Job summary
We are delighted to offer an outstanding opportunity for a skilled practitioner with significant experience of working with people that are homeless or rough sleeping to lead the specialist Homeless Health team across Imperial College NHS Trust.
You will provide operational management support to the Homeless Health team and will work closely with the GP Clinical Lead in the evaluation and ongoing development of the service. In addition to the three years funding to continue the development of our inpatient service, additional money has been provided for one year to more effectively in-reach into Emergency Department. You will oversee the development of this service.
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.
A strong understanding of how self-neglect is part of homelessness, safeguarding and the complexities of undertaking mental capacity assessments in inclusion health groups is desirable.
Main duties of the job
- Provide overall day to day operational leadership and direction to the Homeless Health Hospital Team across the hospital.
- Take a lead on managing the public profile of the team, and ensuring that reports, publications, presentations are delivered at an agreed standard.
- 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.
- Develop excellent links and working relationships with the Integrated Discharge Hubs and clinical teams within the hospital maximising benefit to patients.
- 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.
- Assist in the development of Trust strategies to improve the quality of homeless patients' discharge.
- Motivate, develop, and always support other staff and students, taking part in reflection and appropriate learning from practice, in order to maintain and develop competence and performance.
About us
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.
Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.
Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview. .
Job description
Job responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.
For both overviews, please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.
For both overviews, please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.
Person Specification
Education/ Qualifications
Essential
- BSc/1st degree (health related) or equivalent qualification/training and experience
- Professional Registration in an appropriate health care discipline (e.g., Nursing, Occupational Therapy)
- Specialist training, experience, and short courses to master's level equivalent.
- Teaching and assessing or mentorship course.
- Completion of an appropriate management / leadership programme
Desirable
- To have or be currently working towards a master's degree
- Dual qualification
- Specialist qualification in a relevant area e.g., addictions
Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience of working with clients with complex needs and social excluded groups (e.g., homeless, refugees and people with addictions)
- Experience of managing homeless frequent attenders or delayed discharges
- Substantial management experience in leading clinical teams
- Extensive experience of managing a range of professional staff and working in multidisciplinary teams
- Substantial experience in working across organizational and sector boundaries.
- Extensive experience of working with and safeguarding vulnerable adults
- Teaching experience informal and formal
- Recruitment and retention experience
- Substantial experience of objective setting and performance management/ review
- Substantial experience of setting and monitoring quality standards
- Substantial experience of project management and delivering outcomes
- Substantial experience of undertaking audit and implementing action plans
- Experience of working with service users to ensure their views are heard and translated into service improvements.
- Experience of managing team clinical supervision structures
Desirable
- Experience of working with a variety of different clinical systems
- Experience of report writing
- Experience of setting up new teams
- Experience of leading a Homeless Health team or similar
- Experience of working in partnership with voluntary / statutory agencies
- Direct experience of working with Refugees / Asylum Seekers, including an understanding of background legal issues
- Experience of using a GP clinical system e.g., EMIS
- Substantial experience of working with service users
- Experience of delivering large group supervision
- Experience of undertaking and reporting on research
Skills/Knowledge/ Abilities
Essential
- Excellent clinical skills, and extensive knowledge relevant to the client group
- Excellent organisational, time management and project management skills
- Able to interpret complex information (e.g., immigration policies) that affect the client groups.
- Able to gather and analyze complex data.
- Skills in work processing, spreadsheets, emails, using the internet, clinical system and databases: ability to make presentations.
- Excellent IT skills
- Excellent communication and leadership skills, to provide clear direction and lead team to success.
- Able to lead a number of team's projects, planning and implementing service development across health and social care communities.
- Ability and knowledge to establish a clear and systematic approach to risk management and clinical governance.
- Skilled to supervise, manage and monitor staff and students, and effectively manage poor performance if necessary.
- Excellent understanding of Clinical Governance
- Up to date knowledge of recent NHS developments
- Understanding of homelessness strategies - international, national, and local
- Understanding of housing strategies and law - international, national, and local
- Understanding of asylum strategies - international, national, and local
- Excellent organization skills and ability to meet deadlines.
Person Specification
Education/ Qualifications
Essential
- BSc/1st degree (health related) or equivalent qualification/training and experience
- Professional Registration in an appropriate health care discipline (e.g., Nursing, Occupational Therapy)
- Specialist training, experience, and short courses to master's level equivalent.
- Teaching and assessing or mentorship course.
- Completion of an appropriate management / leadership programme
Desirable
- To have or be currently working towards a master's degree
- Dual qualification
- Specialist qualification in a relevant area e.g., addictions
Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience of working with clients with complex needs and social excluded groups (e.g., homeless, refugees and people with addictions)
- Experience of managing homeless frequent attenders or delayed discharges
- Substantial management experience in leading clinical teams
- Extensive experience of managing a range of professional staff and working in multidisciplinary teams
- Substantial experience in working across organizational and sector boundaries.
- Extensive experience of working with and safeguarding vulnerable adults
- Teaching experience informal and formal
- Recruitment and retention experience
- Substantial experience of objective setting and performance management/ review
- Substantial experience of setting and monitoring quality standards
- Substantial experience of project management and delivering outcomes
- Substantial experience of undertaking audit and implementing action plans
- Experience of working with service users to ensure their views are heard and translated into service improvements.
- Experience of managing team clinical supervision structures
Desirable
- Experience of working with a variety of different clinical systems
- Experience of report writing
- Experience of setting up new teams
- Experience of leading a Homeless Health team or similar
- Experience of working in partnership with voluntary / statutory agencies
- Direct experience of working with Refugees / Asylum Seekers, including an understanding of background legal issues
- Experience of using a GP clinical system e.g., EMIS
- Substantial experience of working with service users
- Experience of delivering large group supervision
- Experience of undertaking and reporting on research
Skills/Knowledge/ Abilities
Essential
- Excellent clinical skills, and extensive knowledge relevant to the client group
- Excellent organisational, time management and project management skills
- Able to interpret complex information (e.g., immigration policies) that affect the client groups.
- Able to gather and analyze complex data.
- Skills in work processing, spreadsheets, emails, using the internet, clinical system and databases: ability to make presentations.
- Excellent IT skills
- Excellent communication and leadership skills, to provide clear direction and lead team to success.
- Able to lead a number of team's projects, planning and implementing service development across health and social care communities.
- Ability and knowledge to establish a clear and systematic approach to risk management and clinical governance.
- Skilled to supervise, manage and monitor staff and students, and effectively manage poor performance if necessary.
- Excellent understanding of Clinical Governance
- Up to date knowledge of recent NHS developments
- Understanding of homelessness strategies - international, national, and local
- Understanding of housing strategies and law - international, national, and local
- Understanding of asylum strategies - international, national, and local
- Excellent organization skills and ability to meet deadlines.
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).
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).
