Homeless Health GP

Job description

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

• 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.

Knowledge and Skills

Essential criteria

• Good working knowledge of secondary care environments.
• Commitment to the development of integrated care pathways.
• IT Skills and computer literacy

Leadership/ Management skills

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.

Teaching and Training

Essential criteria

• Experience of teaching and training undergraduates/postgraduates and junior medical staff

Audit

Essential criteria

• Good understanding of the role of clinical governance in maintaining high quality clinical care standards
• Understanding of principles of clinical audit

Academic achievement

Essential criteria

• Evidence of achievement appropriate to appointment at consultant level at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

Language

Essential criteria

• Able to speak and write English to the appropriate standard necessary to fulfil the job requirements

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