Non-Medical Prescriber Nurse (NMP) - Herefordshire
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As a community based Non-Medical Prescriber (NMP) or Pharmacist Prescriber at our Herefordshire Recovery Service, you’ll make a real difference by empowering and enabling people to change. Passionate about people, you’ll receive support to enhance your own life too, as you make the role your own in a friendly, multidisciplinary team.
Our integrated community drug and alcohol service offers support to individuals across Herefordshire in the West Midlands. You will work within a busy prescribing service under the supervision of our Clinical Services Manager and Clinical Lead, alongside our Clinical Team, Team Leaders, specialist Recovery Workers and Volunteers to improve the wellbeing of a wide range of individuals.
As a Non-Medical Prescriber (NMP) or Pharmacist Prescriber, you will be involved with opiate substitute treatment (OST) interventions, benzodiazepine reductions, alcohol and opiate detoxifications and relapse prevention medications. You will also provide support for health care assessments, administering detoxification medication for clients, administering IM thiamine, completing alcohol and opiate detoxification assessments, providing Blood Borne Virus (BBV) screening and vaccinations and will work closely with mental health, physical health and social care services. This role will lead on the prescribing of Injectable buprenorphine throughout the country of Herefordshire.
Main duties of the job
You will attend a local prescribers meeting, one-to-one clinical supervision and national prescriber/clinician meetings which will also support your learning and continuous professional development. Full training and supervision is provided from our Clinical Services Manager and Clinical Lead. You will have a real opportunity to help shape service delivery and contribute to delivering clinically excellent services.
As an employee you will have access to RCNi to assist with revalidation, indemnity insurance and support from the Clinical Lead, Clinical Services Manager, Turning Points Head of Nursing and Head of Medicines Optimisation and Pharmacy Services.
Benefits
You will get 33 days paid holiday a year, increasing with each year of service up to 35 days. Plus the option to buy additional holidays and spread the cost.
We offer a total reward package that includes flexible working, recognition and celebration, and opportunities to boost your career.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Pay
Depending on experience£48,732 with annual pay progression up to £54,579 pro rata.
Person Specification
Experience
* We are seeking a qualified Non-Medical Prescriber Nurse (NMP) or Pharmacist Prescriber that will join our established team. You will need to be an excellent communicator, you'll have the ability to develop support packages that are creative, flexible and tailored to the needs of each individual. And of course, we're looking for someone who loves talking to people with different needs, is genuinely interested in helping them, and possesses a deep level of empathy, understanding and patience.
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