Peripatetic Nurse (Senior Clinical Nurse Specialist)

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust; London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust seeks a Peripatetic Nurse (Senior Clinical Nurse Specialist) to improve health outcomes for vulnerable populations. This role involves conducting health assessments, promoting service access, and addressing health inequalities, particularly for those facing issues related to substance misuse.

Qualifications

• Experience in Mental or general Health is essential.
• Experienced in supervising junior staff and health assessments.
• Able to communicate effectively within a multidisciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Conduct health and wellbeing assessments for hostel residents.
• Provide health promotion information to clients.
• Deliver targeted health clinics within the community.

Skills

Clinical Assessment

Health Promotion

Interpersonal Skills

Leadership

Education

RMN or RGN qualification

Diploma in Drugs and Alcohol Studies

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy training

Job description

Peripatetic Nurse (Senior Clinical Nurse Specialist)

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Job Overview

The purpose of this role will be imperative in improving integrated pathways to prevent fragmented services that are efficient and effective. The role is specific to support those to improve health outcomes especially for those who continually consume alcohol where traditional structured treatment will not be appropriate. The role will require a peripatetic nurse led general health clinics within hostels, supported through general practice. The collective aim of the service is to help those with a range of health needs including drug and alcohol to access the appropriate treatment, and to address the physical and mental health of hostel residents. The service will provide essential health promotion to increase the number of residents engaging with services to address their health and wellbeing. Furthermore the aim of the service will be to reduce alcohol related hospital admissions, health inequalities and improve pathways with community and hospital services. The service should increase access to preventative and non-emergency health care; this will include health promotion, health checks and accessing mainstream services.

Job Overview

The purpose of this role will be imperative in improving integrated pathways to prevent fragmented services that are efficient and effective. The role is specific to support those to improve health outcomes especially for those who continually consume alcohol where traditional structured treatment will not be appropriate. The role will require a peripatetic nurse led general health clinics within hostels, supported through general practice. The collective aim of the service is to help those with a range of health needs including drug and alcohol to access the appropriate treatment, and to address the physical and mental health of hostel residents. The service will provide essential health promotion to increase the number of residents engaging with services to address their health and wellbeing. Furthermore the aim of the service will be to reduce alcohol related hospital admissions, health inequalities and improve pathways with community and hospital services. The service should increase access to preventative and non-emergency health care; this will include health promotion, health checks and accessing mainstream services.

Main duties of the job

The team provide health and wellbeing assessments (H&WB) including a range of interventions to address health and well-being needs plus referral and facilitation into primary care and specialist services. The service also aims to provide training to hostel staff as well as offering client’s health promotion and general health screening.

The Peripatetic Nurses target drop-in/day centres/churches within the borough, providing a much-needed community and health screening service to the homeless, deprived and vulnerable people.

A large part of the health assessment delivered by the Peripatetic Nurse focusses on understanding the clients’ lifestyle and practices. Therefore, providing health promotion information and advice represents a considerable part of the work undertaken. The Peripatetic Nurse works within a motivational framework to assist clients in thinking about adopting healthier behaviours.

The nurse visits local hostels and does health and wellbeing nursing assessments with informed written consent from the client. The health and wellbeing assessments are given to the client/GP etc. highlighting concerns of health and appropriate referrals/ appointments made on the client’s behalf.

Working for our organisation

CNWL Addictions is a well-established NHS provider offering a wide range of

high-quality addictions treatment interventions to the diverse and multicultural population across Brent, Ealing, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Milton Keynes and HMP Woodhill. In addition, we have the Club Drug Clinic coving Kensington and Chelsea/Westminster as well as our National Problem Gambling Service and Gaming Clinic. CNWL also have a nurse-led homeless peripatetic nurse team as well as specialist nurses working across a number of General Hospital sites The service is committed to a harm minimisation philosophy and to partnership working. Our main partners are primary care services, social and the third sectors. Treatments are provided across all our clinical centres. A Care Quality Management framework is well established and the service prides itself in its continuous development and as a learning organisation.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

The aim is to provide a service specific to the homeless, rough sleepers and hostel residents that reside in the Milton Keynes. The role will include a range of activities addressing the resident’s health and well-being, the development of pathways into specialist services, training of hostel staff to managed residents out of hours, and improve the overall health inequalities via;

• Health promotion
• General Health screening
• Engagement in Primary Care services and facilitate access to organised health care
• The purpose pathways to prevent fragmented services that are efficient and effective.
• The role is specific to support those to improve health outcomes especially for those who continually consume alcohol where traditional structured treatment will not be appropriate.
• The role will require a peripatetic nurse led general health clinics within hostels, supported through general practice.
• The collective aim of the service is to help those with a range of health needs including drug and alcohol to access the appropriate treatment, and to address the physical and mental health of hostel residents.
• The service will provide essential health promotion to increase the number of residents engaging with services to address their health and wellbeing.
• Furthermore the aim of the service will be to reduce alcohol related hospital admissions, health inequalities and improve pathways with community and hospital services.
• The service should increase access to preventative and non-emergency health care; this will include health promotion, health checks and accessing mainstream services.
• To ensure that the delivery of the care and management of this client group is done in compliance with HCC Quality Standards.
  
  

Person specification

Education

Essential criteria

• RMN or RGN
• Evidence of continuing personal development and post-registration training in the nursing care, assessment and treatment substance misuse clients.
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Diploma in Drugs and Alcohol Studies or equivalent qualification
• Training in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
• Completed the Motivational Interviewing Training Module
• Completed the ‘Non Medical Prescriber’ course
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience in Mental or general Health
• Experience in supervising junior staff
• Experienced in the supply and administration of Hepatitis vaccines
• Experienced and competent in the supply and administration of CNWL Trust Hepatitis Patient Group Directions
• Extensive clinical experience
• Case management experience
• Experience in undertaking Risk Assessments and Risk Management
• Teaching and Assessing qualification ENB 998 / SLICE or equivalent eg: mentorship
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Community Nursing Experience
• Experience of working in and delivering services to injecting drug users.
• Experience of teaching others and willingness to undertake Teaching and Assessing qualification within six months of commencing post.
  
  

Skills and knowledge

Essential criteria

• Sound clinical knowledge and understanding of current NHS policies and national drug issues/policies.
• Good verbal, written and presentation skills.
• Good interpersonal skills in order to communicate and negotiate effectively, both inside and outside the Trust
• Ability to work independently and to prioritise effectively
• Ability to assess and treat people with dual diagnosis
• Evidence of effective leadership and organisational skills.
• Evidence of the ability to work in a changing and stressful situation.
• Evidence of ability to teach/disseminate knowledge and skills
• Ability to treat service users with respect and dignity at all times, adopting a culturally sensitive approach, which considers the needs of the whole person
• Able to build constructive relationships with warmth and empathy, using good communication skills
• IT literate: competent using Microsoft Word and able to report clinical activity data on patient information systems.
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Experience of working with stimulant users and people with alcohol problems.
• Experience of group facilitation
• Experience of managing a caseload within the community
• Awareness/knowledge of research skills
• Awareness of counselling models
• Motivational Interviewing skills / Relapse Management skills

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Other

• Industries

  Hospitals and Health Care

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