Job summary
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.
About us
CNWL Addictions is a well-established NHS provider offering a wide range ofhigh-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.
Job description
Job 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 residents 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.
Job description
Job 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 residents 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
- RMN or RGN
- Evidence of continuing personal development and post-registration training in the nursing care, assessment and treatment substance misuse clients.
Desirable
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
Person Specification
Education
Essential
- RMN or RGN
- Evidence of continuing personal development and post-registration training in the nursing care, assessment and treatment substance misuse clients.
Desirable
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
