Outreach Nurse

Devonshire Green Medical Centre in partnership with Sheffield City Council and Primary Care Sheffield are looking to recruit a Street Outreach Nurse/Health Care Professional for a fixed term of twelve months.

This is a full-time position with flexibility around working hours and is an excellent secondment opportunity.

Salary is Band 6, point dependent on experience.

The role is primarily street outreach based, with office space at Framework Rough Sleeping Outreach Service and Devonshire Green Medical Centre. The Street Outreach Nurse will work across Sheffield to provide a high-quality comprehensive specialist nurse service for rough sleepers who have difficulty accessing primary care services. They aim to assist these clients to access mainstream health services. The post holder will provide the services to clients directly at their sleep site, demonstrating expert engagement practices, along with rapid and flexible skills for delivering the care.

Main duties of the job

1. Assistance with GP registration
2. Health screening (i.e. blood born virus screening, sexual health screening, baseline routine blood tests)
3. Minor illness/injury management
4. Chronic disease management
5. Basic wound care
6. Case management of complex clients
7. Referral to other services as appropriate

About us

We provide excellent primary care and innovative services to a diverse city centre patient population of around 9,000 patients. Our practice is a supportive place to work, and we value our dedicated team which currently consists of four GP Partners, two Salaried GPs, a Physicians Associate, Clinical Pharmacist, Physio, Practice Nurses, Health Care Assistant plus our management and admin team. We are active members of our Primary Care network. We work with people experiencing homelessness and there are opportunities to develop skills working to tackle health inequalities.

Job responsibilities

General Information

JOB TITLE: Homeless Street Outreach Nurse/Healthcare Professional

SALARY: Depending on experience.

RESPONSIBLE TO: Devonshire Green Medical Centre

LOCATION: Primarily street outreach based, with office space at Framework Rough Sleeping Outreach Service and Devonshire Green Medical Centre

Job Context:

We are looking to recruit a Street Outreach Nurse for a fixed term of one year. The Street Outreach Nurse will work across Sheffield to provide a high quality comprehensive specialist nurse service for rough sleepers who have difficulty accessing primary care services. They aim to assist these clients to access mainstream health services. The post holder will provide the services to clients directly at their sleep site, demonstrating expert engagement practices, along with rapid and flexible skills for delivering the care.

Key services provided are:

1. Assistance with GP registration
2. Health screening (i.e. blood born virus screening, sexual health screening, baseline routine blood tests)
3. Comprehensive health assessment
4. Chronic disease management
5. Basic wound care
6. Case management of complex clients
7. Referral to other services as appropriate

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse RGN (Desirable - Evidence of NMC registration)
• Post qualifying experience of working in A&E, minor illness/injury or practical nursing role (Essential - Application/interview)
• Advanced Clinical Skills Qualification (Essential - Application/interview)
• Physical Assessment and Clinical Reasoning (PACR/APACS) qualification (Desirable - Application/interview)
• Experience of working with clients with mental ill health (Desirable - Application/interview)
• Experience of working with clients with a forensic history (Desirable - Application/interview)
• Evidence of post qualifying study in the area of substance misuse treatment (Desirable - Application/interview)
• Full current driving licence (Essential - Application)

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.

Depending on experience Band 6. Point dependent on experience.