Clinical Nurse Specialist | South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health organization in the UK is seeking a Senior Non-Medical Prescriber to manage community drug and alcohol services. The role requires strong leadership skills, effective clinical management, and the ability to work with complex client needs. You will oversee staff training and development, ensure high standards of care, and maintain collaboration with local stakeholders. Experience in a supportive clinical environment is essential for this position.

Benefits

High-quality learning and development opportunities

Involvement in research projects

Qualifications

• Must have a strong background in community drug and alcohol services.
• Experience in managing clinical teams and complex cases is required.
• Ability to support and train staff in clinical practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the prescribing team for RWCDAS.
• Deliver effective treatment solutions for clients with complex needs.
• Ensure adherence to clinical protocols and operational procedures.
• Oversee staff supervision and development.

Skills

Effective assessment skills

Leadership skills

Communication skills

Clinical oversight

Ability to manage change

Education

Non-Medical Prescribing qualification

Relevant nursing qualification

Job description

We are excited to be recruiting to a DATRIG (Drug and Alcohol Treatment, Recovery and Improvement Grant) funded Senior Non-Medical Prescriber post to support our community drug and alcohol services to offer safe, effective and rapid prescribing options to our complex and often hard to reach service user cohorts, as well as to offer wider clinical leadership to the teams.

To undertake clinical and management responsibility for a team of nurses and recovery workers in Richmond and Wandsworth Community Drug and Alcohol Services (RWCDAS). The post holder will have a clinical operational overview on the day to day running of the service. This will include ensuring the service is safe and effective, delivers on all performance targets and achieves positive outcomes with clients. The Senior NMP will operate as a member of the management team, overseeing the ongoing development of recovery focused and evidence-based interventions for service users across Wandsworth and Richmond. This post is funded through the Government's Drug and Alcohol Treatment, Recovery and Improvement Grant (DATRIG). Many of our services users are hard-to-reach as they struggle with multiple complex physical and psychological needs, some of whom require rapid safe prescribing. It is vital that the post holder has effective assessment, prescribing and leadership skills, can implement and

manage change, has a proactive approach to communication and is skilled in developing links and maintaining partnership arrangements with other services across the borough, as well as within RWCDAS.

Services are provided by a multi-disciplinary team comprising of Consultants, Doctors, Nurses, Psychologists, Recovery Workers, Peer Mentors and Volunteers.

Richmond and Wandsworth Community Drug and Alcohol Service is part of the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, within the Addictions Directorate. The Trust provides recognised high quality learning and development opportunities as well as offering the chance to be involved in research projects through the Institute of Psychiatry and globally respected Addictions Department.

This is a consortium partnership comprised of We Are With You, St. Mungos, CDARS and SLaM, with SLaM being the lead agency in this model. This is a cross borough contract since 1st April 2020 with shared leadership and specialist roles as well as local core services.

WCDAS and RCDAS provide an excellent and first class range of drug and alcohol treatment options to residents of the two boroughs. Our services are busy and dynamic, with a strong recovery focus. We currently operate a core site in each borough plus various satellites including in primary care. We in-reach to local hospitals, prisons, supported hostels and offer street outreach. We work closely with local stakeholders including service user representatives with lived experience, social care and mental health. We offer one to one and group psycho-social interventions, and a comprehensive online offer, alongside prescribing and psychology.

We actively work to be an anti-racist service for service users, staff and partners, where speaking up is encouraged at all levels.

Responsibilities

1. To provide strong and decisive leadership and management of all staff within RWCDAS. To manage the staff team and all day-to-day prescribing issues of the service. To take the lead role in the induction, training and retention of staff. To deputise at designated times in the absence of the Borough Lead or Clinical Team Leaders.
2. To ensure regular clinical and line management supervision, appraisal and teaching of staff across the team to ensure high standard of client care. To identify and support opportunities for staff development and training, and to support this aim use role modelling to motivate and educate the team.
3. To take responsibility for the management of a defined caseload of clients with complex needs and facilitation of nurse led clinics or other elements of front-line service delivery where required. To deliver nurse specific interventions such as vaccinations and where appropriately qualified deliver non-medical prescribing within scope of practice and Trust guidelines for alcohol and drug clients attending the service.
4. To ensure service information requirements are met through the production of required statistics and data and ensuring this remains a priority.
5. Undertaking of regular audits to ensure that all clinical records/ practice is of a high quality.
6. To actively promote and encourage service user and carer involvement in the service.
7. To draft/ review/ evaluate clinical protocols/ operational procedures as required, to ensure the service is responsive to changes in practice, trends in substance use and legislation.
8. To manage human resources issues to optimum effect including being involved in and leading on staff recruitment and selection process, performance management, sickness management etc. as required.
9. To have knowledge and awareness of expenditure in relation to budget and prescribing costs, identifying and reporting on cost pressures where appropriate.
10. With RWCDAS seniors, identify appropriate areas of development in collaboration with other partners. To develop and maintain effective links and lines of communication with partnership agencies, Trust departments, commissioners, CCG and other local stakeholders.
11. To ensure effective investigation of complaints and serious untoward incidents in consultation with RWCDAS seniors, and to identify systems learning as a result of such investigations and implement changes as appropriate.