Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:
Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary's, Queen Charlotte's & Chelsea and Western Eye.
With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.
We are an NHS Trust of approximately 16,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.
We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.
With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.
We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.
Job overview
We are delighted to offer an outstanding opportunity for a skilled practitioner with significant experience of working with people that are homeless or rough sleeping to lead the specialist Homeless Health team across Imperial College NHS Trust.
You will provide operational management support to the Homeless Health team and will work closely with the GP Clinical Lead in the evaluation and ongoing development of the service. In addition to the three years funding to continue the development of our inpatient service, additional money has been provided for one year to more effectively in-reach into Emergency Department. You will oversee the development of this service.
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.
A strong understanding of how self-neglect is part of homelessness, safeguarding and the complexities of undertaking mental capacity assessments in inclusion health groups is desirable.
Main duties of the job
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.
Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.
Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
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. .
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.
For both overviews, please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.
Person specification
Education/ Qualifications
Essential criteria
Essential criteria
Essential criteria
If you need sponsorship to work in the UK, please visit the Home Office website for information on sponsorship and visa status before you fill in your application form. Due to recent changes in the UK immigration rules which affect Skilled Worker Visas, Global Business Mobility, Higher Skill Level and Increased Salary Thresholds, please ensure that you are able to meet the requirements to live and work in the UK before applying. Further information about eligibility is available on UK Visas and Immigration - GOV.UK
Please ensure you check your emails regularly as this is how we will communicate with you throughout the recruitment process. If you are shortlisted you will be contacted by email and text message (if you provide a mobile contact number).
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary's, Queen Charlotte's & Chelsea and Western Eye.
With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.
We are an NHS Trust of approximately 16,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.
We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.
With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.
We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.
Job overview
We are delighted to offer an outstanding opportunity for a skilled practitioner with significant experience of working with people that are homeless or rough sleeping to lead the specialist Homeless Health team across Imperial College NHS Trust.
You will provide operational management support to the Homeless Health team and will work closely with the GP Clinical Lead in the evaluation and ongoing development of the service. In addition to the three years funding to continue the development of our inpatient service, additional money has been provided for one year to more effectively in-reach into Emergency Department. You will oversee the development of this service.
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.
A strong understanding of how self-neglect is part of homelessness, safeguarding and the complexities of undertaking mental capacity assessments in inclusion health groups is desirable.
Main duties of the job
- Provide overall day to day operational leadership and direction to the Homeless Health Hospital Team across the hospital.
- Take a lead on managing the public profile of the team, and ensuring that reports, publications, presentations are delivered at an agreed standard.
- Facilitate and maintain active positive links with all key partnership agencies (e.g., homeless health services, housing, social care services, and the voluntary sector) always, developing projects and protocols to improve working relationships and service delivery as necessary.
- Develop excellent links and working relationships with the Integrated Discharge Hubs and clinical teams within the hospital maximising benefit to patients.
- Be an expert in relation to the physical health, mental health and addiction related conditions that commonly effect homeless people and deliver advice across the hospital as necessary.
- Assist in the development of Trust strategies to improve the quality of homeless patients' discharge.
- Motivate, develop, and always support other staff and students, taking part in reflection and appropriate learning from practice, in order to maintain and develop competence and performance.
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.
Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.
Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
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. .
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.
For both overviews, please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.
Person specification
Education/ Qualifications
Essential criteria
- BSc/1st degree (health related) or equivalent qualification/training and experience
- Professional Registration in an appropriate health care discipline (e.g., Nursing, Occupational Therapy)
- Specialist training, experience, and short courses to master's level equivalent.
- Teaching and assessing or mentorship course.
- Completion of an appropriate management / leadership programme
- To have or be currently working towards a master's degree
- Dual qualification
- Specialist qualification in a relevant area e.g., addictions
Essential criteria
- Extensive experience of working with clients with complex needs and social excluded groups (e.g., homeless, refugees and people with addictions)
- Experience of managing homeless frequent attenders or delayed discharges
- Substantial management experience in leading clinical teams
- Extensive experience of managing a range of professional staff and working in multidisciplinary teams
- Substantial experience in working across organizational and sector boundaries.
- Extensive experience of working with and safeguarding vulnerable adults
- Teaching experience informal and formal
- Recruitment and retention experience
- Substantial experience of objective setting and performance management/ review
- Substantial experience of setting and monitoring quality standards
- Substantial experience of project management and delivering outcomes
- Substantial experience of undertaking audit and implementing action plans
- Experience of working with service users to ensure their views are heard and translated into service improvements.
- Experience of managing team clinical supervision structures
- Experience of working with a variety of different clinical systems
- Experience of report writing
- Experience of setting up new teams
- Experience of leading a Homeless Health team or similar
- Experience of working in partnership with voluntary / statutory agencies
- Direct experience of working with Refugees / Asylum Seekers, including an understanding of background legal issues
- Experience of using a GP clinical system e.g., EMIS
- Substantial experience of working with service users
- Experience of delivering large group supervision
- Experience of undertaking and reporting on research
Essential criteria
- Excellent clinical skills, and extensive knowledge relevant to the client group
- Excellent organisational, time management and project management skills
- Able to interpret complex information (e.g., immigration policies) that affect the client groups.
- Able to gather and analyze complex data.
- Skills in work processing, spreadsheets, emails, using the internet, clinical system and databases: ability to make presentations.
- Excellent IT skills
- Excellent communication and leadership skills, to provide clear direction and lead team to success.
- Able to lead a number of team's projects, planning and implementing service development across health and social care communities.
- Ability and knowledge to establish a clear and systematic approach to risk management and clinical governance.
- Skilled to supervise, manage and monitor staff and students, and effectively manage poor performance if necessary.
- Excellent understanding of Clinical Governance
- Up to date knowledge of recent NHS developments
- Understanding of homelessness strategies - international, national, and local
- Understanding of housing strategies and law - international, national, and local
- Understanding of asylum strategies - international, national, and local
- Excellent organization skills and ability to meet deadlines.
If you need sponsorship to work in the UK, please visit the Home Office website for information on sponsorship and visa status before you fill in your application form. Due to recent changes in the UK immigration rules which affect Skilled Worker Visas, Global Business Mobility, Higher Skill Level and Increased Salary Thresholds, please ensure that you are able to meet the requirements to live and work in the UK before applying. Further information about eligibility is available on UK Visas and Immigration - GOV.UK
Please ensure you check your emails regularly as this is how we will communicate with you throughout the recruitment process. If you are shortlisted you will be contacted by email and text message (if you provide a mobile contact number).
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
- JD (PDF, 433.6KB)
- FRF (PDF, 272.6KB)
- Our Strategy 2023-25 (PDF, 230.4KB)