About Pathway
Pathway is a small but high impact charity. Our mission is to improve the health of and healthcare provision for people experiencing homelessness, and other marginalised groups. We support hospital-based teams caring for people experiencing homelessness, promote the development of good practice, influence policy, and manage the Faculty for Homeless and Inclusion Health – a network of healthcare professionals and people with lived experience of homelessness – to ensure the fundamental rights of marginalised people to be treated with dignity and compassion.
In 2021, we entered into a partnership with Crisis which has enabled us to grow our impact and influence. We are focused on expanding our network of hospital-based teams through the Pathway Partnership Programme, making the case for the importance of healthcare provision for people who are marginalised, and supporting our networks of clinicians to develop innovation and good practice.
About the role
The main focus of the role is to work within the Pathway Partnership Programme – the programme’s work includes undertaking needs assessments for, setting up and supporting Pathway teams in hospitals and community settings across the UK based on the Pathway model. There are currently 9 teams across England signed up to the programme.
The post holder will, as a senior clinical member of the Pathway Partnership Support team:
- develop and deliver the training and support programme in partnership with Pathway colleagues
- contribute to the development and monitoring of the Pathway Partnership team comprehensive health assessment process and the Quality Framework
- act as the Lead Nurse for the Pathway Partnership Programme, providing expert clinical leadership, mentorship, training and support to all staff within the teams on a 1:1 and team basis covering both clinical, organisational and strategic aspects of care as needed
- contribute to the evaluation of nominated services, and produce reports on services as needed
- identify clinical risks within services, and clinical risk patterns across services, and work to reduce these at both a local and national level
- be the safeguarding policy lead for the project
In addition, the post-holder may be involved in the work of Pathway more generally and/or the Faculty of Homeless and Inclusion Health, which has wider charitable objectives-to improve care for inclusion health patients in a wide variety of settings and contexts.
Travel within England and Wales is required, with occasional overnight stays, in order visit Pathway teams and attend events related to Pathway’s work. Travel and other necessary expenses will be fully reimbursed.
As Lead Nurse the post-holder may:
- support work to demonstrate up to date clinical and strategic knowledge across the breadth of inclusion health
- represent Pathway and the Faculty in a variety of different contexts as needed e.g. at national level meetings, conferences etc.
- collaborate with and/or support others both in and outside the organisation to undertake research, innovate, develop services, and improve care for inclusion health groups across all health care settings as directed
- undertake ad hoc brief support to inclusion health professionals around the country in a variety of settings in discussion with managers
- provide training in a variety of settings to a variety of audiences as needed
- identify opportunities for the development of Pathway, and Faculty objectives
How to apply
Please apply with CV and covering letter to info@pathway.org.uk.
The closing date is Monday 16 September, with interviews in week commencing 23rd September.
See below for the full job description and person specification.