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Senior Substance Misuse Nurse: HMP Lowdham Grange

Employer
Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Location
Nottingham
Salary
£33,706 to £40,588 a year per annum (pro rata for part time)
Closing date
3 Oct 2022

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Profession
Nurse
Grade
Band 6
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
This post is eligible for a Golden Hello payment of £2,750 for new starters who are external to the Trust. This is payable in 3 instalments over a 2 year period. This payment is only eligible to new starters who do not already hold a contract of employment with the Trust. This post also includes paid enhancements for unsocial hours working during night, weekends and bank holidays.

To take a lead role in providing the successful and effective delivery of Substance Misuse services in HMP Services Offender Health. To work as a senior substance misuse nurse within a multi-disciplinary team in a prison setting, providing care to patients with complex substance misuse problems, from the point of entry into the prison system to re-entry into the community so that re-offending is reduced, and the health and social functioning of prisoners is improved.

Main duties of the job

To provide high quality patient care through assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating care for people with substance misuse problems working to both harm reduction and health promotion / recovery agendas.

To provide leadership to junior staff by maintaining professional standards, ensuring adherence to all relevant policies and procedures to ensure the delivery of high-quality care

To co-ordinate and lead the provision of psychosocial interventions.

To provide effective substance misuse care services for prisoners, which deliver against required standards, e.g. Key Performance Indicators, Prison Health Performance Quality Indicators and demonstrate value for money, improve the mental health of individuals, enabling the service to compete as provider of choice to local commissioners.

About us

We have a huge variety of opportunities in our expansive Trust covering geographically from South Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire to Leicester, providing mental health inpatient and community services, community health services, forensic mental health services and secure prison healthcare across the East Midlands.

We have more than 100 sites and a huge scope of unique opportunities to develop your career and gain some amazing experiences. We strive to be a great place to work and offer many staff benefits and tailored staff support and wellbeing programmes.

Do you want to make a difference?
Do you believe in Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork?

Then Nottinghamshire Healthcare is the perfect place for you to start, maintain or further your career. Join our team of nearly 9000 who are making a difference every day. We are all about our people - our staff, volunteers, carers, service users and patients. We are NottsHC.

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Job description
Job responsibilities

To co-ordinate and lead the team in the provision of clinical and psychosocial interventions.

To provide guidance and support to junior members of the team regarding standards of care for patients.

To provide advice, guidance and leadership in respect of mental health and concurrent substance misuse needs.To provide clinical and managerial supervision to team members.

To attend and participate in team meetings, helping to promote new ideas, methods and assist in their implementation.

To manage on a daily basis a number of staff including responsibility for:- Appraisals- Supporting the recruitment and retention process- Contribute to the management of sickness absence- Contribute to the learning and development needs of others

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
  • First level registered nurse, RGN or RNMH
  • Significant demonstrable experience within the substance misuse field with evidence of appropriate continued learning

Desirable
  • Certificate/Diploma in Counselling
  • Advanced professional qualifications (RCGP)
  • ENB 998
  • Non Medical Prescribing Course (or willingness to attend)

Experience
Essential
  • Experience of working with and interviewing clients on a 1:1 basis and building good service user relations
  • Experience of close working relationships with a variety of statutory agencies and other external organisations
  • Significant experience of planning and being in charge of a ward/unit

Desirable
  • Experience of working in criminal justice setting
  • Experience of carrying out PADs and supervision

Knowledge
Essential
  • Understanding of current substance misuse related issues
  • Awareness of other issues relevant to healthcare within criminal justice
  • Understanding of relevant Local and National Strategy
  • Knowledge and understanding of the interface across clinical pathways
  • Extensive knowledge of a range of therapeutic approaches to care
  • Knowledge and understanding of risk assessment and implementation
  • Autonomous decision making
  • Experience of clinical leadership

Desirable
  • Awareness of local networks to support the delivery of SMS
  • Understanding of problematic drug misusing issues in offenders

Skills
Essential
  • Excellent patient focussed assessment skills
  • Excellent interpersonal skills
  • Negotiation and mediation skills
  • Leadership skills
  • Excellent written and verbal communication at all levels
  • Ability to engage with and develop a rapport with the client group
  • Ability to participate in and understand multi professional teamwork
  • Ability to establish therapeutic relationships with clients
  • Effective problem solving and decision making skills

Desirable
  • Evidence based therapeutic skills
  • Experience of training delivery
  • Demonstrable project management skills


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