Community Addictions Nurse

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust; Erith; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust in the Bexley area is recruiting nurses from any discipline into Band 5 development posts or experienced Band 6 positions. You will participate in ongoing assessments, care planning, treatment, and support for adults with drug and alcohol issues to promote health and recovery.

The role offers professional development with potential progression to non-medical prescribing and Addiction-specific training, supported by a preceptorship program within a

Qualifications

• Registered nurse with current NMC registration.
• Experience in addiction, mental health or general medical settings is advantageous.
• Ability to work in a multidisciplinary team and manage complex care.

Responsibilities

• Lead clinical management of care packages for service users in MDT settings.
• Coordinate delivery of person-centred healthcare and respond to changes in presentation.
• Deliver individual and group CBT-based therapies and provide necessary physical care.
• Support harm reduction interventions and relevant assessments.

Skills

Nursing

Clinical assessment

Education

NMC registered nurse

Job description

Bexley Community Drug and Alcohol Service (Pier Road Project) are looking for enthusiastic, motivated, caring, and creative nurses from any discipline to come and join us. You will be working within an exciting and fast paced environment that provides high quality addictions and recovery care to a diverse service user group. The service is a partnership between NHS and voluntary services, and we work as a single service to get the highest quality of outcomes for residents over the age of 18 in Bexley.

We are looking to recruit a nurses from any discipline into a Band 5 developmental post or experienced Band 6 to be core members of the multi-disciplinary team, participating in the provision of on-going assessments, care planning, treatment, and support of people with drug and alcohol issues to promote health, independence, and recovery.

The Band 5 posts are development posts and are not solely restricted to mental health background, we welcome applications from nurses of any discipline and have worked in for example general medicine, GP surgeries, learning difficulties, sexual health etc at band 5 or higher to apply. Subject to meeting core competencies and completing where appropriate our preceptorship programmes we would look to support the post holder to transition to a Band 6 role with the expectation that they then continue their professional development with Addiction specific training and moving towards undertaking Non-Medical Prescribing Training.

• To lead the clinical management of a care package to individuals who use our services, as a member of a multi-disciplinary team.
• To co-ordinate and monitor the delivery of person-centred healthcare to a designated group of people who use our services, using complex clinical decision making where appropriate and responding to changes in presentation/ situation appropriately. To promote shared decision making with service user/relatives/carers, as appropriate, in terms of involvement in all aspects of their care.
• To deliver individual and group therapy utilising CBT skills.
• To ensure provision of the necessary physical care to help people who use our services i.e.: alcohol assessments, BBV interventions, pabrinex, medication administration physical observations.

Harm reduction interventions

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust(SLaM) provide the widest range of NHS mental health services in the UK as well as substance misuse services for people who are addicted to drugs and alcohol.

SLaM employ around 5000 staff and serve a local population of 1.1 million people. We have more than 230 services including inpatient wards, outpatient, and community services. Currently, provide inpatient care for approximately 5,300 people each year and treat more than 45,000 patients in the community in Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark; as well as substance misuse services for residents of Bexley, Lambeth, Richmond and Wandsworth