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Recovery Nurse or Non-Medical Prescriber (NMP) - Roads to Recovery, Oxford
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Client:
Turning Point
Location:
Oxford, United Kingdom
Job Category:
Other
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EU work permit required:
Yes
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Job Reference:
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Job Views:
2
Posted:
23.05.2025
Expiry Date:
07.07.2025
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Job Description:
Job Introduction
Recovery Nurse – Up to £43,724 DOE
Non-Medical Prescriber Nurse (NMP) – Up to £55,648 DOE
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Recovery Nurse or Non-Medical Prescriber Nurse (NMP) to join Turning Point’s CQC Outstanding rated Substance use Service.
Our Oxfordshire Roads to Recovery Service is an integrated community drug and alcohol service that offers support to individuals across the county. Our Recovery Hubs are based in Oxford, Banbury, Witney and Didcot, we also deliver services within Shared Care GP Practices across the County. You will work within a supportive multi-disciplinary team working with Doctors, Nurses, Clinical Psychologist, Support Workers, Counsellors and Peer Mentors working to improve the well-being of a wide range of service users. We have a large nursing team that is led by our Nurse Manager and we are committed to ongoing professional CPD across our services.
Running health facilities and services on a not–for–profit basis, we invest every penny back into our care – and our people. So, if you’re ambitious and focused on substance use, progress a Nursing career with real value.
Role Responsibility
Working together with a team of Recovery Workers you will prescribe for service users in receipt of opiate substitute medication, manage community alcohol detoxes. As a Recovery Nurse you will deliver wellbeing clinics in the community delivering Blood Bourne Virus testing and vaccination, supporting the management of community detoxifications and other harm reduction and well-being interventions .In addition to running clinics, you will lead a multi-disciplinary meeting with the Recovery Workers within your team providing robust governance and supporting their learning and development. A fortnightly prescribers meeting, 1:1 clinical supervision, access to a National Prescribers and Clinicians meeting and allocated time for continuous professional development will support your learning.
As an employee you will have access to RCNi to assist with revalidation, indemnity insurance and support from the Clinical Operations Manager, Clinical Lead (Consultant Psychiatrist) and Turning Point’s National Chief Pharmacist.
The Ideal Candidate
Full training will be provided and no direct experience of substance use is required but an ability to demonstrate providing effective health interventions with hard to reach cohorts such as homelessness would be advantageous.
Registered with the Nursing & Midwifery Council or a qualified Non-Medical Prescriber Nurse (NMP), you will need to be confident managing of prescribing for opiates and managing alcohol detoxifications within our Nursing Teams.
Further additional information or an informal discussion please contact [emailprotected]
About us
What Benefits Will I Receive?
We know reward looks different to each person and so whether its ways to make your money go further, a culture supporting recognition and celebration, or opportunities to boost your career – we want to support you in every way we can with our total reward package that includes:
* 25 days’ paid holiday a year + Bank Holidays, increasing with each year of service up to 27 days + Bank Holidays. Plus the option to buy additional holidays and spread the cost.
* Join our team and discover the comprehensive benefits we offer by following this link to explore all the exciting perks available to our employees https://jobs.turning-point.co.uk/benefits.html?utm_source=jobad&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=benefits
We reserve the right to close this advert early if we are able to appoint to the vacancy before the advertised closed date.
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