Outreach Nurse

at  Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

The aim is to provide an extended service to hostels and street homeless residents within the London Borough of Brent. The role will include a range of activities addressing the client’s health and wellbeing, the development of pathways into specialist services, training of hostel and partnership outreach staff to manage residents out of hours, and improving the overall health inequalities via;
Health promotion
General Health Screening
Engagement in Primary Care services and facilitating access to organised healthcare
The purpose of this role will be imperative in improving integrated pathways to prevent fragmented services that are efficient and effective. The role is specific to supporting those who want to improve health outcomes, especially for those who continually consume alcohol where traditional structured treatment will not be appropriate. The role will require peripatetic nurse-led general health clinics within hostels, supported through general practice.
The aim of the service is to help those with a range of health needs, including drug and alcohol use, access appropriate treatment and address clients’ physical and mental health.
Furthermore, the service aims to reduce alcohol-related hospital admissions and health inequalities and improve pathways with community and hospital services.
To ensure that the care and management of this client group are delivered in compliance with HCC Quality Standards.

To provide specialist drug and alcohol outreach clinics for local hostels, GP surgeries and organized health services in Brent, including follow-up referrals of drug and alcohol clients who are hard to engage. Work closely with GP Complex.
Work closely with GP Complex Patients Management team, taking on/ follow up referrals.
To work as a member of the multidisciplinary team in the management and treatment provision of a range of specialist services to problem drinkers and problematic drug takers residing in hostels, out of reach areas.
To assess the client’s general health and provide early intervention treatment, sign posting, and referral to other organized health services.
To develop and maintain pathways into specialist services to ensure the health and well-being of residents are met, including primary care services.
To sign post service users to the appropriate health care settings to meet their needs.

To be the single point of contact for Primary care services, local Hospitals and other organized health care services.

• Identify and refer dependent drinkers and those assessed to need further input into specialist alcohol services.

CNWL- Addictions and Offender Care Directorates
CNWL Addictions is a well-established NHS provider offering a wide range of high-quality drug and alcohol treatment interventions to the diverse and multicultural population across Ealing, Brent, Hillingdon, Hackney, Hounslow. In addition, we also have the tri-borough Club Drug Clinic as well as our National Problem Gambling Service.
The service is committed to a harm minimisation philosophy and to partnership working. Our main partners are primary care services, social and the third sectors.
Treatments are provided across all our clinical centres. Clinical Governance framework is well established and the service prides itself in its continuous development towards becoming a learning organisation.
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
Please see attached JD&PS for full details of duties and responsibilities