Community Alcohol Detox Nurse

www.healthjobsuk.com - jobboard; North East; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Durham is looking for a Community Alcohol Detox Nurse to join their team. The role involves providing holistic health services, planning and supporting community alcohol detox regimes, and working collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary team. The position is full-time with flexible hours and a salary range of £38,682 - £46,580 per annum, offering benefits such as access to NHS pension and various training opportunities.

Benefits

Access to NHS Pension

Annual leave on your Birthday

Refer a friend scheme

Training and Development opportunities

Flexible Working

Access to Employee Assistance and Health and Wellbeing programmes

Up to 33 days annual leave

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with experience in substance misuse.
• Ability to conduct health assessments and plan detox programs.
• Experience with community detoxification and opiate substitute therapies.

Responsibilities

• Provide holistic health services to individuals with unmet healthcare needs.
• Administer medication and perform diagnostic tests.
• Support service users in planning and executing detoxification processes.

Skills

Knowledge of substance misuse

Clinical assessment skills

Communication skills

Empathy and compassion

Education

RGN or RMN qualification

Tools

Theseus clinical system

Job description

Main area substance misuse/Alcohol nurses Grade NHS AfC: Band 6 Contract Fixed term: 12 months (contract is till 31st March 2026, expected extension till 2028) Hours

• Full time
• Flexible working
• Term time hours

37.5 hours per week (hours can be managed by applicant with management agreement) Job ref 847-CW-25-V638

Employer Spectrum Community Health CIC Employer type Public (Non NHS) Site CDDARS Town Durham Salary £38,682 - £46,580 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing Today at 23:59

Community Alcohol Detox Nurse

NHS AfC: Band 6

Job overview

The role is to provide a holistic health service as part of the Multi-Disciplinary Team to service users (SU) with unmet healthcare needs and to take account of other health problems that could interact with drug treatment within the Substance Misuse Service. In conjunction with the management team contribute to the delivery of comprehensive harm reduction, Opiate Substitute Therapies and promoting a professional and safe service and predominantly plan and support community alcohol detox regimes.

The role of the Registered Nurse is to undertake health assessments, plan community alcohol detoxes with the SU, Recovery Worker (RC) and the SU social support person and social network, administer medication and treatments, perform diagnostic tests as appropriate and to provide and evaluate a range of health interventions to identify any unmet healthcare needs and to take account of other health problems that could interact with substance misuse treatment.

The post holder will be required to work flexibly across the service to provide responsive, evidence based interventions working alongside other professionals and stakeholders.

Demonstrate SMS knowledge and communication skills to improve role and promote service in positive light.

Safeguarding appropriate to the role.

Main duties of the job

To Promote and support community alcohol detoxification programs, improve service KPI.

Enhance the service user experience and safety.

Share knowledge of harm reduction advice on effects of alcohol and substances on the body in a manor understandable by service users and none registered professionals.

Working for our organisation

BE THE DIFFERENCE IN HEALTHCARE

Join our team

We’re looking for passionate individuals to join our diverse and innovative team.

Whether you are starting out in your healthcare journey or are an experienced healthcare professional looking for a new challenge we’ve got a role for you!

• Access to NHS Pension
• Annual leave on your Birthday
• Refer a friend scheme
• Training and Development opportunities
• Flexible Working
• Access to Employee Assistance and Health and Wellbeing programmes
• Up to 33 days annual leave

We have an ambition to become a truly lived experience inclusive employer, changing how we approach staff experience and value personal stories our colleagues bring with them.

We welcome applications from everyone, including applicants with lived experience, those who belong to LGBTQIA+ Community and are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (or questioning), Intersex and Asexual, people with a disability, neurodivergent applicants and people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds.

Spectrum Community Health CIC provides a range of award-winning healthcare services on behalf of the NHS, Local Authority Public Health services, and other partners across substance misuse, sexual health, and health and justice settings. As a not-for-profit social enterprise and Community Interest Company our focus is centred on people – our patients, service users, staff and partners.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Maintaining patient records, contributing to care plans and medication records on the electronic patient record in line with NHS Information governance standards.
• Providing appropriate clinical information and assessment to support service users (SU) in treatment.
• Communicate pharmacological information in a manor that SU and none registered staff will understand and be able to support prescribed regimes.
• Provide information as appropriate to support the service in its work with primary care
• Work collaboratively with Humankind staff to deliver a fuller recovery package for SU and enable progression in treatment and detoxes both alcohol and opiate.
• Participate in service audits, both local and national and to provide accurate information.
• Support SU to identify any unmet healthcare needs and to take account of other health problems that could interact with drug treatment
• Support patients and exercise positive relationships within professional boundaries as part of a purposeful and caring regime
• Adhere to Spectrums information sharing policies and those of the partnership when dealing with requests for potentially sensitive information
• To actively participate in individual and/or group clinical supervision

1. Analytical Data and Information

• Respond effectively to emergency situations which require a rapid nursing response analysing the SU, immediate risks and management strategies required
• Systematic assessment and screening of SUs
• Analysing outcome from assessments to provide judgement on clinical problems which require further investigation, treatment or referral and develop appropriate treatment plans with SU.
• Assess and manage a SU who expresses suicidal ideation, liaising and referring to appropriate services to support the SU and establish protecting factors
• Determining when to seek advice from senior clinical or management staff.
• Determining appropriate response to crisis situations and acting accordingly.
• Manage competing priorities and react to unforeseen circumstances, incidents, and emergency situations.
• Engaging support/intervention from other professional or agencies.
• Work within a demanding and high emotion environment with challenging patients which requires compassion and empathy

· Participate in audits both local and Spectrum specific and NHS data collection activity.

2. Planning and Organisational Work

• Plan, organise and carry out allocated tasks/ activities.
• Organise own time and may organise that of junior staff and learners.
• To balance SU related and professional demands, and ensure that these remain in accordance with those of the service as a whole.
• To attend relevant meetings and participate in discussions concerning the running of the service and management of SUs.
• Deliver training to SUs to empower them to self-manage their chronic disease.

· Deliver training to Humankind staff as required to enhance their substance misuse knowledge.

• To deliver high quality care and intervention to SUs by demonstrating up to date evidence based practice
• To ensure SUs medication is administered in accordance with risk assessment and policy
• Develop detox plans with the SU inline with their assessment needs using the monitoring tools of the service for e.g. SADQ, CIWA, AUDIT and observational assessment.
• Deliver programmes of care for individual SU that meet their needs
• Assess, Plan, implement and evaluate episodes of care for all SUs.
• To be involved in multi-disciplinary and inter-agency care planning to support seamless care provision for those identified with complex health needs. This also includes carers or significant others as necessary or required.
• To be involved in the multi-disciplinary and inter-agency liaison to support and/or facilitate assessments as part of the agreed care-pathway.
• To attend all clinical meetings or multi-disciplinary meetings at the request of the Clinical Lead.
• To work effectively as a member of the partnership multi-disciplinary team.
• To support the coordination of the primary care, mental health and substance misuse services for the SU to empower their recovery
• To liaise with primary care, mental health and A&E services for allocated patients.
• Empowering SUs to take responsibility for their own medication administration as directed, health, wellbeing, recovery and future lifestyle.
• To conform to NMC professional codes of conduct thus safeguarding the interests and wellbeing of SU.
• Maintain accurate up-to-date clinical records and care plans in accordance with NMC standards for records and record keeping, ensuring compliance with the Data Protection Act and the Freedom of Information Act.
• Provide clinical input to the multi-disciplinary referral allocation, assessment and post assessment decision making to ensure accurate, effective and sensitive feedback to all referring agencies.
• Attain and maintain clinical competencies required for effective care and treatment of SUs within the substance misuse service
• Provide support to primary care in conjunction with alcohol detoxification in the community, offering advice and monitoring of withdrawal symptoms using service tools
• Support alcohol and opiate detox preparation, for both SU and associated professionals.
• Support SU through domiciliary visits to complete alcohol detoxes, offering symptom review and recording signs on Spectrum clinical system to enable prescriber to make decisions about future care or reviews.
• Signpost SU to secondary, acute and primary care services to meet their Long term conditions or acute needs.
• Promote adherence to recovery plans for substance misuse and their primary care plans for existing conditions.

4. Policy and Service Development.

· To support managers to develop effective pathways and audits

· Manage own pathways to support better delivery and SU outcomes for the patient

• To be responsible for equipment used in carrying out clinical duties, and to adhere to departmental policy, including competence to use equipment.

· Support Spectrums SAVE cost improvement programme, working efficiently and effectively; alerting managers to potential cost savings

6. People Management and Development

· mentoring nurse associates, offering professional support to none qualified staff within the service.

· Willing to develop own skills and progress inline with service need.

7. Continuous Professional Development

• Participate in the induction all new nursing and health care support staff into the team. Supervise junior staff and learners in all areas of nursing practise and revalidation
• Responsible for own clinical supervision.
• To ensure compliance with NMC CPD requirements for successful revalidation

· Undertakes statutory and mandatory training in line with Spectrum policies.

8. Information Resources

· Keep contemporaneous notes on the digital service system and any other required system to support Data capture and safe note keeping for patient safety.

9. Research and Development

· Assist and participate with research department as requested and raise any potential research opportunities if available

10. Freedom to Act and Autonomy

· Act autonomously within NMC and Spectrums code of practice, manage own work load and work within lone working policy. Liaise with service manager to notify work plan

Person specification

registration

• RGN, RMN,
• experience
• NMP

shortlisting

• RGN RMN
• driver, access to own car
• alcohol knowledge

knowlage of substance misuse

• experience of qualification in substance misuse
• knowledge of alcohol use and community detox
• applying safe community alcohol detox within a community setting
• independent prescriber
• experience of using Theseus clinical system

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.