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Join a leading healthcare team in Leeds focused on providing holistic care to marginalized communities. As a key practitioner, you will lead a dedicated team, ensuring effective healthcare delivery and innovative service development for vulnerable populations.
We're looking for an experienced practitioner with a strong sense of socialjustice to join our Homeless Health Inclusion Team (HHIT). We deliver transformational models of holistichealthcare to people experiencing homelessness, the Gypsy and Travellercommunity, and other inclusion groups in Leeds experiencing homelessness viaoutreach and in-reach programmes in partnership with other services. We advocate for our patients and plan safe discharge, providing out of hospital care and lead thehealth care for patients in Transitional Housing Units and those who have beenplaced in a health commissioned bed. We alsoprovide outreach to the Gypsy and Traveller community, working with Leeds Gypsyand Traveller Exchange and facilitating health equity or their members. The HHIT team have links with the streetteams, who provide street outreach, signposting and building relationships withthose who are rough sleeping and those new to Leeds. The team works with those identified assuffering from homelessness and those identified as sofa surfing. People whoare vulnerably housed, victims of trafficking, exploitation, vulnerable womenfleeing domestic violence, refugees, those in the asylum process; failed asylumseekers and those with no recourse to public funding.
You will manage a team of healthcareprofessionals and care navigators and hold a caseload, working with patients ontheir health goals to ensure health needs are met and a reduction in emergencyhospital admissions.
Duties:
The team is based at Burmantofts Health Centre but outreach and in-reach to various locations across the city. The service runs Monday to Friday 08:30 16:30.
You could be a Community Nurse, Health Visitor, Occupational Therapist or Mental Health Nurse. You will have had experience in working with people in inclusion health groups and working in challenging and complex environments. You're flexible and able to work under pressure and in a challenging and fast-paced environment. As you'll be working with people who have experienced complex trauma highly effective communication skills are a must. You are empowered by working independently but able to maintain a sense of team and your professional identity.
For further information please contact Liz Keat on 07904 622489 or Sue Wilson on 07541 779849
Working for Leeds community HealthcareNHS Trust
Who are we?
Leeds Community Healthcare provides arange of community-based health services across the whole city. We treat peoplein their homes, local health centres and community hospitals, and work inpartnership with other local Trusts, charities and Leeds City Council.
We have a strong culture based ondeeply-held values, and our focus at all times is on delivering high qualitycare to the people of Leeds. In our most recent CQC evaluation, we were rated"Good", with our Adult Services rated "Outstanding" forcaring.
Perks of the job
Our benefits range from generousannual leave to access to NHS discount sites. You can find the full list ofattractive benefits and rewards at www.leedscommunityhealthcare.nhs.ukclick on the Join Our Team Tab.
Right to Work
This role is based in the UK.Employment is conditional on confirmation of the right to work in the UK -either as a UK or Irish citizen, under the EU settlement scheme or havingsecured any other relevant work visa. If you do not have the right to work inthe UK and the role does not meet eligibility for sponsorship, please considercarefully whether you meet the eligibility to apply.
14 May 2025
Agenda for change
Band 7
£46,148 to £52,809 a year
Fixed term
12 months
Full-time
VP5A01A3AA
Burmantofts Health Centre
Cromwell Mount
Leeds
LS9 7TA
Please refer to the job description and person specification attached in the supporting documents section.
Please refer to the job description and person specification attached in the supporting documents section.
We're looking for an experienced practitioner with a strong sense of socialjustice to join our Homeless Health Inclusion Team (HHIT). We deliver transformational models of holistichealthcare to people experiencing homelessness, the Gypsy and Travellercommunity, and other inclusion groups in Leeds experiencing homelessness viaoutreach and in-reach programmes in partnership with other services. We advocate for our patients and plan safe discharge, providing out of hospital care and lead thehealth care for patients in Transitional Housing Units and those who have beenplaced in a health commissioned bed. We alsoprovide outreach to the Gypsy and Traveller community, working with Leeds Gypsyand Traveller Exchange and facilitating health equity or their members. The HHIT team have links with the streetteams, who provide street outreach, signposting and building relationships withthose who are rough sleeping and those new to Leeds. The team works with those identified assuffering from homelessness and those identified as sofa surfing. People whoare vulnerably housed, victims of trafficking, exploitation, vulnerable womenfleeing domestic violence, refugees, those in the asylum process; failed asylumseekers and those with no recourse to public funding.
You will manage a team of healthcareprofessionals and care navigators and hold a caseload, working with patients ontheir health goals to ensure health needs are met and a reduction in emergencyhospital admissions.
Duties:
The team is based at Burmantofts Health Centre but outreach and in-reach to various locations across the city. The service runs Monday to Friday 08:30 16:30.
You could be a Community Nurse, Health Visitor, Occupational Therapist or Mental Health Nurse. You will have had experience in working with people in inclusion health groups and working in challenging and complex environments. You're flexible and able to work under pressure and in a challenging and fast-paced environment. As you'll be working with people who have experienced complex trauma highly effective communication skills are a must. You are empowered by working independently but able to maintain a sense of team and your professional identity.
For further information please contact Liz Keat on 07904 622489 or Sue Wilson on 07541 779849
Working for Leeds community HealthcareNHS Trust
Who are we?
Leeds Community Healthcare provides arange of community-based health services across the whole city. We treat peoplein their homes, local health centres and community hospitals, and work inpartnership with other local Trusts, charities and Leeds City Council.
We have a strong culture based ondeeply-held values, and our focus at all times is on delivering high qualitycare to the people of Leeds. In our most recent CQC evaluation, we were rated"Good", with our Adult Services rated "Outstanding" forcaring.
Perks of the job
Our benefits range from generousannual leave to access to NHS discount sites. You can find the full list ofattractive benefits and rewards at www.leedscommunityhealthcare.nhs.ukclick on the Join Our Team Tab.
Right to Work
This role is based in the UK.Employment is conditional on confirmation of the right to work in the UK -either as a UK or Irish citizen, under the EU settlement scheme or havingsecured any other relevant work visa. If you do not have the right to work inthe UK and the role does not meet eligibility for sponsorship, please considercarefully whether you meet the eligibility to apply.
14 May 2025
Agenda for change
Band 7
£46,148 to £52,809 a year
Fixed term
12 months
Full-time
VP5A01A3AA
Burmantofts Health Centre
Cromwell Mount
Leeds
LS9 7TA
Please refer to the job description and person specification attached in the supporting documents section.
Job descriptionPlease refer to the job description and person specification attached in the supporting documents section.
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.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please seeNHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional informationThis 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.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please seeNHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust
Burmantofts Health Centre
Cromwell Mount
Leeds
LS9 7TA
https://www.leedscommunityhealthcare.nhs.uk/join-our-team1/ (Opens in a new tab)
Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust
Burmantofts Health Centre
Cromwell Mount
Leeds
LS9 7TA
https://www.leedscommunityhealthcare.nhs.uk/join-our-team1/ (Opens in a new tab)