Substance Misuse Nurse Team Leader - County Durham Drug and Alcohol | Spectrum Community Health CIC

Spectrum Community Health CIC; North East; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare social enterprise is seeking a Nurse Team Leader for the Centre for Change Drug and Alcohol Centre. The role involves leadership, clinical supervision, and enhancing service delivery within clinical teams. Applicants should have a nursing qualification and experience in managing healthcare services. The position offers a range of benefits including NHS pension, flexible working, and training opportunities.

Benefits

Access to NHS Pension

Annual leave on your Birthday

Training and Development opportunities

Flexible Working

Employee Assistance and Health and Wellbeing programmes

Up to 33 days annual leave

Qualifications

• Proven experience in managing clinical teams and providing supervision.
• Knowledge of prescribing and medication management.
• Strong communication skills with various stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Deliver leadership and management responsibilities for the clinical team.
• Provide clinical supervision and lead MDTs across the service.
• Enhance service delivery between acute and community services.

Skills

Leadership in clinical settings

Clinical governance

Clinical supervision

Knowledge of substance misuse and harm reduction

Education

Nursing qualification

Job description

Overview

Spectrum are looking for a Nurse Team Leader based at the Centre for Change Drug and Alcohol Centre. The post holder will deliver leadership and management responsibilities for the clinical team. The post holder will provide clinical supervision and lead MDT to all parts of the service, provide prescribing sessions as needed by service, promote KIP compliance and drive service development to enhance every contact counts approach, encouraging clinical staff to maintain nursing skills as well as prescribing skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide governance to the C4C centre and management roles for clinical team
• Promote flexible working approach to grow every contact counts
• Provide professional advice to colleagues within the acute services.
• Promote engagement with OST or alcohol treatments
• Enhance delivery of community detox options
• Promote after care medications and engagement with aftercare medications
• Liaise between acute and community service to enhance service delivery
• Promote alcohol knowledge and harm reduction with service users and professionals
• Community detox preparation and engagement, with support from acute and community services.

Benefits and Opportunities

• Access to NHS Pension
• Annual leave on your Birthday
• Welcome payment for some posts
• 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

About Spectrum

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.

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, people with a disability, neurodivergent applicants and people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds.

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for further details on the advertised role.

This advert closes on Sunday 12 Oct 2025