Homeless Health Outreach Nurse: RGN

North London NHS Foundation Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 34,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization in Greater London is seeking qualified RGN practitioners to deliver high-quality care to patients facing mental and physical health challenges, manage caseloads independently, and work collaboratively across disciplines. The role requires current NMC registration and at least 12 months of practice experience. Benefits include NHS discounts and a supportive work environment.

Benefits

NHS Discounts

Generous annual leave allowance

NHS pension scheme

Supportive environment and internal support networks

Qualifications

• RGN qualification is required.
• Current NMC registration is necessary.
• Minimum of 12 months practice experience at Band 6 is expected.

Responsibilities

• Provide high quality care to patients with both physical and mental health difficulties.
• Independently manage a caseload of patients with complex physical health needs.
• Support the delivery of physical healthcare training.
• Take charge and assist in the supervision of junior staff.
• Work collaboratively across disciplines to enhance health and wellbeing.

Job description

Overview

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. 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.

Our trust website is: https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk.

Services

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

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

Main Duties

1. Provide high quality care to patients with both physical and mental health difficulties.
2. Independently manage a caseload of patients who may have long‑term or complex multiple physical health needs.
3. Support the delivery of physical healthcare training in collaboration with the head of physical health team.
4. 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.
5. Work collaboratively across disciplines, and partners to enhance the impact and sustainability of the health and wellbeing.

Qualifications

• RGN qualification
• Current NMC registration

Desirable

• Prescribing qualification

Experience

• Minimum of 12 months practice experience at Band 6

Professional Development

• Professional development

Our Five‑Year Strategy

1. We will provide consistently high‑quality care closer to home.
2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all.
3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
4. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.

Why NLFT?

• Transforming and creating a positive environment for our service users, staff and visitors.
• We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
• We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
• NHS Discounts, generous annual leave allowance and NHS pension scheme.
• We have excellent internal staff network support groups.

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.