Homeless Health Housing Coordinator - London, United Kingdom - Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Description
Are you a motivated, dynamic, and enthusiastic housing officer with significant experience of working with people that are homeless or rough sleeping? Would you like to work within an acute hospital supporting patients that are homeless or at risk of homelessness.
If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you to be involved in the process of re-establishing our specialist Homeless Health team.
The Homeless Health team is multi-disciplinary and operates a reactive and fast
- moving service. It aims to provide enhanced inpatient care and ensure safe, appropriate, and sustainable hospital discharges that meet the needs of individual homeless patients. Through this approach, the team also aims to reduce delayed and premature discharges, and reduce unscheduled admissions, repeat admissions and A&E attendances.
The Homeless Health team is multi-disciplinary and operates a reactive and fast
- moving service. It aims to provide enhanced inpatient care and ensure safe, appropriate, and sustainable hospital discharges that meet the needs of individual homeless patients. Through this approach, the team also aims to reduce delayed and premature discharges, and reduce unscheduled admissions, repeat admissions and A&E attendances.
As a key part of a multi-disciplinary service, the role aims to help patients to improve and maintain their health, by linking them with suitable housing, support, and other relevant services on discharge, and supporting them to access accommodation, benefits, primary health care and to attend follow up health and other appointments following discharge.
The post holder will work in partnership with members of their own multi-disciplinary as well as other hospital teams and outside agencies to achieve successful discharges.
The post holder will work both on various wards, in Accident and Emergency (A&E) and may need to outreach into the community to support patients post discharge for follow ups.
The post holder will be expected to work Monday to Friday
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.
Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme.
Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.
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