Clinical SMS Nurse

NHS Jobs; Newport; On-site; GBP 43,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS Jobs is seeking a dedicated Clinical SMS Nurse to support recovery-focused care within the prison environment, joining the Integrated Mental Health and Substance Misuse Service at HMP Isle of Wight. You will work with a forward-thinking team to assess needs, provide compassionate care and help people move towards safer, healthier outcomes.

Key duties include accepting referrals, completing health assessments, giving harm-reduction guidance, and coordinating care with multi-disciplinary

Qualifications

• Nursing Qualification RGN/RMN.
• Training/Qualification in substance use or hard‑to‑reach care.
• Experience with CBT and motivational interviewing.
• Experience in brief solution-focused therapy and mapping techniques.
• Strong communication and patient engagement skills.

Responsibilities

• Accept referrals, assess need and oversee health care assessments.
• Provide harm reduction advice on safer drug use, safer sex, HIV/HBV/HCV.
• Maintain a robust health care caseload and address health inequalities.
• Perform clinical checks: urine screens, vital signs, ECGs, blood pressure.
• Support alcohol and drug detoxes under Band 7 prescriber supervision.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to review care plans and referrals.

Skills

CBT

Motivational Interviewing

Brief solution-focused therapy

Psycho-social interventions

Dual diagnosis support

Education

Nursing Qualification RGN/RMN

Substance use training

Job description

Do you want to make a real difference as a Clinical SMS Nurse? Why not bring your compassion and skills to help support people in their recovery? Our Integrated Mental Health and Substance Misuse Service at HMP Isle of Wight is looking for a dynamic and experienced Clinical SMS Nurse. The team is innovative, forward thinking and committed to a Recovery focused approach that meets people's needs. You will be part of a supportive team with effective management, supervision and guidance. Working with people who have complex offending backgrounds and substance use needs within prison is both challenging and rewarding. This is a fantastic chance to make a positive difference to the lives of people who are often disadvantaged and vulnerable. Are you:

• passionate about providing high quality substance use care and support?
• skilled/experienced in providing support to people, to make positive changes and work towards recovery?
• highly motivated with the ability to support and inspire?
• able to apply your skills/interventions to the care of people with substance use needs that often co-exist with mild to moderate mental health needs.

Main duties of the job

• To accept healthcare referrals, assess need and oversee all health care assessment to support service user's access timely treatment.
• Provide harm reduction advice, information and support with an emphasis on safer drug use, safer sex, HIV, Hepatitis A, B and C and other blood borne infections
• Be responsible for maintaining a robust health care case load supporting the health inequalities agenda.
• To carry out clinical interventions such as urine screening and CIWA-Ar and COWS, vital sign assessment, ECG's including blood pressure, and other physical health checks.
• To carry out alcohol and drug detoxes supported by the Band 7 Nurse Prescriber.
• To carry out comprehensive assessments, construct care packages with multi-disciplinary colleagues where required, review care plans in a structured format and manage onward referral.

About us

Inclusion, created in 2002 is part of the Specialist Services Care Group of Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT). We provide caring and effective services across England, including, West Yorkshire, West Midlands, East Midlands, West Mercia, Thames Valley, Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Thurrock, Essex. We support individuals, families and communities who are affected by addiction, crime, mental health or need treatment for their sexual health. We believe that the individuals and families who use our services should receive high quality, committed and inclusive care, realising all the benefits a modern NHS organisation can provide.We work with patients and our staff teams to achieve the best outcomes we can. We invest heavily in training and development, and the wellbeing of our people, both staff and service users is central to who we are. Here at MPFT, we are proud of the comprehensive wellbeing and lifestyle support offer available, in addition to in-house training and coaching support. Our services are robustly governed, evidence-based, inclusive, and designed and provided in conjunction with service users. We are committed to providing the best service we can, and if you share our values, we want you on our team! For more information about HMP Isle of Wight and our incentives offer please see attached information.

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached job description for the full list of duties and responsibilities. A summary is as follows: To assist and support medical and nurse prescribers during prescribing clinics. To provide a range of structured psycho-social interventions including CBT based brief solution focused therapy and motivational enhancement techniques. To support service users with dual diagnosis needs. To create and facilitate health education initiatives and group work interventions. Demonstrable commitment to service user involvement. To work with a range of professional in ensuring service users needs in terms of safeguarding and mental health are met.

Qualifications

• Nursing Qualification RGN/RMN
• Relevant training / Qualification in substance use or health care for hard-to-reach individuals
• CBT
• Motivational Interviewing
• Brief solution focussed therapy
• Mapping techniques (ITEP/BTEI)

Experience

• Considerable experience of working with drug and alcohol
• Excellent communication skills and a willingness to promote service user involvement.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.