Addictions Clinical Nurse Specialist

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust; London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking organization dedicated to improving health outcomes for individuals struggling with addiction. As an Addictions Clinical Nurse Specialist, you will play a crucial role in supporting clients with diverse health needs, providing personalized treatment plans, and promoting health awareness. This role offers the opportunity to work within a well-established NHS provider, committed to high-quality care and continuous development. If you are passionate about making a difference in the lives of others and thrive in a collaborative environment, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Qualifications

• Post-registration experience in Mental Health or Substance Misuse.
• Experience in undertaking Risk Assessments and Risk Management.

Responsibilities

• Conduct initial assessments to evaluate addiction severity.
• Collaborate with an interdisciplinary team for treatment planning.

Skills

Good communication skills

Ability to work autonomously

Understanding of harm minimisation

IT literate

Education

RMN / RN on the NMC register

Completion of preceptorship

Tools

Microsoft Word

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Job Overview

The role is specific to supporting those who aim to improve health outcomes, especially for those who continually consume alcohol, where traditional structured treatment will not be appropriate.

Job Overview

The role is specific to supporting those who aim to improve health outcomes, especially for those who continually consume alcohol, where traditional structured treatment will not be appropriate.

The aim of the service is to help those with a range of health needs, including drug and alcohol use, access appropriate treatment and address clients' physical and mental health. The service will provide essential health promotion to increase the number of clients engaging with services to address their health and well-being.

Main duties of the job

• Patient Assessment: Conduct initial assessments to evaluate addiction severity and monitor patient progress.
• Treatment Planning: Collaborate with an interdisciplinary team to develop and implement individualised treatment plans.
• Medication management - issuing scripts for patients on OST and patients on alcohol community detox.
  
  

Working for our organisation

CNWL Addictions is a well-established NHS provider offering high-quality drug and alcohol treatment interventions to the diverse and multicultural population across Ealing, Brent, Hillingdon, Hackney, and Hounslow. We also have the tri-borough Club Drug Clinic and National Problem Gambling Service.

The service is committed to a harm minimisation philosophy and partnership working. Our main partners are primary care services, social services, and the third sector.

Treatments are provided across all our clinical centres. The Clinical Governance framework is well established, and the service prides itself on its continuous development towards becoming a learning organisation.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

For further information about the advertised role, please refer to the job description & person specification included in the documents section of this advert.

Case load management

Chair key meetings - MDT, Case Managers meetings etc

Running clinics - Fibroscan, ECG, BBV, Pabrinex and Nursing assessments

Supervising Junior staff members, recovery practitioners and students

Person specification

Education And Qualifications

Essential criteria

• RMN / RN on the NMC register
• Evidence of completion of preceptorship OR continuing personal development and post- registration training in the care, assessment and treatment of Mental Health or substance misuse service users.
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Completed the Motivational Interviewing Training Module
  
  

Previous Experience

Essential criteria

• Post-registration experience in Mental Health or Substance Misuse
• Experience in undertaking Risk Assessments and Risk Management
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Experience of working in and delivering services to substance misusers.
• Experience working with Patient Information Systems
  
  

Skills and knowledge

Essential criteria

• Good communication skills (verbal and written) plus good levels of numeracy
• Ability to work autonomously and to prioritise effectively
• An appreciation of the range of issues that may affect substance misusers
• An understanding of harm minimisation and health promotion in the specific context of substance misuse
• IT literate: competent using Microsoft Word and able to report clinical activity data on patient information systems
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Experience of managing a caseload within the community
• Awareness/knowledge of research skills
• Awareness of counselling models
• Awareness of public health issues pertaining to substance misusers
  
  

Attitudes, aptitudes, personal characteristics

Essential criteria

• Ability to treat service users with respect and dignity at all times, adopting a culturally sensitive approach, which considers the needs of the whole person.
• Able to build constructive relationships with warmth and empathy, using good communication skills
• Non-judgmental attitude to client group
• The post holder must have the ability to understand and implement the Equal and Diversity policy at a level appropriate to the job

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Health Care Provider

• Industries

  Hospitals and Health Care

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