Homeless Outreach Nurse
| Posting date: | 29 August 2025 |
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| Salary: | £35,180.00 to £43,125.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £35180.00 - £43125.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 19 September 2025 |
| Location: | Bradford, BD1 3LS |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | B0221-25-0024 |
Summary
KEY ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES 1. Manage Health Interventions The post holder will have the responsibility for the autonomous management of their own caseload of patients, providing a comprehensive, specialist nursing service for clients with often complex health and social needs. To liaise with and act upon referrals from patients and members of the team within the organisation. The post holder will have responsibility for health specific clinical activity within outreach services which will include the monitoring of standards of care and service, staff support, continuous professional development, and supporting practice education. The post holder will provide/coordinate crisis intervention to patients. You will work in partnership with General Practitioners, Consultants, Nursing and Social Care colleagues to manage patients with a range of acute, non-acute and chronic mental health conditions. Your role will include referring patients as appropriate to other members of the multidisciplinary team, secondary care and to other statutory and voluntary organisations. Providing and promoting evidence based care in line with appropriate clinical guidelines and works within clinical protocols, professional guidelines, codes of conduct and works within all relevant policies and procedural guidelines. You will challenge professional and organisational boundaries, identify areas for skill/knowledge development and apply these to practice to provide continuity and high quality patient health care for our patient group. Your role will include communicating highly sensitive condition-related information to patients, relatives and carers, as well as audit outcomes of care against standards and initiates changes as necessary. There will be a necessity to provide street outreach services as part of this role which will involve providing services for patients in locations outside of the surgery environment. 2. Promote Health Proactively work with the community and other statutory and voluntary agencies empowering, enabling, encouraging and supporting individuals, families and groups to address issues which affect their health and social well-being. Initiates and carry out programmes of health screening. 3. Communication Use developed communication, negotiation, conflict management skills which require empathy, reassurance and promote informed decision making to encourage good health outcomes for people who can experience significant barriers to healthcare. Keep accurate, contemporaneous documentation and care plans in accordance with the Nursing and Midwifery Council, local and national guidelines. Develop effective communication links with other professionals and agencies across all boundaries, at all levels of the organisation including users, carers, social care and the voluntary sector to insure effective delivery of care that provides the best outcome possible for service users. To listen and empathise with the needs of individuals interfacing with the service adjusting communication styles accordingly. Work effectively with interpreters. 4. Training To maintain competencies and professional development by regularly attending appropriate up dates and workshops to ensure a high standard of quality care is delivered. 5. Manage/Lead Self/Others Work collaboratively and in partnership with other practitioners on care practices, delivery and service development. Plan and deliver own clinics. Act as a role model for staff within the team and provide effective leadership across the organisation. Research and facilitate change in practice designed to improve clinical outcomes and meet the needs of patients and care givers that are consistent with local/national standards and current research. Work collaboratively as a team member to achieve the objectives of the team. To recognise ethical and legal issues which have implications for nursing practice and clinical governance and contribute to the implementation of systems to ensure clinical governance processes. Partake in clinical supervision for own development. Actively participate in clinical and practice meetings. Act as mentor for nurses, HCAs and other professionals. Lead on setting standards and promotes best practice around mental health. Act with honesty and integrity at all times and acts as a positive ambassador for Bevan Healthcare, understanding the Community Benefit Society model and ethos. Undertake appropriate mandatory training. Participate in networking and sharing practice events with other nurses within the locality. Work within the guidelines and protocols of the Nursing and Midwifery Council, foster an empowering attitude with colleagues. Lead and manage projects as appropriate including outreach services. 6. Educator Provide expert advice on educational opportunities relating to specialist knowledge and skills in clinical practice at an individual, team and organisational level to facilitate and ensure the development and support of both standard and advanced nursing practice. Assist with the recognition, assessment and development of the learning needs of colleagues, participating in the creation, delivery and evaluation of learning opportunities that fulfil these requirements. 7. Management and Use of Information Obtain, analyse, share and use current information for decision making. Use information as a basis to raise standards of practice and service delivery. Participate in research and clinical audit projects/QOF/KPPIs. Foster a culture of lifelong learning to colleagues and students. 8. Research and Development Regular involvement in research/evaluation and/or development work which may be as part of one or more formal research programmes or activities. Identifies, applies and disseminates research findings relating to clinical practice. Support practitioners to undertake audit within service specific areas.