Homeless Engagement Practitioner - Leicester, United Kingdom - Inclusion Healthcare CIC

Description

CLINICAL DUTIES Provide a holistic assessment including lifestyle advice/guidance/interventions on Health, diet, smoking, Substance Misuse, and exercise Provide Health interventions within the scope of your professional training, e.g.

Perform wound management and implement wound care in line with current evidence-based guidelines; Perform venepuncture according to local guidelines. Assessing problems presented opportunistically by patients, dealing with minor illnesses. Support Primary Care to provide appropriate Long Term Condition interventions and monitoring.

Able to document clear and concise Consultations notes according to your governing body guidelines e.g. NMC, HCPC Ensures awareness of statutory and local clinical protection procedures, including systems of referral. Ability to recognise signs and symptoms of child abuse/elderly abuse. Practice BLS and anaphylaxis.

Ability to obtain and document informed consent (either verbal or written).

Works in partnership with General Practitioners, Consultants, and Nursing and Social Care colleagues to manage patients with a range of acute, non-acute, and chronic mental health conditions.

Partake in Leicester City Council Outreach, seeking to find and support individuals identified as someone of concern.

There will be a necessity to provide street outreach services as part of this role which will involve providing services for patients in locations outside of the surgery environment.

Audits outcomes of care against standards and initiates changes as necessary.

PROMOTE HEALTH Proactively works with the community and other statutory and voluntary agencies empowering, enabling, encouraging, and supporting individuals, families, and groups to address issues that affect their health and social well-being.

Initiates and carries out programmes of health screening. MANAGERIAL Undertake lead role responsibility for designated clinical areas Contribute to the assessment of service needs.

Assist patients to identify their health needs. Contribute to any Practice development plans. Manage and organise individual patient consultations. Aware of identification and reporting procedures related to professional standards.

To attend staff meetings. Support the Practice clinical governance agenda. Identify changes to clinical practice that are required to implement evidence-based guidelines. Respond to patient notes and SystmOne internal queries Ordering of Health Promotion literature.

Ordering of vaccinations, medications, screening equipment, and dressing supplies to maintain stock levels Comply with CQC standards Maintain registration with relevant governing body eg NMC, HCPC Please see the attached job description and person specification for full details of this role