Job summary
- Main area
- Addictions
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 333-D-AD-0506
- Employer
- Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- New Beginnings -Brent
- Town
- Harlesden
- Salary
- £42,939 - £50,697 per annum inc HCAS (pro rata if P/T)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 28/11/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Outreach Nurse
NHS AfC: Band 6
Job overview
The aim is to provide an extended service to hostels and street homeless residents within the London Borough of Brent. The role will include a range of activities addressing the client's health and wellbeing, the development of pathways into specialist services, training of hostel and partnership outreach staff to manage residents out of hours, and improving the overall health inequalities via;
- Health promotion
- General Health Screening
- Engagement in Primary Care services and facilitating access to organised healthcare
The purpose of this role will be imperative in improving integrated pathways to prevent fragmented services that are efficient and effective. The role is specific to supporting those who want to improve health outcomes, especially for those who continually consume alcohol where traditional structured treatment will not be appropriate. The role will require peripatetic nurse-led general health clinics within hostels, supported through general practice.
The aim of the service is to help those with a range of health needs, including drug and alcohol use, access appropriate treatment and address clients' physical and mental health.
Furthermore, the service aims to reduce alcohol-related hospital admissions and health inequalities and improve pathways with community and hospital services.
To ensure that the care and management of this client group are delivered in compliance with HCC Quality Standards.
Main duties of the job
Main Responsibilities:
- To provide specialist drug and alcohol outreach clinics for local hostels, GP surgeries and organized health services in Brent, including follow-up referrals of drug and alcohol clients who are hard to engage. Work closely with GP Complex.
- Work closely with GP Complex Patients Management team, taking on/ follow up referrals.
- To work as a member of the multidisciplinary team in the management and treatment provision of a range of specialist services to problem drinkers and problematic drug takers residing in hostels, out of reach areas.
- To assess the client’s general health and provide early intervention treatment, sign posting, and referral to other organized health services.
- To develop and maintain pathways into specialist services to ensure the health and well-being of residents are met, including primary care services.
- To sign post service users to the appropriate health care settings to meet their needs.
- To be the single point of contact for Primary care services, local Hospitals and other organized health care services.
· Identify and refer dependent drinkers and those assessed to need further input into specialist alcohol services.
Working for our organisation
CNWL- Addictions and Offender Care Directorates
CNWL Addictions is a well-established NHS provider offering a wide range of high-quality drug and alcohol treatment interventions to the diverse and multicultural population across Ealing, Brent, Hillingdon, Hackney, Hounslow. In addition, we also have the tri-borough Club Drug Clinic as well as our National Problem Gambling Service.
The service is committed to a harm minimisation philosophy and to partnership working. Our main partners are primary care services, social and the third sectors.
Treatments are provided across all our clinical centres. Clinical Governance framework is well established and the service prides itself in its continuous development towards becoming a learning organisation.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
Please see attached JD&PS for full details of duties and responsibilities.
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • RMN / RN via the NMC professional body
- • Evidence of continuing personal development and post-registration training in the nursing care, assessment and treatment substance misuse clients.
Desirable criteria
- • Diploma in Drugs and Alcohol Studies or equivalent qualification
- • Training in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
- • Completed the Motivational Interviewing Training Module
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
- • Post-registration experience in Mental or general Health
- • Experience in senior role and managing staff
- • Experienced in the supply and administration of Hepatitis vaccines
- • Experienced and competent in the supply and administration of CNWL Trust Hepatitis Patient Group Directions
- • Extensive clinical experience
- • Case management experience
- • Experience in undertaking Risk Assessments and Risk Management
- • Teaching and Assessing qualification ENB 998 / SLICE or equivalent eg: mentorship
Desirable criteria
- • Community Nursing Experience
- • Experience of working in and delivering services to injecting drug users.
- • Experience of teaching others and willingness to undertake Teaching and Assessing qualification within six months of commencing post.
Skills and knowledge
Essential criteria
- • Sound clinical knowledge and understanding of current NHS policies and national drug issues/policies.
- • Good verbal, written and presentation skills.
- • Good interpersonal skills in order to communicate and negotiate effectively, both inside and outside the Trust.
- • Ability to work independently and to prioritise effectively
- • Ability to assess and treat people with dual diagnosis
- • Ability to treat service users with respect and dignity at all times, adopting a culturally sensitive approach, which considers the needs of the whole person
- • Able to build constructive relationships with warmth and empathy, using good communication skills IT literate: competent using Microsoft Word and able to report clinical activity data on patient information systems
Desirable criteria
- • Experience of working with stimulant users and people with alcohol problems.
- • Experience of group facilitation
- • Experience of managing a caseload within the community
- • Awareness/knowledge of research skills
Attitudes, aptitudes, personal characteristics
Essential criteria
- Committed to multidisciplinary team work
- Committed to User involvement
- Flexible & responsive to a developing service. The post holder must have the ability to understand and implement the Equal and Diversity policy at a level appropriate to the job
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Samson Durodola
- Job title
- Service Coordinator
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02084381777
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