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About the Role

Change Grow Live is a charity dedicated to improving the lives of service users. This role focuses on providing specialist clinical interventions to individuals who are homeless or at risk of homelessness, aiming to improve their choice, control, and overall well-being.

Responsibilities

• Carry out physical and psycho-social assessments for the homeless population using nursing skills and knowledge.
• Provide clinical and therapeutic treatments based on evidence to improve health outcomes for the homeless population.
• Perform screening for blood-borne viruses (BBV) through dry blood spot testing.
• Work within and consolidate integrated care and treatment pathways for individuals with BBV/s (Hepatite B, Hepatitis C, HIV).
• Administer Hepatitis A and/or B vaccinations when indicated.
• Collaborate with other community teams and voluntary organizations to ensure seamless care delivery for the homeless population.
• Act as an advocate for people experiencing homelessness, supporting their choices and promoting independence.
• Contribute to the CGL Naloxone Strategy by training staff and individuals in naloxone use.
• Offer wound care assessment and basic wound dressing, organizing signposting to other services as needed.

Requirements

• First-level registered nurse with recent relevant post-qualification experience.
• Current nursing PIN.
• Demonstrable knowledge of harm reduction and health promotion interventions.
• Ability to assess and recovery plan service users and formulate written reports.
• Clinical auditing skills.
• Professional, empathetic, and non-judgmental attitude towards service users and stakeholders.
• Understanding of professional integrity in relationships with service users, peers, and other professionals.
• This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at an enhanced level.

Skills

• Nursing skills
• Psycho-social assessment
• Clinical interventions
• Harm reduction
• Health promotion
• Screening for blood borne viruses
• Wound care assessment
• Naloxone training
• Advocacy
• Communication
• Active listening
• Clinical auditing

Location

• Barnet and surrounding areas

Work Type

• Full-time
• 37.5 hours per week
• Includes weekend and evening work

Experience Level

• Recent relevant post qualification experience

Education Level

• First level registered nurse

Salary/Compensations

• £38,114.53 - £44,469.24 (CGL points 33 to 39)
• Outer London Weighting: £2,250.61

Benefits

• 25 days holiday (+ bank holidays) rising by 1 day for each year of service (capped at 30 days)
• Paid 'Wellness' hour each week
• 'Wellness' hub
• Employee Assist Programme
• Contributory pension scheme
• Annual reimbursement of NMC fee
• Dedicated and protected professional development time
• Access to excellent training programmes including the RCNi learning platform
• Discounts for shopping, cinema, holidays, etc.
• Friendly and supportive team
• Training, career development & progression opportunities
• Protected monthly CPD
• Regular 1:1s and appraisals
• Protected continuing professional development time (up to 6 days per year)
• Free access to the RCNi learning platform
• Payment for NMC fee
• Opportunity to use government-backed Apprenticeship Levy fund

About the Company

• Change Grow Live is a charity dedicated to the belief that we can make a difference to our Service Users lives.
• Our core values are ‘Be open, be compassionate and be bold’.
• Our teams apply these daily offering support and respect in a safe environment, treating each user as an individual and working with them to find the right treatment and care options.