Ready to take your nursing career to the next level? At Waythrough, our Recovery Steps service is rated Outstanding by the CQC and were looking for a passionate Health and Wellbeing Nurse to join our dynamic team!About the roleIn this role, youll be pivotal in developing and delivering best-in-class clinical care that supports individuals on their journey to recovery from substance misuse. Supported by a multidisciplinary clinical department, youll have access to:
* Regular clinical supervision and appraisals
* Support with revalidation
* Generous CPD time & annual leave
Please note: this role involves travel across different sites within the region.
Main duties of the job
Are you a registered general or psychiatric nurse eager to make a positive impact in substance misuse care? Experience in this field is greatbut what really counts is your dedication and clinical skills! We are looking for a candidate who possesses the following attributes:
* Registered Nurse: You are a dedicated and registered nurse, either as a general nurse or psychiatric nurse, with the qualifications and commitment to provide exceptional care.
* Clinical Expertise: You have experience in assessing clients to meet healthcare, clinical, and psychosocial needs, including addressing issues related to Blood-Borne Viruses (BBV). Your clinical knowledge is a foundation for providing high-quality care.
* Health Promotion and Harm Reduction: You bring experience in health promotion and harm reduction interventions. Your ability to provide advice and information plays a crucial role in supporting individuals on their journey to recovery.
Why join us?Because here, your expertise isnt just valued it drives real, lasting change. Join a team where your skills shape compassionate care, innovation, and recovery every day.
About us
Waythrough (formerly Humankind) is an equal opportunities employer
We value unique perspectives and experiences that everyone can bring, and fully understand the strength in diversity and inclusion. We encourage applications from all backgrounds, regardless of race, gender, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, or disability. If you have a genuine passion for working for us, we want to hear for you. We also welcome applications from people with lived experience with substance use. If you require support with your application, please contact the Recruitment Team at people.recruitment@waythrough.org.uk
Job responsibilities
Workplace values
The post holder will be expected to live our workplace values which are:
Honest: we are open and realistic, building trusted relationships in which we challenge,collaborate and change.
Committed: we are passionate about being the best that we can be, and we do this bykeeping people at the heart of everything that we do.
Inventive: we are ambitious, drawing together skills and resources to innovate and adapt indetermined pursuit of our mission.
Job Purpose
To support the clinical team in the service and delivery of direct service user care.
Key accountabilities:
1.To provide alcohol assessments, community detoxifications and referrals to in- patient orother support networks including mutual aid.
2.To develop onsite service community alcohol detoxifications, working alongside operationalcolleagues.
3.To work with hospitals in providing a managed pathway for people with alcohol misuse,through appropriate referral process or direct referral.
4.To provide healthcare assessment across services but specifically in needle exchanges andoutreach services.
5.Provide a BBV service that incorporates screening and vaccination for Hepatitis B, HepatitisC screening, re-screening and treatment provision in partnership with specialist services.
6.Co-ordinate and deliver call and recall services for Hepatitis B & Hepatitis A Immunisations,Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C and HIV Testing.
7.Along with the wider teams work to promote harm reduction across needle exchanges,outreach services. hostels and other venues.
8.Develop smoking cessation strategies and work with specialist services in developing aCOPD pathway and onsite treatment provision, including liaising with prescribingclinician/issuing medication under PGD if service is required.
9.Deliver basic wound management and work with specialist services in delivering morecomplex treatment provision to service users.
10. To promote and deliver naloxone across services.
11.Deliver health promotion and harm reduction interventions in a client-centred manner (e.g.safer sex, contraception, nutrition and healthy living).
12.Promote infection control and harm reduction messages in relation to injecting behaviour andsharing of equipment specific to reducing BBV and bacterial infections.
13.In relation to the nursing role, review service consistency against external strategies,policies, guidelines and targets and co-ordinate service review as appropriate.
14.Provide data for planning and participate in; strategy planning, service needs assessment,clinical effectiveness review, service framework development and implementation, asneeded.
15.Participate in external and internal sub groups and take responsibility for production orcoproduction of plans and reports, as requested.
16.Provide support and assistance to other Humanknd substance misuse services duringmobilisation
17.Participate in the audit process and promote service wide or local clinical audit. Implementfindings/changes where indicated.
18.Ensure all serious incidents (including deaths in service) are reported, implementing anyservice changes arising.
19.Contribute to teaching events as part of any consultancy initiatives and to in-house trainingand teaching.
20. Collaborate on clinical governance, review and implementation of policies and guidelines.
21. Assist continued involvement with national and local research projects, as appropriate.
22. Contribute to the development of joint working with local provider organisations.
23.Participate in the co-ordination of strategies for integration of health and social care, asappropriate.
24.Contribute to the maintenance of service user databases by recording accurate, up to datenotes in accordance with service protocol and NMC guidance.
25.Undertake continuing professional development including participating in clinicalsupervision, performance appraisals and attending training as/when required .
26.Work in accordance with all relevant legislation, best practice policies & procedures andguidelines both internal and external. This includes Humankinds clinicalgovernance policy.
27.Keep abreast of policy and professional development within your area of professionalexpertise.
28.To promote, adhere to and live our workplace values of being honest, committed andinventive.
Person Specification
Experience
* Experience of assessing clients healthcare needs and best practice to meet healthcare, clinical and psychosocial need.
* Experience of generation and implementation of initiatives.
* Awareness of social context of drug misuse and the wider implications of the behaviour.
* Understanding of drug misuse services available in the public and voluntary services.
* Experience of carrying out general health care assessment including BBV, and delivering health promotion/ harm reduction interventions, advice and information.
* Awareness of national strategies impacting on drug and alcohol services
* Understanding of complexities of primary health care and the constrictions and opportunities inherent in the primary care sector.
* Understanding of the differences between the private and the public sector roles and responsibilities.
* Experience of working with audits/ awareness of the principles of audit.
* Experience of working with substance misusing clients.
Qualifications
* NMC Qualification
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.
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