Job summary
- Main area
- Addictions Nursing
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5/6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Would need to cover one late night per week until 7.30pm)
- Job ref
- 334-NUR-7479046-SA
- Employer
- South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Pier Road Project- Bexley Addictions service
- Town
- Erith / Bexley
- Salary
- £35,763 - £52,521 development post, salary dependant on experience and knowledge
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/11/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Community Addictions nurse (Band 5/6 Developmental post)
NHS AfC: Band 5/6
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond.
We are committed to provide a high quality and specialist care to our service users and we are recognised for our care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’.
We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High; Changing Lives in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology to make a positive impact on patient care, outcomes and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will get the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported with learning and development to harness everyone’s potential as change makers.
The trust recognises the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role. We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them as an asset to the Trust.
Our Values
We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen and do what I say I’m going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you’ll be part of something special.
As a Trust we are happy to talk flexible working.
Job overview
Bexley Community Drug and Alcohol Service (Pier Road Project) are looking for enthusiastic, motivated, caring, and creative nurses from any discipline to come and join us. You will be working within an exciting and fast paced environment that provides high quality addictions and recovery care to a diverse service user group. The service is a partnership between NHS and voluntary services, and we work as a single service to get the highest quality of outcomes for residents over the age of 18 in Bexley.
We are looking to recruit a Band 5 or experienced Band 6 nurse of any discipline to be core members of the multi-disciplinary team, participating in the provision of on-going assessments, care planning, treatment, and support of people with drug and alcohol issues to promote health, independence, and recovery.
Main duties of the job
To lead the clinical management of a care package to individuals who use our services, as a member of a multi-disciplinary team.
To co-ordinate and monitor the delivery of person-centred healthcare to a designated group of people who use our services, using complex clinical decision making where appropriate and responding to changes in presentation/ situation appropriately. To promote shared decision making with service user/relatives/carers, as appropriate, in terms of involvement in all aspects of their care.
To deliver individual and group therapy utilising CBT skills.
To ensure provision of the necessary physical care to help people who use our services i.e.: alcohol assessments, BBV interventions, pabrinex, medication administration physical observations.
Harm reduction interventions
Working for our organisation
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) provide the widest range of NHS mental health services in the UK as well as substance misuse services for people who are addicted to drugs and alcohol.
SLaM employ around 5000 staff and serve a local population of 1.1 million people. We have more than 230 services including inpatient wards, outpatient, and community services. Currently, provide inpatient care for approximately 5,300 people each year and treat more than 45,000 patients in the community in Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark; as well as substance misuse services for residents of Bexley, Lambeth, Richmond and Wandsworth
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse any discipline (for band 6- with considerable post qualification experience which would include lengthy clinical experience working with people with substance misuse related problems and evidence of commitment to harm reduction interventions
- Evidence of continuing professional development and training (band 6: relevant to substance misuse work and harm reduction activity
Desirable criteria
- Diploma or degree level qualification in addictions or related area of practice such as CBT, dual diagnosis, etc
- Non-Medical Prescriber A/I
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience and evidence of ability to produce formal written reports, presentations and draft policies for consultation
- Experience of using word processing and database use as well as a willingness to improve existing skill base
- Experience of liaison with statutory and non-statutory services
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in the community
- Experience of the management of clients with complex needs
knowledge and skills
Essential criteria
- A thorough understanding of harm reduction in relation to injecting behaviour as well as safer sexual practices
- Knowledge of potential physical, psycho-social problems among this client group and appropriate interventions to address them
- Strong understanding of harm reduction, and relapse prevention in relation to substance misuse and planning recovery
- Ability to be flexible and thrive in a rapidly changing environment
- Ability to work autonomously and lead on development and maintenance of different areas of practice within the service
Desirable criteria
- Experience of and skills in delivering training
- Experience of supervising/managing junior staff and students
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Klara [email protected]
- Job title
- Clinical Team Leader ,
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01322 357940
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