Substance Use Nurse - Casual

Withyou; Boston; On-site; GBP 47,000 - 51,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

28 days annual leave

Birthday off

Enhanced parental leave

Volunteer leave

Pension scheme

Blue Light Card access

Flexible working

Refer a Friend £500 bonus

Job summary

With You invites applications for a Substance Use Nurse at HMP North Sea Camp on a casual basis. You’ll provide nursing care, assess needs, and implement care plans in a secure setting, ensuring high standards and patient advocacy.

Current NMC registration is essential, with experience in community health and substance use services. The role offers sessional hours with weekday (£20.31/hr) and weekend (£25.37/hr) shifts; closing date 25 October 2026.

Qualifications

• Must hold current NMC registration and have post-registration clinical experience.
• Experience delivering nursing interventions in a community setting.
• Ability to carry out comprehensive assessments including risk assessments.
• Knowledge of safe storage, handling and administration of medicines, especially controlled drugs.
• Able to work with diverse groups in various settings and roles.
• Able to assess plans, implement and evaluate care, and respond to untoward changes.
• Able to engage service users with respect and dignity and maintain effective communication.
• Experience in drug and alcohol settings is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Provide health, wellbeing and harm-reduction interventions to service users in line with the service model.
• Deliver high standards of nursing care and assess/plan/evaluate care needs.
• Advocate for patients, identifying physical, psychological, social and spiritual support requirements.
• Work flexibly across settings, promoting health and well-being in a safe, caring environment.

Skills

NMC registration

Community nursing

Risk assessments

Drug handling (controlled drugs)

Assessment of care needs

Communication skills

Drug administration

Drugs/alcohol setting experience

Job description

About the Role

We are looking for a Substance Use Nurse to join our HMP North Sea Camp service on a casual basis.

Our team in HMP North Sea Camp is recruiting for an experienced Substance Use Nurse to join them in providing high quality recovery care to a diverse service user group. If you are an enthusiastic and creative registered Nurse, passionate about changing people’s lives for the better, we’d love to hear from you.

This is a casual role, working sessional hours as and when required. Available shifts will be Monday - Sunday between 07:00 - 09:00 for administering medication. The rate of pay is £20.31 per hour for weekday shifts and £25.37 per hour for weekend shifts.

As a leading charity supporting people with drug, alcohol, and mental health challenges, we operate over 80 services across England and Scotland, providing free and confidential support to more than 100,000 people each year. Find out more about us on our website.

The closing date for applications is 25th October 2026. Please note that this role may close early should sufficient applications be received, so early application is advised.

Job Opportunity

As a Substance Use Nurse, you will provide a range of health and wellbeing and harm reduction interventions to service users in accordance with the agreed model of service delivery. You will deliver high standards of nursing care to those affected by substance use and be responsible for the assessment of care needs, development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care.

You will be an advocate for our patients, working closely with them to identify the physical, psychological, spiritual and social support they need. You will work flexibly providing a high standard of nursing care in a variety of settings, promoting the health and well-being of service users whilst maintaining a safe, caring and therapeutic environment.

Please note that you must have current NMC registration to be considered for this position.

Essential Skills

• Registered Nurse with current NMC registration and post registration clinical experience
• Experience of delivering nursing interventions in a community setting
• Demonstrable experience of comprehensive assessment of need including risk assessments
• Knowledge of safe storage, handling and administration of drugs in particular controlled drugs
• Be able to work constructively with a wide variety of groups and individuals in a range of settings and work roles
• Be able to assess plans, implement and evaluate service user care and act accordingly if untoward changes occurred
• Be able to positive engage service users and treat the with respect and dignity
• Have effective written and communication skills
• Ideally you will have experience of working in a drug and alcohol setting

DE&I

As an organisation, we continue to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports and celebrates the diverse voices and experiences of our staff. We know that representing the communities we serve is key to us meeting our vision of a future where everyone lives a life free from the harm associated with drugs and alcohol. We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring and we encourage people from underrepresented communities and backgrounds to apply to join our team, including people with lived experience, people with disabilities, people from racialised communities, LGBTQ+ people, people of all ages and armed forces veterans.

As part of our commitment to the Armed Forces Covenant we provide a guaranteed interview scheme for candidates that are veterans and meet all the essential criteria for a role. With You is also a Disability Confident Employer and we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for candidates with a disability and meet all the essential criteria for a role.

If you have a disability, a learning difficulty such as dyslexia or a medical condition which you believe may affect your performance during any aspect of our selection process, we’ll be happy to make reasonable adjustments to enable you to perform at your best.

Please note that you will be required to provide 3 years worth of references and where applicable, undergo an enhanced DBS check, to be considered for a role at WithYou.

Internal Applicants - please note that fixed term roles will be offered as secondments.

Benefits

• 28 days annual leave, plus bank holidays
• An extra day off for your birthday or a special occasion of your choice
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• 2 days paid volunteer leave per year
• Auto-enrollment into We Are With You’s pension scheme
• Access to a Blue Light Card - giving you great savings on big high-street and online brands
• Flexible working opportunities and access to a range of services and resources to support you with your wellbeing
• We have an excellent Refer a Friend scheme which offers you a £500 bonus for any recommendations, any role! Our scheme allows you to recommend your friends and family to work with us and earn a £500 bonus payment for every successful referral you make. Please note, the Refer a Friend scheme is only applicable once your recommended friend has been employed for 6 months