Substance Misuse Nurse

Change Grow Live

7d•Onsite

About The Position

Change Grow Live is a charity dedicated to helping Service Users change the direction of their lives, grow as individuals, and live life to its full potential. Their core values are ‘Be open, be compassionate and be bold’. Nurses play an integral part in Change Grow Live's mission by offering specialist clinical interventions to people who use their services. This excellent opportunity in the Norwich Team is for an energetic and passionate Substance Misuse Nurse to help shape the vision for providing clinical services to individuals whose lives have been affected by drugs and alcohol. The role involves undertaking physical and mental health assessments, providing education and health promotion, contributing to the Naloxone Strategy, developing therapeutic alliances, ensuring best practice, providing harm reduction advice, and recording client data.

Requirements

First level registered nurse with recent relevant post qualification experience and a current PIN
Sound and demonstrable knowledge of harm reduction and health promotion interventions
Ability to assess and recovery plan service users and formulate written reports, as necessary.
Clinical auditing skills to inform evaluation of the service and identify areas for development.
Employ a professional, empathetic, and non-judgmental attitude towards service users and all stakeholders.
An understanding of the importance of professional integrity in relationships with service users, peers, and other relevant professionals

Nice To Haves

Relevant recent experience of working within drug and alcohol treatment

Responsibilities

Undertake physical and mental health assessments for people who access our services when indicated by clinical need and ensure appropriate sign posting/referral to primary care or appropriate secondary health care services for identified health issues.
Provide education, health promotion and screening for blood borne viruses (BBV).
Provide Hepatitis B vaccinations when indicated.
Contribute to CGL’s Naloxone Strategy by training staff and service users in the use of Naloxone.
Ensuring Naloxone is distributed to service users at every opportunity.
Develop therapeutic alliances with people who have substance misuse problems and develop effective partnerships with them.
Ensure that procedures are constantly reviewed to promote best practice and evidenced based practice in accordance with UK Guidelines on Clinical Management, NICE guidance, and CGL clinical protocols and procedures.
Provide harm reduction advice to injecting service users, providing information and equipment and ensure all equipment is disposed of safely.
Record and input client data and information in order that the service operates within contractual, administrative, and financial requirements.

Benefits

25 days holiday (+ bank holidays) rising by 1 day for each years’ service “Capped at 30 days”.
Paid ‘Wellness’ hour each week along with a ‘Wellness’ hub and Employee Assist Programme
Contributory pension scheme
Annual reimbursement of your NMC fee
Dedicated and protected professional development time.
Access to excellent training programmes including the RCNi learning platform.
A great selection of benefits incl. discounts for shopping, cinema, holidays, etc.
A friendly and supportive team
Training, career development & progression opportunities
Protected monthly CPD.
Our nursing pay is competitive with the NHS Agenda for Change pay bands.