Nurse Practitioner BBV - Homeless and HIU service

The Homeless & HIU Service is an excellent award-winning service (MBE award, two-time Winner of Lammy Award, Regional Winner of Health and Social Care Award for Improving Health and Reducing Inequalities, Winner of GSTT Care Award, Winner of Ab Fab Award) and friendly team delivering services to those experiencing homelessness. The post holder will be predominantly working in non-NHS sites such as hostels, day centres and street nursing when required and will be expected to travel to the Gracefield Gardens office when needed. The Team also offer flexible working opportunities., + Primarily work as a Nurse Practitioner within the drug and alcohol services in Southwark, developing, providing, and evaluating a seamless, comprehensive blood borne virus (BBV) screening service
+ Demonstrate expert knowledge and skills in the area of blood borne viruses, homelessness, addictions, and client groups at risk
+ Supervise and manage Band 6 nurses on the team
+ Manage a caseload of patients within the specialty whilst working as part of the multidisciplinary team, delivering individualised and personalised direct patient care that is holistic and resourceful. This includes history taking, conducting physical examinations, and requesting agreed diagnostic procedures including taking blood/clinical investigations.
+ Provide specialist advice, education, and support to health care professionals and patients
+ Establish and maintain effective, supportive relationships with all key stakeholders across the Trust and in the community, including patients, carers, clinicians, and managers
+ Act as an advocate for patients within the department
+ Provide a leadership role model and demonstrate expert knowledge and high standards of clinical practice.
+ Manage own caseload and practice, identifying and maintaining supportive networks for self and other staff members.
+ Provide cover for the other Nurses as appropriate
+ Maintaining and updating the BBV testing protocols in collaboration with the specialist hospital teams, The Homeless & HIU service has many years of experience of working with marginalized and vulnerable cohorts. The approach is to complete a comprehensive health assessment, catch-up immunisations where needed, refer into main stream services if required and support individuals with managing their chronic conditions while in temporary accommodation. The nurses/HV/AHPs need to have assessment skills that mean they can confidently complete assessments but also respond to any immediate health needs such as acute infections. We have a set of PGDs that are available to treat minor ailments, administer vaccine and other medications. We are a supportive team with an aim that all team members have the necessary skills and support to be able to offer a safe, culturally competent health service to our client groups., + · Primarily work as a Nurse Practitioner within the drug and alcohol services in Southwark, developing, providing, and evaluating a seamless, comprehensive blood borne virus (BBV) screening service.
+ Run clinics both independently and jointly, and ensuring that patients receive the highest standard of clinical care. This clinical work might include direct patient care, health promotion work, or specialist clinics (e.g. vaccination).
+ Demonstrate specialist clinical leadership and management in the local areas of health inclusion and BBV screening, as requested by the Service Lead
+ Develop and review team initiatives and projects for the client group
+ Actively undertake clinical audits and contribute to the ongoing development of clinical practice, research and standards of care within the service, including development of policies, protocols and guidelines and contribute to service developments in collaboration with multidisciplinary colleagues
+ Ensure the safety and well-being of services users, always working in a manner that promotes dignity and human rights through the adoption of person-centred care principles
Closing Date: 3rd June 2024 (Midnight)
Interview Date: 13th June 2024
Guy's and St Thomas' celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study's at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.
Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.
As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.
Flexible working
We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual's personal circumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.
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We are currently recruiting to a Band 7 Nurse Practitioner (Adult) post primarily working to deliver the Blood Borne Virus screening service in Southwark. This is a senior post and will contribute to the leadership and development of our service with expert contributions relating to Blood Borne Viruses (testing, treating and aetiology of hepatitis and HIV. This post is to provide exceptional high-quality nursing care for those who are risk or homelessness or rough sleeping in Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark. The new team members will be supported by senior staff, who have many years of experience and knowledge. It is an exciting role that will ensure that vulnerable adults who are able to access the health and support they need. If you are interested in applying and would like to discuss the position further please contact our service.

Guy's and St Thomas' is among the UK's busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy's is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas' has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children's Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King's Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King's College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of 'good'. Our adult community services achieved a rating of 'outstanding'.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS., Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK's best known hospitals - Guy's, St Thomas', Evelina London Children's Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield - as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation. We are among the UK's busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.