Health & Wellbeing Nurse

Are you a Registered Nurse with a deep commitment to supporting individuals who use substances?

The Role

We are looking to recruit a Registered Nurse with a passion for working with people who use substances. Flexible working to support work-life balance and Via offers a host of great, sector-leading benefits, including payment for professional registration fees.

Main duties of the job

Working with individuals who use alcohol or drugs offers you the opportunity to make a real difference in the lives of individuals who are often some of the most vulnerable and stigmatised people in our communities. No two days are the same, you will work with creative and passionate colleagues focused on supporting people in their recovery journey.

This position requires a Nurse with appropriate and valid registration with the NMC and experience of working with individuals who use alcohol or substances.

About us

We're a charity offering free, confidential support to adults and young people with issues around alcohol dependency and drug use across the UK. We're part of a journey, and everyone's journey is different.

Job responsibilities

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 immunization schemes.

Deliver general healthcare support, including wound care, ECGs, healthcare assessments, and other similar activities.

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 role

Provide 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, e.g. screening, vaccination and treatment access, 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.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registered nurse - RMN, RGN or Learning Disabilities Nurse - with a current active PIN number.

Experience

• Passion for and understanding of working with substance misuse services or with other socially excluded or vulnerable groups. Proven ability to meet deadlines, record information accurately and in a timely way, and to work calmly under pressure.
• Great team working, communication, and interpersonal skills. Demonstrating a highly cooperative approach to supporting colleagues and the whole team to deliver service objectives, as well as in working directly with people and their significant others.
• Demonstrable ability to deliver an excellent quality level of service to people with complex needs. This includes the ability to work with people on a one-to-one basis or to facilitate group sessions, to complete assessments, care and support plans, risk assessments, and to complete case recording to a high standard and in a timely way.
• Good IT skills including use of Microsoft Office programs and digital meeting platforms and Case Management Systems like Nebula, System One or Theseus.
• A demonstrable understanding of the Health and Social Care regulatory requirements of the Care Quality Commission, National Institute for Clinical Excellence standards for Health and Social Care and any other relevant bodies.
• Demonstrable commitment to working in partnership with other professionals such as criminal justice agencies, community groups, and other stakeholders to achieve good outcomes for people.
• The ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, in different settings, e.g. written, spoken, presented, etc. and to different groups of people.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£35,098 to £38,190 a year. You will be paid under Via T&C's, not AfC.