Homeless Health GP
London, England, United Kingdom Part-time Posted 3 hours ago
NWL has the largest homeless population in London. This population faces fundamental inequalities in outcomes, experience, and access – with multiple, long term, under-treated health needs and do not always get the care they need from the health and care system.
People experiencing homelessness have six times more A&E presentations, are admitted to hospital four times more often, and stay three times as long as the general population.
In hospital, they are likely to be poorly identified, experience delays once medically fit for discharge, and are at high risk of discharge to the street, readmission and poor overall health outcomes.
We have received confirmation from the NWL ICB that a business case has been approved to fund a new specialist hospital Homeless Health team up until 31st March 2029.
The Homeless Health team works in close partnership with the wards to identify people experiencing homelessness whilst they are in hospital, build therapeutic relationships with them, assist the ward multidisciplinary team to maximise the benefit of these admissions, and then support these vulnerable patients during and after discharge – ensuring that they are fully linked in to all the health care and support services they need when the team finally discharges them.
The GP role works to improve the care for homeless patients in hospital, to drive up the quality of the care they receive during a hospital stay, and to improve their quality-of-life following discharge.
Responsibilities
Working with the rest of the Homeless Health team, the GP role works to improve the care for homeless patients in hospital, to drive up the quality of the care they receive during a hospital stay, and to improve their quality-of-life following discharge. The key responsibilities of the role are to:
Working with people experiencing drug or alcohol dependence or/and domestic violence including substitute prescribing.
We encourage staff to have the Covid vaccination to protect themselves, patients, other colleagues as well as the wider community. Please note it is an operational requirement to comply with infection prevention and control procedures within the Trust such as lateral flow testing, handwashing and the wearing of masks, according to the procedures in place at any time or location.
As part of our continued response to Covid19 we are still conducting the majority of our interviews virtually.
We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part-time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Edward Redshaw Job title: Homeless Health Consultant Email address: edward.redshaw1@nhs.net
People experiencing homelessness have six times more A&E presentations, are admitted to hospital four times more often, and stay three times as long as the general population.
In hospital, they are likely to be poorly identified, experience delays once medically fit for discharge, and are at high risk of discharge to the street, readmission and poor overall health outcomes.
We have received confirmation from the NWL ICB that a business case has been approved to fund a new specialist hospital Homeless Health team up until 31st March 2029.
The Homeless Health team works in close partnership with the wards to identify people experiencing homelessness whilst they are in hospital, build therapeutic relationships with them, assist the ward multidisciplinary team to maximise the benefit of these admissions, and then support these vulnerable patients during and after discharge – ensuring that they are fully linked in to all the health care and support services they need when the team finally discharges them.
The GP role works to improve the care for homeless patients in hospital, to drive up the quality of the care they receive during a hospital stay, and to improve their quality-of-life following discharge.
Responsibilities
Working with the rest of the Homeless Health team, the GP role works to improve the care for homeless patients in hospital, to drive up the quality of the care they receive during a hospital stay, and to improve their quality-of-life following discharge. The key responsibilities of the role are to:
- To clinically lead, support and promote the specialist homelessness team in the hospital.
- To work collaboratively to improve health and social outcomes for people who are homeless.
- To promote and lead weekly multi -disciplinary team meetings for hospital, primary care and voluntary sector staff working with the most challenging patients.
- To offer clinical judgment/expertise on how best to address complex issues among this patient group, particularly with reference to the tri -morbidity of substance misuse, mental illness and physical health problems.
Working with people experiencing drug or alcohol dependence or/and domestic violence including substitute prescribing.
- Experience of working in or with the wider statutory and charitable homelessness sector.
- Experience of mental illness particularly working with patients with complex psychological trauma/diagnosed with personality disorder
- Sexual health.
We encourage staff to have the Covid vaccination to protect themselves, patients, other colleagues as well as the wider community. Please note it is an operational requirement to comply with infection prevention and control procedures within the Trust such as lateral flow testing, handwashing and the wearing of masks, according to the procedures in place at any time or location.
As part of our continued response to Covid19 we are still conducting the majority of our interviews virtually.
We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part-time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Edward Redshaw Job title: Homeless Health Consultant Email address: edward.redshaw1@nhs.net
