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Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

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Contact
- Address
- Trust Offices
- St Thomas' Street
- London
- SE1 9RT
- Contact Number
- 020 7188 7188
Sexual health Nurse Practitioner - Homeless & HIU service
Closed for applications on: 7-Mar-2024 00:04
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 7-Mar-2024 00:04
Key details
Location
- Site
- Gracefield Gardens HC
- Address
- 2-8 Gracefield Gardens
- Town
- Streatham
- Postcode
- SW16 2ST
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (Funding 12 months from new starter start date)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday)
Salary
- Salary
- £51,488 - £57,802 p.a inc HCA
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (Band 7)
Specialty
- Main area
- Inclusion Health/Homeless
- Interview date
- 18/03/2024
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.
Job overview
The Homeless 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. You will work 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 and we offer hybrid working and flexible working opportunities.
We are currently recruiting to a Band 7 Nurse practitioner sexual health trained (Adult) post 12 months fixed term contract or secondment. The post holder will primarily provide a sexual health care and lead a sexual heath outreach project within the Homeless service
Advert closing: 6th March 2024 at Midnight
Interview date: 18th March 2024
Advert
Leading the sexual health project- attending meetings and holding a case load of clients.
Running sexual health in-reach clinics at hostels for the homeless
Sexual health treatment - administration of PGD medications
Referral into main stream services
Safe guarding referrals - high risk client group.
Vaccine administration
Advocating for individuals
Liaising with accommodation providers, Local authority and stakeholders.
Participating in the running and development of the inclusion service service.
Leading on key roles within the homeless team and participating, as a senior member of the team in the leadership and development of the whole team.
Supporting the service leads in up holding the 7 pillars of governance
Leadership/management
Working for our organisation
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.
We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and – as part of King’s Health Partners – we are one of England’s eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research’s biomedical research centres, established with King’s College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Duties and Responsibilities
The Band 7 nurse will work closely with the other band 7's to offer leadership and support to the whole team.
To work autonomously, managing a caseload of patients within the specialty whilst working as part of the multidisciplinary team, delivering individualised and personalised direct patient care.
Be responsible for assessing and recognising emergencies in the specialty.
To interpret information and take appropriate action and to lead others to do the same.
Act as an advocate for patients within the department, to ensure a patient orientated approach to the delivery of care and to meet standards within the NHS Plan and other relevant guidelines.
Ensure that patients’ receive high quality clinical care and a good patient experience, having regard for their customs, religious beliefs and doctrines.
Recognise and avoid situations that may be detrimental to the health and wellbeing of the individuals.
Direct, support, encourage and advise clinical teams, by the provision of specialist knowledge and advice in the care of patients within the area.
Participate in the promotion of patient centred care, and establish and maintain a supportive relationship with the patient and their family during the period of assessment, treatment and after care.
Support and enable patients and carers to make informed decisions relating to their treatment and management.
Promote high quality clinical care, and assist in the development of the specialist service, through the use of evidence based practice and clinical standards.
Please see attached job description for full details.
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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Applicant requirements
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- BSc/1st degree/equivalent qualifications or experiance
- Evidence of comprehensive professional development in sexual health and contraception. This will include a sexual health course and a recognised contraception qualification such as the DFSRH
Desirable criteria
- Have or working towards a Masters degree
- Nurse practitioner qualification
- Evidence of recent updating in Health inclusion - providing service to marginalised groups.
Professional registration
Essential criteria
- RGN/RN - adult nurse (current registration)
Desirable criteria
- Completed or working towards Registered Nurse Prescriber
Skills/Knowledge
Essential criteria
- • Ability to work as an autonomous practitioner being responsible and accountable for choices made
- • Computer literate. Internet, email, Excel spreadsheet, Word, patient systems
- • Able to independently run nurse-led clinic for clients, and manage client care as appropriate
- • Able to work in partnership with and negotiate with a wide variety of partnership agencies, and other NHS providers
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience of running a project with direct relevance to this clinical area
- Demonstrated experience of managing clinical services in this clinical area
experiance
Essential criteria
- • Ability to deal with complaints sensitively avoiding escalation where possible
- • Able to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team
- • Line management skills and service development
Desirable criteria
- • Previous experience of running audits with direct relevance to this clinical area
Trust Values and Behaviour
Essential criteria
- Demonstrate Trust Values and Behaviour
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Serina Aboim
- Job title
- Clinical Lead Homeless & HIU service
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07775 220181
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