Clinical Nurse Specialist inLondon inLondon PUBLISHED 29 OCT 2024

Band 6: £44,806 to £53,134 a year per annum inclusive of HCAS  PERMANENT  GOOD SALARY 

The focus of the role will be that of individual assessment, intervention and evaluation of treatment, delivered within the framework of NICE guidelines.

The post holder would be working as a member of a Multidisciplinary Team in The Better Lives Substance Misuse Service in Islington with a focus on supporting people into treatment and improving substance misuse and health outcomes.

Better Lives is the lead provider in service made up of C&I NHS and third sector substance misuse agency Human Kind. There is a varied workforce including medical and clinical practitioners, psychologists, recovery practitioners, administrative, data teams and peer mentors. They will be responsible for providing individual assessment, identifying clinical interventions and direct care to service users who will have mental and physical health needs. The post holder would be expected to work across the different Better Lives sites in Islington. Primarily the post will be based at Seven Sisters Road.

The focus of the role will be that of individual assessment, intervention and evaluation of treatment, delivered within the framework of NICE guidelines. Incorporating evidence based best practice and maximising service user's recovery and re-enablement, whilst ensuring that the service adapts to the demographic needs of our service users.

They will be responsible for a defined caseload and they will formulate appropriate specific, highly specialist care and treatment plans; providing highly skilled and specialist interventions and care to service users with complex mental and physical health problems.

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To be responsible for providing expert care in an area of designated expertise, in accordance with NMC code of professional conduct

To provide expert, autonomous and highly specialist clinical practice within a multi disciplinary team to include:-

To be able to demonstrate and explain clinical reasoning in relation to professional input to a service users care plan when required to members of the team, trainees or others external to the organisation

To recognise and respond appropriately to challenging behaviour in line with Trust policies.



To adhere to all Trust policies and procedures and requirements of professional registration such as the NMC.

The post holder would be working as a member of a Multidisciplinary Team in The Better Lives Substance Misuse Service in Islington with a focus on supporting people into treatment and improving substance misuse and health outcomes.

Better Lives is the lead provider in service made up of C&I NHS and third sector substance misuse agency Human Kind. There is a varied workforce including medical and clinical practitioners, psychologists, recovery practitioners, administrative, data teams and peer mentors. They will be responsible for providing individual assessment, identifying clinical interventions and direct care to service users who will have mental and physical health needs. The post holder would be expected to work across the different Better Lives sites in Islington. Primarily the post will be based at Seven Sisters Road.

The focus of the role will be that of individual assessment, intervention and evaluation of treatment, delivered within the framework of NICE guidelines. Incorporating evidence based best practice and maximising service user's recovery and re-enablement, whilst ensuring that the service adapts to the demographic needs of our service users.

They will be responsible for a defined caseload and they will formulate appropriate specific, highly specialist care and treatment plans; providing highly skilled and specialist interventions and care to service users with complex mental and physical health problems.

About us

To be responsible for providing expert care in an area of designated expertise, in accordance with NMC code of professional conduct

To provide expert, autonomous and highly specialist clinical practice within a multi disciplinary team to include:-

To be able to demonstrate and explain clinical reasoning in relation to professional input to a service users care plan when required to members of the team, trainees or others external to the organisation

To recognise and respond appropriately to challenging behaviour in line with Trust policies.



To adhere to all Trust policies and procedures and requirements of professional registration such as the NMC.



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