Homeless Health Outreach Nurse: RGN

Thank you for your interest in the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT). This is an exciting time to join us and be part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people. We will achieve this through the North London Way, as we:

• Collaborate at every level by living our values to create the right conditions for us all to work together.
• Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care.
• Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes.
• Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high-quality care across all our services.
• Ensure that research, quality improvement, and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services.
• Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do.

We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer. We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers and more. The North London Way to deliver: Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.

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.

Why choose to join the North London NHS Foundation Trust? We believe that by working together, our Trust can achieve more for the residents of North Central London and our patients than we can by working apart. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.

Qualifications:

• Current NMC registration.
• Minimum of 12 months practice experience at Band 6.

Person specification:

• Relevant post registration experience, for minimum 12 months.
• Registered Nurse- RGN.
• Evidence of ongoing professional development.
• Post graduate qualification in health promotion.

Experience:

• Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team with service users with complex care plans.
• Experience of working with carers, families and service users in ward based/community settings.
• Experience in delivery within Homeless health/ sexual health clinics, A&E, service.
• Experience of providing clinical supervision.
• Extensive experience working within secure / forensic care.
• A minimum of 12 months experience in Band 6 nursing role in acute or general physical health settings.
• Experience working within MH/Nurse prescriber.

Knowledge & Skills:

• Clinical skills.
• Excellent communication skills and extensive experience of delivery therapeutic groups/sessions.
• Ability to work autonomously and meet clinical and managerial deadlines.

Personal Attributes:

• Flexible and adaptable.
• Ability to motivate and engage service users and colleagues.

Other Skills and Abilities:

• Knowledge of change management and how to apply.
• Demonstrated capability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decision making.
• Experience in clinical audit / effectiveness / service evaluation.
• Clinical and managerial leadership skills.

References will be required to cover your last 3 years of employment/training. One has to be from your current or most recent employer and the others from your previous employer. The references should be from persons with management responsibility or HR.

Vacancies that are advertised as Fixed Term Contracts will also be available as secondment opportunities for substantive internal staff. Please be aware that your documents e.g. Passport/NI Card, will be electronically scanned using Home Office accredited Verification System.

Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts, we will close vacancies before the stated closing date once the first 50 applications are received. Therefore, please apply as soon as possible.

All non-medical posts with the Trust are subject to a probationary period of six months, during which time you will be required to demonstrate to the Trust’s satisfaction, your suitability for the position in which you will be employed.

Should you not hear from us within three working weeks of the closing date for this post, then regretfully in this instance, you have not been shortlisted.

By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at improving efficiencies within the NHS both to make cost savings for NHS organisations but also to save you time when your employment transfers.