Clinical Prescribing Paramedic/Nurse for Homeless Healthcare

Job summary

Southend Medical Practice are seeking an experienced prescribing paramedic or nurse to join our team. Reporting to a GP clinical lead, they will be a motivated individual who has a passion on tackling health inequalities, and particularly an interest in healthcare for the homeless population. This role is offered on a contract basis, covering maternity for 12 months. It is a part-time position for 22.5 hours per week, working over 3 days with the working pattern and hours negotiable.

Southend Integrated Healthcare for the Homeless (SIHH) provides a service specific to homeless individuals within Southend on Sea.

The purpose of this role will be imperative in improving integrated pathways to prevent fragmented services to become efficient and effective. The role is specifically to support those to improve health outcomes. 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, to provide clinical assessment and treatment in the community along with signposting clients to GP services, secondary care, drug and alcohol services.

Main duties of the job

• Provide a specialist primary care service and outreach clinics for local soup kitchen, homeless individuals and local homeless charities in Southend.
• Work as a member of the multidisciplinary team in the management and treatment provision. General health assessment, wound assessment and management, lifestyle assessment and physical health assessment.
• Promote health and wellbeing and improve health inequalities by completing a range of health checks including a review of systems to include, neurological, cardiovascular, respiratory, gastrointestinal, hepatic, renal, lymphatic, reproductive health and musculoskeletal.
• Assess general health and provide early intervention treatment, sign posting and referral to organised health services.
• Develop and maintain pathways into specialist services to ensure the health and well-being of residents is met, including back into primary care services, secondary care, mental health, drugs and alcohol and voluntary sector.
• Sign post service users to the appropriate health care settings to meet their needs.
• Single point of contact for Primary care services, local Hospitals and other organised health care services.
• Provide regular drop-in clinical sessions at various locations of homeless support organisations
• Actively promote female health screening.

About us

Southend Medical Centre is a 7300 patient practice with a friendly and supportive team that strives to provide an outstanding service to its patients. We are proud to be a multi-cultural surgery, we have been accredited with several awards including our Pride in practice LGBTQIA+ Gold award, our Veterans Friendly Practice award, our Dementia Awareness Practice award, our Trauma Informed surgery accreditation and were finalist in the Impact Awards Practice of the Year 2023. We hold patient care at the forefront of our minds and we fly the flag for the future of healthcare by being a training and research studies practice.