Substance Misuse Nurse

Overview

Your Role:
Substance Misuse Nurse Lead our substance misuse services and be the driving force behind recovery-focused care in our Category B local prison. Are you a Registered Nurse with a passion for substance misuse and recovery? We're seeking a dedicated Substance Misuse Nurse to join our enhanced primary care service - where you'll lead on addiction services, support life-changing journeys, and work at the forefront of recovery-focused care.

• Deliver Opiate Substitution Therapy (OST) - administer methadone, buprenorphine, and Buvidal injections, ensuring safe, effective treatment for patients on OST pathways.
• Drive therapeutic engagement - oversee patients  recovery journeys with a focus on therapeutic engagement, motivation, and progression towards drug-free lives.
• Manage detoxification pathways - support patients stabilizing from illicit drugs and alcohol by managing medications, conducting withdrawal assessments, and addressing complications with clinical expertise.
• Assess new arrivals - see all new patients requiring detox, implement appropriate care plans, and ensure robust monitoring from day one.
• Provide specialist clinical care - conduct bloods, ECGs, and manage blood-borne virus (BBV) screening and treatment for this client group.
• Champion MDT working - collaborate closely with multidisciplinary teams to deliver holistic, coordinated care.
• Lead quality improvement - complete audits relating to your area of practice and contribute to service development.
• Build partnerships - work alongside external agencies including CGL and prison colleagues to create and sustain a recovery-focused environment.

• Registered Nurse with a passion for substance misuse and recovery.
• Experience leading addiction services within a healthcare setting preferred.
• Ability to work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team and external partners.
• Commitment to recovery-focused care and service development.

• Access to NHS Pension
• Annual leave on your Birthday
• Welcome payment for some posts
• Refer a friend scheme
• Training and Development opportunities
• Flexible Working
• Access to Employee Assistance and Health and Wellbeing programmes
• Up to 33 days annual leave

We have an ambition to become a truly lived experience inclusive employer, changing how we approach staff experience and value personal stories our colleagues bring with them. We welcome applications from everyone, including applicants with lived experience, those who belong to LGBTQIA+ Community and are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (or questioning), Intersex and Asexual, people with a disability, neurodivergent applicants and people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds.

Spectrum Community Health CIC provides a range of award-winning healthcare services on behalf of the NHS, Local Authority Public Health services, and other partners across substance misuse, sexual health, and health and justice settings. As a not-for-profit social enterprise and Community Interest Company our focus is centred on people - our patients, service users, staff and partners.