Addiction Team Lead Nurse

Bolton NHS Foundation Trust; Lancashire; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 76,000; Full time

Job summary

Bolton NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an Addiction Lead Nurse to lead and develop the Integrated Addiction Service, managing a team of practitioners and delivering evidence-based care for addiction-related issues across hospital and community settings. The post focuses on senior clinical leadership, education, protocol development, and audit to improve patient outcomes.

The role involves nurse-led clinics, staff supervision, collaboration with multidisciplinary teams, and engagement with

Responsibilities

• Run nurse-led clinics
• Assess, plan and deliver care for patients with alcohol-related illness
• Lead on education and training and develop clinical protocols
• Ensure compliance with best practice through audit and service evaluation
• Staff management and safeguarding responsibilities
• Promote pathways that reduce unnecessary hospital admissions
• Liaise with community alcohol services and make referrals
• Identify staff training needs and deliver education programmes
• Conduct clinical audits and monitor service performance

Job description

Previous applicants need not apply

The Addiction Lead Nurse is responsible for leading and developing the Trust's Integrated Addiction Service, including managing a team of Addiction practitioners. The role focuses on delivering high-quality, evidence-based care for patients experiencing addiction / dependency related issues, while working collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams across the Trust and community services.

Key responsibilities include running nurse-led clinics, assessing and managing patient care, supporting safe withdrawal practices, and promoting pathways that reduce unnecessary hospital admissions. The post holder also leads on education and training, develops clinical protocols, and ensures compliance with best practice through audit and service evaluation.

As a senior clinical leader, the role involves staff management, service improvement, safeguarding responsibilities, and non-medical prescribing. The Addiction Lead Nurse acts as a role model, contributes to research and quality improvement, and ensures services are patient-centred, effective, and aligned with organisational standards.

• Lead and develop the Integrated Addiction Service
• Manage and supervise the alcohol practitioner team
• Plan staffing and ensure effective use of resources
• Develop policies, protocols, and clinical pathways
• Run nurse-led clinics (e.g. Fibroscanning)
• Assess, plan, and deliver care for patients with alcohol-related illness
• Work closely with multidisciplinary teams across the Trust
• Liaise with community alcohol services and make referrals
• Build effective internal and external professional networks
• Identify staff training needs and deliver education programmes
• Act as a clinical role model and mentor
• Conduct clinical audits and monitor service performance
• Use evidence and feedback to improve services
• Support research and best practice in alcohol care
• Ensure compliance with legal, professional, and safeguarding standards
• Support patients and families with complex needs
• Aim to reduce unnecessary hospital admissions

We have a long and proud history of caring for generations of local people and can trace our roots all the way back to 1814 with the first hospital in Bolton – the Bolton Dispensary in the town centre.
Bolton NHS Foundation Trust was formed in 2008 and, in 2011, we became an integrated provider with community health services joining the trust. Covering a catchment area that also incorporates parts of Bury, Wigan and Salford, we deliver hospital and community based services from the Royal Bolton Hospital in Farnworth and from 20 health centres across Bolton, to a catchment population of 310,000+ people.
The Royal Bolton Hospital is a major hub within Greater Manchester for women's and children's services and is the busiest single ambulance-receiving site in Greater Manchester. We're structured in four clinical divisions – Community Services, Families and Diagnostics, Medicine, and Surgery and are led by a Board of Directors. As an NHS Foundation Trust we're accountable to our members and have a Council of Governors to represent the views of patients, public, staff and partners.
Buildings, names and models of care have changed over the centuries, but one thing has remained constant and is prevalent among our 6,718 staff members: the enduring commitment to providing the best health and care for the people of Bolton.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Samantha Osborne Job title: Advanced Clinical Practitioner Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 01204390295