Substance Misuse Nurse - Band 5 - HMP Send and Coldingley

Forward Trust; Woking; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 36,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Training and development opportunities

Cycle to work scheme

25 days annual leave

Contributory pension scheme

Employee wellbeing initiatives

Job summary

The Forward Trust is recruiting a Band 5 Substance Misuse Nurse for HMP Send and Coldingley. You will deliver nurse-led clinical and psychosocial interventions to individuals with substance misuse issues in a prison environment, developing personalised care plans and monitoring treatments.

You will work within a multidisciplinary team, promote health, maintain records, and comply with safeguarding and security vetting. A commitment to reducing harm and improving wellbeing is essential.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with a valid NMC PIN.
• Minimum of one year post-registration experience.
• Experience or keen interest in substance misuse nursing.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Experience in a prison or secure healthcare setting.
• Knowledge of substance misuse treatment protocols and harm reduction strategies.
• Additional qualifications or training in substance misuse or mental health nursing.

Responsibilities

• Clinical Assessment & Care Planning: Conduct comprehensive assessments and develop personalised care plans.
• Treatment Delivery: Administer and monitor prescribed treatments, including MAT, following guidelines.
• Multidisciplinary Collaboration: Work with healthcare professionals, prison staff and external agencies.
• Health Promotion & Education: Deliver health education and advice to promote recovery.
• Record Keeping & Reporting: Maintain accurate patient records in line with standards.
• Safeguarding & Risk Management: Identify and address safeguarding concerns and risks.

Skills

NMC PIN

Substance misuse nursing

Prison healthcare experience

Communication skills

Education

NMC registration as Nurse

Job description

Substance Misuse Nurse - Band 5 - HMP Send and Coldingley

• Substance Misuse Nurse - Band 5 - HMP Send and Coldingley

About The Role

We are currently recruiting for a Substance Misuse Service - Band 5, based at HMP Send and Coldingley

Here at Forward Trust, we deliver a complex range of drug and alcohol services in the unique prison environment. Our support includes providing advice, health and wellbeing, motivational work, clinical services, and a wider range of group work and treatment programmes.

The Forward Trust services which are delivered within prison settings are commissioned by NHS England and are delivered in partnership with primary healthcare providers and HMPPS. Integration and partnership are integral to the work we do.

We believe that everyone can live a fulfilling life, whatever their past. Our work in prisons aims to support those affected by drug or alcohol issues to create lasting change and reduce dependency, homelessness, unemployment, and re-offending.

Role / Team overview

As a Band 5 Substance Misuse Nurse with The Forward Trust, you will play a pivotal role in delivering high-quality, nurse-led clinical and psychosocial interventions to individuals with substance misuse issues in a prison setting. This dynamic and challenging environment offers the opportunity to utilise and expand your nursing skills while making a tangible impact on the lives of those in your care.

Key responsibilities

• Clinical Assessment & Care Planning : Conduct comprehensive assessments of individuals with substance misuse issues, developing and implementing personalised care plans.
• Treatment Delivery : Administer and monitor prescribed treatments, including medication-assisted therapies, ensuring adherence to clinical guidelines.
• Multidisciplinary Collaboration : Work closely with a multidisciplinary team, including healthcare professionals, prison staff, and external agencies, to provide holistic care.
• Health Promotion & Education : Deliver health education and advice to service users, promoting recovery and well-being.
• Record Keeping & Reporting : Maintain accurate and up-to-date patient records, ensuring compliance with legal and professional standards.
• Safeguarding & Risk Management : Identify and address safeguarding concerns, implementing appropriate risk management strategies.

All prison-based roles will require enhanced DBS and HMPPS security vetting. Please note this process can take up to 8-12 weeks. All offers are subject to receiving both HMPPS vetting and DBS clearances.

Checks will require you to provide information on the below:

• Yourself (personal information, financial information, police information, criminal history)
• Your family (parents, parents’ partners, siblings, partner(s), children)
• Co-residents
• Associations that may cause a conflict of interest with your role or the prison service.
• Background checks across police information systems on you, your family and other associates
• Credit reference checks
• Social media and Open-Source checks (these are checks on content about you that is publicly available on the internet to ensure there is nothing linked to you that could undermine public trust and confidence in the prison service)
• Other government and overseas agency or police checks.

Person Specification

• Registered Nurse (RN) with a valid NMC PIN.
• Minimum of one year post-registration experience.
• Experience or a keen interest in substance misuse nursing.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a team.
• Experience in a prison or secure healthcare setting.
• Knowledge of substance misuse treatment protocols and harm reduction strategies.
• Additional qualifications or training in substance misuse or mental health nursing.

Please note unfortunately we cannot offer any kind of Sponsorship or Visa with this role.

About Us

We are The Forward Trust, the social enterprise with charitable status that empowers people to break the often interlinked cycles of crime and addiction to move forward with their lives. For more than 25 years we have been working with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past. We believe that anyone is capable of lasting change. Our services have supported thousands of people to make positive changes and build productive lives with a job, family, friends and a sense of community.

We are committed to our cause and the work we carry out as a charity. Equally the wellbeing and the employees who work for us are also important. Joining us an employee, we will offer you the following benefits -

• Training and development opportunities
• Simply Health Cashback Scheme (optional)
• Season Ticket Loan Scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Crisis Loan Scheme
• Electric Car Scheme
• 3 x Wellbeing Days (pro rata'd for part time employees)
• Access to Blue Light Card
• 25 days (rising to 30 with length of service) Annual Leave plus Bank Holidays
• Contributory Pension Scheme – Employer matched contributions of up to 6% in the first two years’ service and up to 9% thereafter
• Death in Service Payment (2x annual salary)
• Critical Illness Insurance (subject to qualifying criteria)

Diversity at Forward Trust

The Forward Trust commits to providing opportunities to everyone. We want to ensure we have a diverse team with a range of lived and professional experiences. This includes those with ‘Lived Experience’ of addiction, offending, or homelessness.

When we recruit, we welcome applications from everyone. This is inclusive of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion and/or belief, marriage and civil partnerships, pregnancy and maternity and socio-economic background. Where operationally possible, we will consider flexible working requests and make reasonable adjustments for all roles.

To find out more about Forward’s commitment to being an inclusive employer and our current EDI strategy click here .

Employee Screening and Eligibility to Work

We recognise the importance of safeguarding, dependent on role you may be required to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Service Check, details of which will be shared with you at interview.

If successful in your application, you will be required to provide eligibility to work evidence in line with the ‘Eligibility to Work in the UK’ requirements.