Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Provide high quality care to patients under the Homeless Health Service
• 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.
• To act as the clinical/professional interface between the Homeless Health Team and hospital consultants and other medical team members.
• • Research, teaching and training.
• To promote the education of hospital staff regarding issues related to homelessness and Inclusion Health.
• To support joint learning and development activities with the other NWL Homeless Health teams.
• To ensure collection of robust monitoring and performance data, and to participate in research activity in collaboration with other NWL Homeless Health teams.
• • Strategy and business planning
• To represent the Trust at appropriate clinical networks/other external clinical meetings.
• • Leadership and team working
• To clinically lead, support and promote the specialist Homelessness team in the hospital.
• To lead regular ward rounds in the hospital attending all homeless patients admitted.
• To promote and lead weekly multi -disciplinary team meetings for hospital, primary care and voluntary sector staff working with the most challenging patients.
• To foster and maintain staff commitment to the core ethos of compassionate care, and integrated patient-centred medicine.
Person specification
Education/ Qualifications
Essential criteria
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Essential criteria
Provide high quality care to patients under the Homeless Health Service
• 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.
• To act as the clinical/professional interface between the Homeless Health Team and hospital consultants and other medical team members.
• • Research, teaching and training.
• To promote the education of hospital staff regarding issues related to homelessness and Inclusion Health.
• To support joint learning and development activities with the other NWL Homeless Health teams.
• To ensure collection of robust monitoring and performance data, and to participate in research activity in collaboration with other NWL Homeless Health teams.
• • Strategy and business planning
• To represent the Trust at appropriate clinical networks/other external clinical meetings.
• • Leadership and team working
• To clinically lead, support and promote the specialist Homelessness team in the hospital.
• To lead regular ward rounds in the hospital attending all homeless patients admitted.
• To promote and lead weekly multi -disciplinary team meetings for hospital, primary care and voluntary sector staff working with the most challenging patients.
• To foster and maintain staff commitment to the core ethos of compassionate care, and integrated patient-centred medicine.
Person specification
Education/ Qualifications
Essential criteria
- On GMC's register with a Licence to Practice or eligible to apply for GMC registration and a Licence to Practice
- On GMC's Specialist Register or within six months of being admitted to the register by the date of the interviews or eligible for specialist registration.
- Appropriate Royal College Membership
- Qualified general practitioner.
Essential criteria
- Good working knowledge of secondary care environments.
- Commitment to the development of integrated care pathways.
- IT Skills and computer literacy
Essential criteria
- Ability and commitment to leading a multidisciplinary team and multidisciplinary team meeting.
- Able to take responsibility, show leadership, make decisions, exert appropriate authority.
- Management of staff
- Knowledge of finance/budgets
- Have proven skills in leading, motivating, developing and managing the performance of colleagues.
Essential criteria
- Experience of teaching and training undergraduates/postgraduates and junior medical staff
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- Good understanding of the role of clinical governance in maintaining high quality clinical care standards
- Understanding of principles of clinical audit
Essential criteria
- Evidence of achievement appropriate to appointment at consultant level at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Essential criteria
- Able to speak and write English to the appropriate standard necessary to fulfil the job requirements