Overview
The post holder will have the responsibility for the autonomous management of their own caseload of patients, providing a comprehensive, specialist nursing service for clients with often complex health and social needs. To liaise with and act upon referrals from patients and members of the team within the organisation. The post holder will have responsibility for health specific clinical activity within outreach services which will include the monitoring of standards of care and service, staff support, continuous professional development, and supporting practice education. The post holder will provide/coordinate crisis intervention to patients. You will work in partnership with General Practitioners, Consultants, Nursing and Social Care colleagues to manage patients with a range of acute, non-acute and chronic mental health conditions. Your role will include referring patients as appropriate to other members of the multidisciplinary team, secondary care and to other statutory and voluntary organisations. Providing and promoting evidence based care in line with appropriate clinical guidelines and works within clinical protocols, professional guidelines, codes of conduct and works within all relevant policies and procedural guidelines. You will challenge professional and organisational boundaries, identify areas for skill/knowledge development and apply these to practice to provide continuity and high quality patient health care for our patient group. Your role will include communicating highly sensitive condition-related information to patients, relatives and carers, as well as audit outcomes of care against standards and initiates changes as necessary. There will be a necessity to provide street outreach services as part of this role which will involve providing services for patients in locations outside of the surgery environment.
Bevan – about us
Bevan are a pioneering social enterprise established in 2011 and now widely regarded as being at the forefront of health and wellbeing services for highly vulnerable groups who face social barriers to accessing care. Bevan operate across West and North Yorkshire and our patients include:
* Refugees and Asylum Seekers
* People experiencing homelessness or who are insecurely housed
* Sex workers
* Gypsy, Roma and Traveller groups
Many Bevan patients have complex needs, have experienced trauma and or have addiction and or mental health issues. We take a holistic approach to healthcare and our work is informed by the social determinants of health model pictured here. We pride ourselves in a responsive and person led approach finding compassionate solutions for individuals that benefit both the individual and the system as a whole. We are a social enterprise which enables us to respond to the needs of our patients in a responsive way and to evolve our services with the changing needs of the patients we serve. As a social enterprise any profits we make are invested back into services for our patients.
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