Substance Misuse Nurse - HMP Berwyn

As a substance misuse nurse you will manage a clinical caseload of men who misuse substances ensuring appropriate assessment and treatment interventions are provided and SMART goals are agreed.

You will:

• Plan, deliver and evaluate interventions and/or treatments when there are complex issues and/or serious illness.
• Discuss the treatment plan and the related needs with the service user and the wider team and understand your own role in delivering interventions and/or treatments within the plan.
• Work closely with the Primary Care Team, Mental Health team and all other health providers to ensure the delivery of a fully integrated service.
• Identify any specific precautions or contra-indications to the proposed interventions/treatments and take the appropriate action.
• Support and monitor patients throughout, promptly alerting the line manager when there are unexpected changes in individuals' health and wellbeing or level of risk.
• Provide information to the SMS team on how individuals' needs are changing and feedback on the appropriateness of the individual's treatment plan when there are issues.
• Respond to, record and report any adverse event or incident relating to the intervention/treatment with an appropriate degree of urgency.

Main duties of the job:

Good communication skills are vital as the role will include the direct management of service users on their treatment pathway. You will need to provide a holistic service and ensure that management plans are specific to individuals' needs and delivered in a way which the patient understands. You will be expected to attend and contribute to multi-disciplinary meetings and liaise with community teams, so establishing good working relationships with both the prison and community services will be vital.

Our aim is to identify staff with a strong belief in recovery. It is important that you have a good understanding of caring for patients from all backgrounds, including an awareness of mental illness and substance misuse to identify risky behaviours. You will be joining a team committed to improving the health and wellbeing of patients under our care, so you will need to be approachable, energetic, resilient and adaptable to an ever-changing environment. In addition, we are keen to develop employees and offer excellent progression through various career pathways.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Person Specification:

Qualifications:

• RGN, Associated Professional Qualification
• Evidence of continued professional development
• Post Graduate Education in a relevant area
• Nurse Prescribing or willing to undertake
• Teaching and Assessing in Clinical Practice
• RCGP certificate in substance misuse part 1 or equivalent recognised qualification

Experience:

• Demonstrable experience at Band 5.
• Proven experience in a supervisory or management role
• Experience of planning, delivering and evaluating care plans in response to complex needs
• Nursing in a secure environment
• Experience of developing policies and protocols

Please note that any offer of employment will be subject to the successful receipt of a DBS and prison vetting clearances. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.