Advanced Alcohol Nurse Specialist

The nurse specialist will assess and provide nursing treatment of patients with alcohol related problems, provide appropriate disease related advice and promote health education in conjunction with the multi-disciplinary team. They are expected to carry out specialist nursing and clinical procedures and refer patients appropriately and timely, for investigations and to other service providers.

They will deliver staff education programmes, ongoing advice and clinical supervision to other health care professionals. They will accept referrals from other Health Care Professionals; work unsupervised and manage their own clinics, with regular monitoring/clinical supervision from the GI consultants.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.

As part of a comprehensive healthcare initiative, the role involves developing strong operational relationships with local drug and treatment service providers, as well as community and voluntary organisations. It includes delivering advanced nursing care and leading nurse-led clinics to assess new patients referred to the Gastroenterology service. The position requires providing tailored interventions to referred patients—offering personalised feedback, advice, and information—to encourage behavioural change around alcohol use, promote engagement with community-based treatment services, and reduce hospital attendances and readmissions.

A key responsibility is ensuring that hospital staff and GPs are informed about alcohol misuse and actively screen and refer patients to the Alcohol Nurse Specialist. The role also encompasses meeting government-led targets within regulatory frameworks, offering brief interventions and telephone counselling, and contributing to the field through research and clinical audits in the specialist area.

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Develop strong operational relationships with local drug and treatment service providers and local community and voluntary organisations.

To provide interventions to referred patients, including personalized feedback, advice and information, aiming to elicit a change in their drinking behavior, to encourage greater take up of community based treatment services, where appropriate and to avert future hospital

attendances/admissions/readmissions.

Meeting government led targets working with applicable regulatory parameters for the service.

To provide nursing care at an advanced level.

To provide nurse-led clinics to assess new patients to Gastroenterology service.

To ensure that hospital staff and GP's are aware of alcohol misuse issues, and are committed to screening patients for alcohol misuse and making appropriate referrals to the Alcohol Nurse Specialist.

To provide advice/brief interventions and information on the management of alcohol problems.

To provide telephone counselling and advice.

Undertake research and clinical audits in own specialist area.