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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, helping them change their lives and live to their full potential.
Responsibilities
- Carry out physical and psycho-social assessments for the homeless population using nursing skills and knowledge.
- Provide clinical/therapeutic treatments based on best evidence to improve health outcomes for the homeless population.
- Provide screening for blood borne viruses (BBV) through dry blood spot testing.
- Work within and consolidate integrated care and treatment pathways for individuals infected with BBV/s (Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C and/or HIV).
- Provide Hepatitis A and/or B vaccinations when indicated.
- Partner with other community teams and voluntary organizations to ensure seamless care delivery to the homeless population.
- Act as an advocate for people experiencing homelessness, supporting their choices and promoting independence and self-care.
- Contribute to CGL Naloxone Strategy by training staff and individuals in the use of naloxone.
- Offer wound care assessment and basic wound dressing to service users.
- Organize signposting to other services and ensure clear pathways into other treatment arenas.
Requirements
- First-level registered nurse with recent relevant post-qualification experience.
- Current nursing PIN.
- Sound and demonstrable knowledge of harm reduction and health promotion interventions.
- Ability to assess and recovery plan service users and formulate written reports.
- Clinical auditing skills to inform service evaluation and identify development areas.
- Professional, empathetic, and non-judgmental attitude towards service users and stakeholders.
- Understanding of professional integrity in relationships with service users, peers, and other professionals.
- Subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at an enhanced level.
Skills
- Nursing skills
- Psycho-social assessments
- Clinical interventions
- Harm reduction
- Health promotion
- Blood borne virus screening
- Wound care assessment
- Naloxone training
- Advocacy
- 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
- CGL points 33 to 39 (£38,114.53 - £44,469.24)
- Outer London Weighting (£2,250.61)
Benefits
- 25 days holiday (+ bank holidays) rising by 1 day for each year's service (capped at 30 days)
- Paid 'Wellness' hour each week
- Access to a 'Wellness' hub
- Employee Assist Programme
- Contributory pension scheme
- Annual reimbursement of NMC fee
- Dedicated and protected professional development time
- Access to training programmes including the RCNi learning platform
- Discounts for shopping, cinema, holidays, etc.
- Training, career development & progression opportunities
- Protected monthly CPD
- Competitive nursing pay with NHS Agenda for Change pay bands
- Regular national nurse and HCA forums
- 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.
- Core values are ‘Be open, be compassionate and be bold’.
- Teams offer 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.