About the Role

As a Nurse Practitioner at St John Ambulance, you will work as part of a team to aim to reduce the number of homeless frequent attenders in A&E by providing street and hostel triage services.  Your key responsibility will be to provide specialist, clinical, social and holistic care undertaking appropriate clinical assessment and interventions, increase vaccinations, screening and treatment of blood borne viruses, refer to community based services using clear and effective pathways.

You will use your expert nursing skills to triage and treat members of the homeless community, making referrals to primary care services and ensuring reports are written into the Plan of Care as well as liaising with other healthcare professionals either in person or by phone where needed.

Please see the job description for more detail (this can be viewed on our website or once you click apply)

About You

To be successful as a Nurse Practitioner, you will bring extensive experience as a registered Nurse and a proven ability to make clinical decisions both as part of a multi-disciplinary team and when working alone. You will have excellent communication skills to create and develop relationships with external agencies and partner organisations. You will be passionate about the care, dignity and individuality of people to be successful in this role.

You will be required to be flexible and will work both daytime and evening shifts over a 37.5 hour week.

About Us

St John Ambulance works at the heart of communities, providing first aid, keeping people safe at events and working alongside the NHS in response to 999 calls.

Every year, hundreds of thousands of people learn how to save a life through our training, education and youth programmes.

Over the next decade, we have bold ambitions to help transform out-of-hospital care, having a positive impact on the people we treat and the communities we serve.

We are a team of 1,600 employees and 18,000 volunteers, united by our goal of saving lives through first aid.

You will receive;​

• Health and Wellbeing portal - Access to financial, health and wellbeing guidance and support.
• Discounts - Blue Light, NHS Discounts and SJA discounts including discounts on mobile phone, gym membership, cinema, restaurants, holidays and shopping-including your weekly food shop.

Interview Date: 10/03/2020

Application Review Date: 03/03/2020

We may review applications before the Application Review Date, however, if you apply after the Application Review Date, your application may not be considered. We will accept applications until we have successfully filled the role.

If you are a current St John Ambulance employee, please apply here: Click here

For all other candidates, or SJA volunteers wishing to apply, please apply below. .