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

Spectrum Community Health CIC; North East; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in North East England seeks a Nurse Team Leader to manage and provide leadership for the clinical team at the Centre for Change. This role involves promoting service development, providing governance, and ensuring quality care delivery. The ideal candidate will have strong leadership skills and a passion for healthcare. Flexible working and a supportive environment are offered.

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

• Experience in a clinical leadership role within healthcare.
• Knowledge of substance misuse and harm reduction principles.
• Ability to lead a multidisciplinary team effectively.

Responsibilities

• Deliver leadership and management responsibilities for the clinical team.
• Provide clinical supervision and lead MDT.
• Promote engagement with OST or alcohol treatments.

Skills

Leadership

Clinical supervision

Prescribing

Engagement with alcohol treatments

Job description

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.


• 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.

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
• 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

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 Thursday 24 Jul 2025