Practice Nurse with Health for Homeless

CORNWALL PARTNERSHIP NHS FOUNDATION TRUST; Truro; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional NHS health service in Truro is seeking a dedicated Practice Nurse to provide primary healthcare tailored to homeless individuals, including assessments and chronic disease management. The role involves engaging with vulnerable populations and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams. This full-time position offers opportunities for outreach work and professional development, with a commitment to reducing health inequalities in the community.

Benefits

NHS Pension Scheme

Cycle to work scheme

Free DBS checks where required

Career development opportunities

Discounts from retailers and hotels

Health and wellbeing initiatives

Qualifications

• Experience working with vulnerable populations.
• Ability to build trust with patients facing barriers to care.
• Flexibility in working hours.

Responsibilities

• Provide tailored primary care for homeless individuals.
• Conduct health assessments and vaccinations.
• Engage with multidisciplinary teams to ensure patient care continuity.

Skills

Primary care experience

Chronic disease management

Wound care

Sexual/reproductive health knowledge

Health education delivery

Patient engagement skills

Education

Nursing degree

Job description

We pride ourselves in striving to be an employer of choice.

Strategic Themes

• Great Care: Care based on what matters to people.
• Great Care: Care provided at home or close to home.
• Great Care: Improvement through learning, research and innovation.
• Great Care: Prevention and alternatives to hospital.
• Great Organisation: Buildings that support health and wellbeing.
• Great Organisation: Technology enabled care.
• Great Organisation: Care teams are supported by responsive corporate services.
• Great Organisation: Safe, efficient, effective and productive.
• Great People: A place people love to work and feel valued.
• Great People: Living our values with staff (all voices count).
• Great People: Attract, grow and develop talent.
• Great People: Leaders with compassion, who continuously learn and listen.
• Great Partner: Encourage and enable effective partnerships.
• Great Partner: Joined-up community services.
• Great Partner: Work with others to maximise workforce opportunities.
• Great Partner: Reduce our impact on the environment.

At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that's job share, part time or another flexible pattern.

The successful applicant will be an NHS employee and may therefore have contact with vulnerable service users. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been necessary to take significant steps to protect the health and safety of our staff, service users and those attending our sites.

Job Description

We work with other organisations which include St Petroc's and Coastline Homeless Service as well as other local and national statutory groups. Part of our role is to help people live more stable lives and gain access to suitable accommodation.

To provide primary care tailored to people experiencing homelessness, including health assessments, chronic disease management, vaccinations, wound care, and sexual/reproductive health services. Deliver health education, screening for infectious diseases, and support lifestyle and wellbeing advice. Engage patients flexibly, building trust with those who may face barriers to care, irregular attendance, or trauma histories. Work closely with multidisciplinary teams, outreach services, and social care to coordinate care, advocate for patients, and ensure continuity, aiming to reduce health inequalities and improve overall health outcomes.

Over the last two years we have expanded our service from our three clinic sites to include outreach clinics countywide and we are seeking a Practice Nurse (Band 6) to join the team in an extended role, supporting & working collaboratively with the GPs. This is a full-time post, working agreed hours Monday to Friday, with the possibility of doing outreach work some of the time.

About Us

Cornwall Health for Homeless is a GP Practice & we aim to provide a range of healthcare services to people without homes in Cornwall. The service runs regular clinics in Truro, Camborne and Penzance that are open to people who are either street homeless or in temporary accommodation.

We are a people organisation and people matter to us. As part of the team, you'll help support the health and wellbeing of the people who live and visit this beautiful part of the UK.

Benefits

• Career conversations and individual development plans for succession planning and talent management
• Protected CPD time for registered staff
• Access to a dedicated central development fund supporting CPD for all staff
• Leadership and Management development programmes
• Coaching and mentoring opportunities
• A full clinical induction programme for operational skills
• Access to a care certificate programme for our band 1-4 clinical staff
• A bespoke and robust preceptorship programme to support newly qualified staff
• Individual professional development programmes
• Suite of health and wellbeing initiatives to support our colleagues physical and mental health
• Free access to individual HARP portfolios to support revalidation for nursing staff
• Free DBS checks where required
• Discounts available from retailers, UK hotels and main attractions
• NHS Pension Scheme
• Salary sacrifice car scheme
• Cycle to work scheme

Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust welcomes and values individuals with lived experience of mental or physical ill health joining our workforce. We aspire to have a culture that develops, promotes and supports lived experience roles - throughout the organisation.