trust is considered ‘suitable alternative employment’ to an individual who is at risk, the recruiting manager will be advised and the post will be withdrawn from NHS Jobs.
Use of Artificial Intelligence (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.
Important Professional References
Make sure that as a part of your application you have professional references with business contract information covering your last three year employment history. We are unable to accept personal or character references.
As a newly appointed employee you are responsible for incurring the cost of your initial DBS check relevant to your post, the amount will be deducted from your first salary with the Trust.
Applications for Job Share are positively welcomed.
Equal Opportunities Employer
Our Trust is an Equal Opportunities Employer. We particularly welcome applications from people with experience of using mental health services. We also hold the Disability two tick symbol and have made the pledge to commit to employing more people with learning disabilities, we encourage people with a disability to apply.If you require this application form in another format i.e. Braille or audio tape etc, please contact the Recruitment Department on 01375 364513 or email [email protected] and we can arrange for this to be dispatched to you.
The Trust has the right to expire vacancies prior to the closing date if they so wish. The Trust makes every attempt to contact all applicants and we strongly advise that you check the email account which is registered with NHS Jobs regularly, we would advise however due to the high number of applications we receive that if you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults, and expect all staff to undertake this commitment. Applicants will be subject to robust safer recruitment processes.
Covid Vaccination
Although Covid vaccinations are no longer a mandatory requirement within the NHS we continue to encourage and support the vaccination uptake as this remains the best line of defence against Covid19. The safety of our staff and patients is a top priority for us at EPUT.
If you would like to book a Covid vaccination or would like more information please contact us by emailing [email protected].