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This position demands strong communication skills and the ability to work flexibly, including evening hours and across various sites. Emphasis on personal-centered care will require the Nurse to engage with clients and their support networks to facilitate access to essential services, education, and employment opportunities. The role involves significant outreach work, health checks, and emergency response training, as well as contributing to the organisation’s safeguarding policies and maintaining accurate records. Additionally, the position offers in-house training with opportunities for further professional development following a successful probation period.
We are looking for an experienced and enthusiastic candidate to join our team. This is an excellent opportunity to work with people who are affected by offending and substance misuse within a residential rehabilitative environment.
This position requires a Nurse with appropriate and valid registration with the NMC and experience of working with individuals who use alcohol or substances.
Our clients present with complex needs and a multitude of both physical and psychological challenges. We offer excellent in-house training as well as the chance of further courses once the probationary period is completed satisfactorily.
Good communication skills both written and verbal are essential. Confidence to work as part of a multidisciplinary team.
Key role responsibilities include:
- To deliver clinical interventions in community-based hubs.
- Improve healthcare access for service user, BBV testing/treatment, health care assessments and community ambulatory detox and health checks/clinical observations.
- To provide and supervise the delivery of high standards of nursing care to those who use our services in accordance with up-to-date evidence based professional practice and Via policies.
- Deliver general healthcare activity, including Wound Care, ECGs, and other similar activity.
- Undertake basic life support/anaphylaxis training so you are confident and competent to manage a medical emergency including the administration of emergency drugs.
- To support people affected by drug and alcohol use to achieve and sustain their recovery, optimising health, and well-being.
- Being flexible in the hours worked will be expected of the post holder including late evenings.
About us
Role Purpose
To deliver excellent drug and alcohol services to those who use our services and their significant others, including family members friends and carers, to facilitate positive outcomes.
Where indicated, undertake community alcohol detoxification, support Opiate detoxification and titration in the community and refer for specialist inpatient services including liaising with hospital and inpatient unit staff.
Support outreach work across the borough, particularly around alcohol misuse.
Lead on Harm Reduction approaches within the service, including helping to reduce the spread of BBVs via testing and immunisation schemes.
Deliver general healthcare support, including Wound Care, ECGs, healthcare assessments, and other similar activity.
Undertake basic life support and anaphylaxis training so you are confident and competent to manage a medical emergency including the administration of emergency drugs.
Key duties and activities of the roleProvide high quality, person centred, low threshold services, responding to the individual and diverse needs and preferences of people and their significant others.
Deliver evidence-based clinical and psychosocial one-to-one and group interventions as part of an effectively integrated care package. Take an assertive approach to service user disengagement.
Deliver harm reduction advice, guidance and education. To include blood borne virus interventions, incl screening, vaccination and treatment access, and overdose prevention including naloxone programs, health and wellbeing screening brief and facilitated signposting and referral to partner services, including primary care.
Enable people to access education and employment services and health, wellbeing and recovery support activities and to signpost to other available services.
Support students, volunteers, peer mentors and service user representatives to take an active part in Via services.
Identify risks and take appropriate action in accordance with local, national and organisational Safeguarding policies, contributing to multi-disciplinary review meetings.
Maintain accurate and timely records using the designated case management system in compliance with Via Information Governance policies and procedures.
Work flexibly, including across multiple sites and peripatetically when required.
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