Homeless Health Outreach Nurse: RGN | North London NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 28 November 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £53,751 - £60,651 Per annum inclusive of Outer London HCAS |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 28 December 2025 |
| Location: | Haringey, N15 3TH |
| Company: | Camden And Islington NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7617523/455-NLFT-0497 |
Summary
The post is part of an initiative to improve the quality and culture of care provided, and to enhance the therapeutic offer available, to people who are street homeless in boroughs of Barnet, Enfield and Haringey through:
• Providing a responsive service that will identify mental and physical health problems.
• Working in collaboration with other services to deliver care and interventions, based on clinical need, at the right time.
• Providing interventions to support people to move off the streets and to facilitate them to sustain a more settled lifestyle.
• Referring patients on to the most appropriate service and to support them until accepted.
• Ensuring that all service users are registered with a GP.
• Undertaking health assessments, administering medication and treatments, and performing diagnostic tests.
• Providing and evaluating a range of health interventions to ensure that patients health and social care needs are met.
• Delivering a high standard of patient care, using advanced autonomous clinical skills, and a broad and in- depth theoretical knowledge base.
• Assessing, diagnosing and treating patients conditions, initiating direct referrals as appropriate.
• As a vital part of our MDT team, you will be supporting and caring for a diverse patient group.
Key elements of our work will be:
• Early detection, support and management of long-term conditions
• Annual health checks/screening programmes
• Health promotion
• Healthy lifestyles
• Physical activities / social prescribing
1. Provide high quality care to patients with both physical and mental health difficulties
2. Independently manage a caseload of patients who may have long term or complex multiple physical health needs
3. Support the delivery of physical healthcare training in collaboration with the head of physical health team
4. Take charge on a regular basis and assist in the supervision and/or development of junior staff, nurses, support workers and students, as well as support the development of evidence-based practice.
5. Work collaboratively across disciplines, and partners to enhance the impact and sustainability of the health and wellbeing
• See attached document for further details
Why choose to join the North London NHS Foundation Trust?
We believe that by working together, our Trust can achieve more for the residents of North Central London and our patients than we can by working apart.
Our Five-Year Strategy:
1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
4. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.
Why NLFT?
· Transforming and creating a positive environment for our service users, staff and visitors.
• We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
• We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
• NHS Discounts, generous annual leave allowance and NHS pension scheme
• We have excellent internal staff network support groups.
Qualifications
Essential
• RGN qualification
• Current NMC registration
Desirable
• Prescribing qualification
Experience
• Minimum of 12 months practice experience at Band 6
• Professional development
• Audit
Please kindly refer to the entire job description and person specification by clicking on the JD/PS attachment in the advert.
This advert closes on Sunday 14 Dec 2025