Overview
Do you want to make a difference? Do you want to work in an environment where you can use your clinical skills and your creativity to achieve the best for people?
Here is your opportunity to be part of the nursing team and support our multidisciplinary team.
Our teams are multi-disciplinary, they consist of a service manager, consultant psychiatrists, doctors, nurses, health care assistants, recovery staff, volunteers, administrators, and peer mentors, all focused on bringing the individuals using our services the best possible support & interventions.
Our Nurses play an integral part in Change Grow Lives mission to help people change the direction of their lives, to grow as individuals, and live life to its full potential. Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team, you would offer specialist clinical interventions to people who use our services. This is an excellent opportunity for an energetic and passionate Substance Misuse Nurse to help shape our vision in how we provide clinical services to individuals whose lives have been affected by drugs and alcohol.
Where: Swindon
Hours: 37.5 per week
Salary £36,635.38 - 42,743.47 pro rata(depending on experience
Contract Type: Permanent
Responsibilities
Responsibilities
The Substance Misuse Nurse role is a varied one, the successful candidate will be an integral member of a multidisciplinary team, offering specialist clinical interventions to people who use our services.
In our services no two days are the same. Every person who comes into our service is treated as an individual, so understanding the importance of a whole person approach along with being curious, a good listener, a clinically robust practitioner and having a flexible approach are essential skills.
Your role includes:
1. Undertaking physical and mental health assessments for people who access our services
2. Being involved in opiate and alcohol interventions
3. Leading on harm reduction interventions
We want to support you to recognise and achieve your goals:
4. We hold regular national nurse and HCA forums, and you will have regular 1:1s and appraisals
5. We actively support our nurses with revalidation with protected continuing professional development time, which totals up to 6 days per year.
6. We also have a wide range of educational opportunities including free access to the RCNi learning platform and revalidation portfolio and we pay for your NMC fee.
7. We offer you the opportunity to use the government backed Apprenticeship Levy fund to develop nursing practice in line with your specific role.
8. All our team members are encouraged to take a wellbeing hour every week and access personal well-being resources.
9. Our nursing pay is competitive with the NHS Agenda for Change pay bands.
We always keep the people who use our services at the heart of everything we do, and we are committed to the active involvement of service users in their care and service delivery.
Does this sound like you?
If so, please read the job description and we look forward to reading your application soon.