Nurse Independent Prescriber

NHS; Bishop Auckland; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a Substance Misuse Prescribing Nurse. In this role, you will provide essential support in managing withdrawal treatment and promote recovery for service users. The ideal candidate will possess an NMP qualification and have experience in substance misuse and community working. Join a passionate team contributing to transformative healthcare services.

Benefits

Access to NHS Pension

Annual leave on your Birthday

Refer a friend scheme

Training and Development opportunities

Flexible Working

Access to Employee Assistance programs

Up to 33 days annual leave

Qualifications

• Minimum 18 months experience in substance misuse.
• Knowledge of community working and patient centred care.

Responsibilities

• Provide substitute prescribing for dependency and recovery.
• Conduct health and wellbeing assessments.
• Promote engagement with treatment plans.

Skills

Substance misuse knowledge

Community working experience

Patient centred care

Education

NMP Qualification

Driver's license

Job description

Substance misuse prescribing nurse, providing access to medications that both manage withdrawal from substances of abuse and offer Detox in clinical setting or domiciliary setting.

Encourage Service Users to work towards recovery whilst maintaining stability.

Promote engagement with treatment plans and offer access to treatment promoting an every contact counts approach.

Provide management support for lower grades, supervision and appraisal.

Encourage long term condition compliance.

Main duties of the job

• Providing substitute prescribing for dependency and recovery
• Relapse prevention prescribing
• Community detoxes
• BBV testing and vaccination
• Health and wellbeing assessments and promotion of long term conditions
• Promotion of recovery

About us

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.

Job responsibilities

Please see the job description attached and the personal specification for full outline of main roles and responsibilities.

Flexable working and willingness to meet service need with a solution focused approach is Key, ensuring that the client is at the centre of treatment.

Person Specification

Qualifications and Knowladge

• NMP Qualification and 18 month post
• Driver, has own car

Experience

• Substance misuse experience and knowledge

Community working

• experience of community working
• patient centred care

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.