Substance Misuse Service Community Nurse

3 weeks ago


Cardiff, United Kingdom Kaleidoscope Project Full time €33,475 - €35,535

Community Substance Misuse Nurse*
*The post will be required to work across community locations, within dispensing sites and to engage service users in their homes and places that they feel safe and secure to enter treatment and support recovery._
*Hours: *Full time, 37.Includes some weekend working, as per rota. (One Saturday in Five – Saturday working hours 9:30 – 3:30) Normal working hours 8:30 – 4:30.
*Background and Service*
Kaleidoscope is a pioneering substance misuse treatment provider, offering evidence-based treatment and holistic support to individuals who access its’ services. Staff teams work collaboratively with partner agencies including G4S, Local Health Board, South Wales Police, HMPPS (Her Majesties Prison and Probation Service), PHW (Public Health Wales), and other third sector support agencies.
family planning and sexual health screening; Treatment will be individualised via personal recovery care planning and regular clinical assessment and reviews, and will seek to support service users to address their substance use as well as to raise motivation to address wider social and health issues.
Substance Misuse Nurses will deliver services in line with Welsh Government Treatment Frameworks, NICE guidance (National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence), and other relevant professional standards and legislation. Kaleidoscope staff are expected to follow Operational Policies and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), ensuring that the care and treatment provided is safe, undertaken to a high standard and informed by up-to-date, evidence-based practice.
They will have excellent communication skills, be able to work as part of a multidisciplinary team, across agency cultures including those within statutory, private and voluntary sector partnerships. The post holder must be flexible and efficient within small locality teams, to ensure services are delivered equitably and with the service user at the heart of delivery.
They will have a non-judgemental approach to people who have substance misuse problems and be able to provide a welcoming and accessible service to existing and potential service users.
*Deliver onsite dispensing and supervision of substitute opiate medication.*
*Follow Controlled Drug Policies and Procedures.*
*Provide advice, information, and guidance on the management of substance misuse to service users engaged with services.*
*Ensure case notes and other statutory records are up to date and kept in accordance with Kaleidoscope policies and procedures / regional information sharing protocols*
*Deliver clinical interventions, including HCV testing, HBV immunisation and naloxone training/administration where appropriate and in partnership with Local Health Board and PHW colleagues.*
*Liaise with community pharmacies to ensure prescriptions are in place and monitored appropriately.*
*Provide advice, support and training to GPs, pharmacists, and other professionals where appropriate.*
*Facilitate the transfer of service users from secondary to primary care services, and lead with referrals / liaison with Community Mental Health Teams (CMHT’s) and other community substance misuse treatment providers on leaving Kaleidoscope services.*
*Collate and enter data electronically and contribute to service reports.*
*25 days annual leave per year, rising to 27 after 1 years service and increasing by 1 day per year worked to a maximum of 32 days annual leave.
* 8 paid bank holidays per year
* The option to 'buy' or 'sell' up to 5 days annual leave per year
* Additional leave - Wellbeing day and 'You Day'
* Simply Health - cash back healthcare plan
* Cycle to work scheme
* Electric car scheme
* Up to 5 days paid dependency leave
* Paid sick leave
* Planned parental leave
* Employee recognition schemes
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Additional leave
* Company events
* Company pension
* Cycle to work scheme
* Health & wellbeing programme
* Sick pay
Day shift
* Monday to Friday
* Overtime
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