Alcohol Specialist Nurse - Supportive Outreach Team

You must have a valid full UK driving licence and full access to a car (Monday - Friday) which is insured for the purposes of work, to be eligible to take up this post.

Supportive Outreach and Engagement Worker (Alcohol Care Teams)

A new opportunity has arisen to join the MFT Alcohol Care Team (ACT). This is an exciting time to join the team, as it expands and develops within the hospitals and the wider trust.

The Supportive Outreach and Engagement Worker position has been created to support individuals accessing secondary emergency care services, providing a wider, holistic, and multi-agency approach to case management.

Facilitating integrated alcohol care between secondary, primary, and community services for acute alcohol frequent hospital attendees.

This role will be primarily community-based; however, you may at times be requested to work at one of the 3 Alcohol Care Team locations - Manchester Royal Infirmary, Wythenshawe Hospital, or North Manchester General Hospital.

The focus of the role would be working with high intensity users of the trust, who present to the Emergency Departments or are admitted in relation to alcohol misuse. Ensuring effective implementation of care pathways and being the interface between community substance misuse services and the Alcohol Care Teams. Providing the extension of care beyond discharge, to support individuals who may be resistant to services, hard to engage, or treatment naïve at the point of discharge. The post holder will attempt to re-engage individuals who have dropped out of treatment or detached from services.

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’ that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits, and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.8bn and is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Lucy Mullany Job title: Lead Nurse Email address: lucy.mullany@mft.nhs.uk Telephone number: 01612914309.

Please contact: Tessa T A Manjuran: Service Lead Alcohol Care Teams, MFT, tessa.manjuran@mft.nhs.uk, 07833992198.