Clinical Nurse Specialist, Homeless Care Team

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join an existing UHD multidisciplinary team, working on the Poole and Bournemouth sites, but also undertaking outreach to review patients in the community.
The aim of the service is to care for patients accessing UHD services who are homeless or at risk of homelessness and who may also have mental health, alcohol and drug misuse issues. The role will also involve the care of patients undergoing treatment for Chronic Hepatitis C across Dorset as part of the Dorset Hepatitis C Elimination Programme. This will involve working with partners in the community and on a mobile clinical van.
The service aims to enable patients to receive the best care that can be provided through improving staff education, acute care delivery and pathways to community services.
You will be someone who enjoys the challenges this type of work represents and has a passion for caring for this patient group. Someone who is used to multi-agency, multi-disciplinary working in partnership with many agencies and organizations and is confident to see patients in hospital at the bedside, at the front door in the emergency and acute admission departments, as well as in the community. The community work will include, seeing patients in their own homes, hostels etc with appropriate support, risk assessments and safeguards in place.
This post requires an active UK NMC Registration
Base Location: Bournemouth
Interview Date: TBC

We are looking to recruit a nurse with experience of working with this patient group. Our ideal candidate would have experience of working in the community as well as in the secondary care, hospital setting.
To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents which are attached to this advert.

As University Hospitals Dorset we are a three site acute trust with 'university hospital' status through our partnership with Bournemouth University, working with an annual budget of £730m.
We offer highly regarded health services, employing some 10,000 staff. Our ambitious £250m estates programme is well on the way to delivering state-of-the-art facilities over the next two years to meet the current and future healthcare needs of the populations we serve.
In an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty with over seven miles of sandy beaches you'll find inspirational opportunities to achieve your perfect work/life balance. With the New Forest and the Purbecks on our doorstep, we're also less than three hours from London by road or train. The thriving towns of Poole, Bournemouth and Christchurch give way to idyllic villages and unspoilt landscapes just minutes from our hospitals.
We believe that having a diverse workforce, and allowing people to be themselves, is essential in ensuring we offer an inclusive, welcoming and productive place to work.
We especially welcome applications from minority groups in the community who may be underrepresented in our workforce.
At UHD our active staff network groups are the Women's Network, Black Asian Minority Ethnic Group (BAME), Pride Network, European (EU), Pro Ability Staff Network, and the Armed Forces Support Group.
As a Trust we are proudly signed up to the Disability Confident and Armed Forces Covenant guaranteed interview schemes., Our values define who we are as #TeamUHD. They underpin everything we do now and in the future. They define how we treat our patients, visitors, and each other, our valued teammates and colleagues.
UHD are investing in services across the Trust, with many being transformed and developed following merger and the New Hospital Programme.
This means that some services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or long term. Recruiting Managers interviewing for this role will be happy to answer any specific questions that you have about this at interview.

Staff recruited are expected to be available to work flexibly across all our Trust locations to meet service demands.
This advert may be closed early if sufficient applications are received.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself and our patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst this vaccination is not a condition of employment we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated.
Internal Candidates: staff employed prior to merger who voluntarily change jobs will be appointed to UHD terms and conditions.