Specialist Nurse - Bradford, United Kingdom - Bevan Community Benefit Society

Description

Job summary

The homeless hospital discharge service provides enhanced inpatient care, and ensures safe, appropriate and sustainable hospital discharges that meet the needs of patients currently experiencing homelessness.

The service works with a variety of hospital, statutory and voluntary Partners. The teams aims and objectives are to bring a wider influence to hospital, housing and social care systems to proactively identify and better respond to the needs of currently homeless and otherwise disenfranchised people.

The Specialist Nurse works alongside the lead clinician for the service and a support worker, contributing clinical knowledge and expertise.

As a key part of a multi-disciplinary intervention, the post holder assists patients identified within the organisation as experiencing homelessness to improve and maintain their health, by identifying and managing unmet health, housing and social care needs.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will:

Be responsible for the identification of homeless/vulnerable patientswho attend A&E and/or are admitted as an inpatient.

Be expected to carry out a holisticassessment in order to address physical health, mental health and social needs,taking into consideration the lifestyle, gender and cultural background andensure involvement with the patient, family, carers and significant others.

Assess condition of patients including suitability for discharge.

Work as part of the multidisciplinaryteam fostering good interdepartmental relationships and helping to achieve highmorale for patients and staff and continuous quality improvement.

Promote health education involves patients and carers appropriately indecision making.

Be involved in setting up support/carepackages based on their assessment including support with the patients housing,physical health needs, alcohol and drug dependencies, mental health issues andany other social care needs that the patient would benefit from been supportedwith.

Provide direct support to the nursing team on the wards/departments toprovide a safe and timely discharge.

Work closely with other members of the Homeless Discharge Team.

Attend and contribute to multi-disciplinary meetings.

Contribute to data collection and analysis.

Be involved in community based work including involvement with theBRICSS intermediate care facility and street outreach as required.

About us

Bevan Community Benefit Society provide sensitive and responsive Primary Care services for people who are homeless or living in temporary unstable accommodation, those who have come to Leeds and Bradford as asylum seekers and refugees, and other groups who find it difficult to access health care.

"Health, Hope and Humanity"

VISION

Health equality and wellbeing for all

MISSION

Operating as an exemplar social enterprise, we will pioneer and provide inclusion health services that positively change the lives of people in need and enable local communities to thrive.

Job responsibilities

Job Title: Specialist Nurse - HomelessDischarge Service

Location: BradfordRoyal Infirmary

Job Purpose

Thehomeless hospital discharge service provides enhanced inpatient care, andensures safe, appropriate and sustainable hospital discharges that meet theneeds of patients currently experiencing homelessness.

The service works with a variety of hospital, statutory and voluntary Partners.The teams aims and objectives are to bring a wider influence to hospital,housing and social care systems to proactively identify and better respond tothe needs of currently homeless and otherwise disenfranchised people.

The Specialist Nurse works alongside the lead clinicianfor the service and a support worker, contributing clinical knowledge andexpertise.

As a key part of a multi-disciplinary intervention,the post holder assists patients identified within the organisation asexperiencing homelessness to improve and maintain their health, by identifyingand managing unmet health, housing and social care needs.

Key Roles and Responsibilities

Clinical Responsibilities

The post holder will:

Be responsible for the identification of homeless/vulnerable patientswho attend A&E and/or are admitted as an inpatient.

Be expected to carry out a holistic assessment in order to addressphysical health, mental health and social needs, taking into consideration thelifestyle, gender and cultural background and ensure involvement with the patient,family, carers and significant others.

Assess condition of patients including suitability for discharge.

Work as part of the multidisciplinary team fostering goodinterdepartmental relationships and helping to achieve high morale for patientsand staff and continuous quality improvement.

Promote health education involves patients and carers appropriately indecision making.

Be involved in setting up support/care packages based on theirassessment including support with the patients housing, physical health needs,alcohol and drug dependencies, mental health issues and any other social careneeds that the patient would benefit from been supported with.

Provide direct support to the nursing team on the wards/departments toprovide a safe and timely discharge.

Work closely with other members of the Homeless Discharge Team.

Attend and contribute to multi-disciplinary meetings.

Contribute to data collection and analysis.

Be involved in community based work including involvement with theBRICSS intermediate care facility and street outreach as required.

Leadership Responsibilities

The post holder will:

Participate in service development, identify and promoting the need forchange.

Participate in teaching, mentoring and assessing of students, traineesand other professional staff.

Partnership Responsibilities:

To representthe service in a variety of contexts, deputising for the Lead Clinician asappropriate.

To workcollaboratively with hospital, statutory and voluntary/third sector partners atall times in order to improve patient pathways.

To developrelationships with partnership organisations as required.

Tosupport and manage partnership staff within the team as necessary.

Professional Responsibilities:

To ensure mandatory training is up to date and proactively identify andaddress own learning needs relating to the role.

To ensuring nursing registration is up to date, revalidation requirementsare met and maintain professional standards.

Manage safeguardingconcerns appropriate to your role and level of training.

Qualifications

Essential

Desirable

Experience

Essential

Desirable

Skills

Essential

Desirable

Values

Essential