Homeless Health Service Lead

A year fixed opportunity to lead the Homeless Health Team at London Northwest Healthcare trust. You will provide clinical expertise and knowledge and will provide daily leadership and operationally manage the team. The Homeless Health Team works in close partnership with the wards to identify people experiencing homelessness whilst they are in hospital, build therapeutic relationships with them, assist the ward multidisciplinary team to maximise the benefit of these admissions, and then support these vulnerable patients during and after discharge - ensuring that they are fully linked in to all the health care and support services they need when the team finally discharges them.Main duties of the job To provide overall day to day operational leadership and direction to the Homeless Health Hospital Team across the hospital. To facilitate and maintain active positive links with all key partnership agencies (e.g., homeless health services, housing, social care services, and the voluntary sector) always, developing projects and protocols to improve working relationships and service delivery as necessary. To develop excellent links and working relationships with the Integrated Discharge Hubs and clinical teams within the hospital maximising benefit to patients. To be an expert in relation to the physical health, mental health and addiction related conditions that commonly effect homeless people and deliver advice across the hospital as necessary. To have expert knowledge in the physical health, mental health and addiction related conditions that commonly effect homeless people and apply this to the care of own clients. To act as a resource for other staff within the Trust, providing direct support for other professionals around complex discharges as necessary. In line with this to have expert knowledge on the possible discharge solutions available for homeless people.

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond. Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people. We run major acute services at:

• Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country's top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
• St Mark's Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
• Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
• Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.
We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.