Are you a skilled and compassionate nurse with experience in substance misuse and mental health? JoinTeam NHFTas aSenior Substance Misuse Nurseand help deliver high-quality, trauma-informed care to residents atHMP Lowdham Grange.
AtNorthamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (NHFT), we’re proud to be ratedOutstandingby the CQC. We’re committed to innovation, inclusivity, and making a real difference in the lives of our patients and staff.
Why Join NHFT?
* Annual Leave: 27 days + 8 bank holidays (rising with service)
* Inclusive and supportive team culture
Main duties of the job
About the Role
As a key member of the Substance Misuse Service, you’ll lead on mental health assessments and care for residents with dual diagnosis needs. You’ll work autonomously, managing your own caseload, and collaborate closely with the prison’s mental health team, psychosocial services, and wider healthcare colleagues.
Your responsibilities will include:
* Delivering specialist clinical and mental health interventions
* Conducting comprehensive assessments and risk evaluations
* Administering medication and opioid substitution therapy
* Supporting service development and continuous improvement
* Supervising junior staff and contributing to team leadership
* Promoting trauma-informed care and health education
Working for our organisation
NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools.We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.
NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be ‘outstanding’ by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.
Be Part of Something Bigger
If you’re ready to lead with compassion and make a lasting impact in a unique healthcare setting, we’d love to hear from you.
Apply today and help shape the future of substance misuse care in secure services.
Learn more about us atwww.nhft.nhs.ukor bit.ly/24hoursinNHFT
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the ‘About You’ Section of the document.
Person specification
Qualifications
* • RMN qualification with post-graduate education or equivalent experience
* • RCGP Level 1 (or working towards) in Substance Misuse
Skills
* • Strong assessment, caseload management, and communication skills
* • Ability to work independently and within a multidisciplinary team
* • IT literacy and familiarity with clinical systems (e.g. SystmOne)
Experience
* • Experience in substance misuse and mental health care
* • Experience in prison or secure settings
By completing an application you are giving authorisation for the transfer of your data. In submitting an application form, you authorise us to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR) Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process. Including factual reference, occupational health clearance and statutory and mandatory training records and full service history.
You must ensure that your application, including supporting statements and behaviour examples, are truthful and factually accurate. Please note plagiarism can include presenting the ideas and experience of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own.
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Please submit your application as soon as possible; due to the high volumes of applications we receive we reserve the right to close any adverts before the closing date once we have received sufficient applications.
We are an equal opportunities employer, which aims to employ a workforce that reflects the diverse communities we serve. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons from all backgrounds.
All roles are subject to the home office immigration rules and therefore eligibility must meet certain requirements for any sponsorship to be considered. Please visit the government website for more information regarding eligibility,
At NHFT we support many of our colleagues to work flexibly and we will consider requests for flexible working from day one. For this role, we are open to discussing a range of options including flexible hours, agile/home working, compressed hours and part time hours. Please have a conversation with the recruiting manager about the flexibility you need and we will promise to explore what is possible with you.
Applicants who have a disability and meet the essential criteria for the job will be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme. If you require a reasonable adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process please make the recruitment services team aware as soon as possible.
All posts that are engaged in a regulated activity will be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and a DBS re-check on a three yearly basis whilst employed in such a role. Staff employed in these posts will therefore be asked to register with the DBS Automatic Update Service upon receipt of their DBS certificate and must update yearly, the annual fee will be reimbursed subject to Trust policy. For further information please visit: DBS Update Service: applicant guide - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Please note if a DBS is applicable for the position then a charge will be deducted from your first salary or upfront cost if a staff bank position.
Please note that all new starters to the trustare subject to a probationary period.
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You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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