Homeless Health Outreach Nurse: RGN

Job overview

The post is part of an initiative to improve the quality and culture of care provided, and to enhance the therapeutic offer available, to people who are street homeless  in boroughs of Barnet, Enfield and Haringey  through:

• Providing a responsive service that will identify mental and physical health problems.
• Working in collaboration with other services to deliver care and interventions, based on clinical need, at the right time.
• Providing interventions to support people to move off the streets and to facilitate them to sustain a more settled lifestyle.
• Referring patients on to the most appropriate service and to support them until accepted.
• Ensuring that all service users are registered with a GP.
• Undertaking health assessments, administering medication and treatments, and performing diagnostic tests.
• Providing and evaluating a range of health interventions to ensure that patients health and social care needs are met.
• Delivering  a high standard of patient care, using advanced autonomous clinical skills, and a broad and in- depth theoretical knowledge base.
• Assessing, diagnosing and treating patients conditions, initiating direct referrals as appropriate.
• As a vital part of our MDT team, you will be supporting and caring for a diverse patient group.

Key elements of our work will be:

• Early detection, support and management of long-term conditions
• Annual health checks/screening programmes
• Health promotion
• Healthy lifestyles
• Physical activities / social prescribing

Main duties of the job

• Provide high quality care to patients with both physical and mental health difficulties
• Independently manage a caseload of patients who may have long term or complex multiple physical health needs
• Support the delivery of physical healthcare training in collaboration with the head of physical health team
• Take charge on a regular basis and assist in the supervision and/or development of junior staff, nurses, support workers and students, as well as support the development of evidence-based practice.
• Work collaboratively across disciplines, and partners to enhance the impact and sustainability of the health and wellbeing

• See attached document for further details

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Qualifications

Essential

• RGN qualification
• Current NMC registration

Desirable

• Prescribing qualification

Experience

• Minimum of 12 months practice experience at Band 6
• Professional development
• Audit

Please kindly refer to the entire job description and person specification by clicking on the JD/PS attachment in the advert.