Health and Wellbeing Nurse Ilford

Job summary

At Via, our mission is to provide the best health and wellbeing support to as many people as possible, helping them to change their lives for the better.

Last year, we supported over 11,000 people across the UK affected by alcohol and drug use. Everything we do is driven by our values:

Care. Care for people is at the heart of everything we do.

Be human. We are accessible, genuine and humble. Always learning.

Do the right thing. We're open, honest and inclusive. We get things done.

We want to recruit the very best talent. We believe in nurturing a positive workplace culture where our colleagues feel valued, recognised, empowered, and supported.

Main duties of the job

This is an exciting opportunity to join a fast-paced and growing organisation.

We're looking for a Health and Wellbeing Nurse to join our Adult Drug and Alcohol Service in the London Borough of Redbridge, based in Ilford town centre. The successful candidate will be supporting our clinical and treatment pathways, including Buvidal clinics, ambulatory alcohol detoxification, BBV pathways, and health and wellbeing assessments for all service users. They will contribute to the routine clinical checks and audits for the CQC registered service, form part of the MDT, and support the management and development of our local development pathways, including associate nurses.

Our nursing teams are key to ensuring the delivery of excellent services, maintaining professional standards and CQC compliance, ensuring service users have routine access to health and wellbeing assessments, and delivering key pathways for treatment and harm reduction, improving outcomes for the communities that we serve.

You won't just be delivering clinical care you'll be supporting people to stabilise their health, regain confidence, and move toward a safer, more hopeful future.

We're looking for nurses who bring empathy, clear communication, and the ability to stay grounded when situations become complex.

If you're someone who listens deeply, approaches people without judgement, and wants to make a real impact on recovery, we'd be excited to hear from you.

About us

At Via, our mission is to provide the best health and wellbeing support to as many people as possible, helping them to change their lives for the better.

Details

Date posted: 11 September 2026

Pay scheme: Other

Salary: £38,401 to £44,571 a year

Salary includes London Weighting where applicable

Contract: Permanent

Working pattern: Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number: B0427-0452

Job locations: 11 Chapel Road, Ilford, IG1 2DR, United Kingdom

Job description

Job responsibilities

Role Purpose

To deliver excellent drug and alcohol services to those who use our services and their significant others, including family members friends and carers, to facilitate positive outcomes.

Where indicated, undertake community alcohol detoxification, support Opiate detoxification and titration in the community and refer for specialist inpatient services including liaising with hospital and inpatient unit staff.

Support outreach work across the borough, particularly around alcohol misuse.

Lead on Harm Reduction approaches within the service, including helping to reduce the spread of BBVs via testing and immunization schemes.

Deliver general healthcare support, including Wound Care, ECGs, healthcare assessments, and other similar activity.

Undertake basic life support/ anaphylaxis training so you are confident and competent to manage a medical emergency including the administration of emergency drugs.

Key duties and activities of the role

Provide high quality, person centred, low threshold services, responding to the individual and diverse needs and preferences of people and their significant others.

Deliver evidence-based clinical and psychosocial one-to-one and group interventions as part of an effectively integrated care package. Take an assertive approach to service user disengagement.

Deliver harm reduction advice, guidance and education. To include blood borne virus interventions (screening, vaccination and treatment access), overdose prevention including naloxone programs, health and wellbeing screening brief and facilitated signposting and referral to partner services, including primary care.

Enable people to access education and employment services and health, wellbeing and recovery support activities and to signpost to other available services.

Support students, volunteers, peer mentors and service user representatives to take an active part in Via services.

Identify risks and take appropriate action in accordance with local, national and organisational Safeguarding policies, contributing to multi-disciplinary review meetings.

Maintain accurate and timely records using the designated case management system in compliance with Via Information Governance policies and procedures.

Work flexibly, including across multiple sites and peripatetically when required

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered nurse (RMN, RGN or Learning Disabilities Nurse) with a current active PIN number

Desirable

• Good IT skills including use of Microsoft Office programs and digital meeting platforms and Case Management Systems like Nebula, System One or Theseus.
• A demonstrable understanding of the Health and Social Care regulatory requirements of the Care Quality Commission (CQC), National Institute for Clinical Excellence standards for Health and Social Care and any other relevant bodies.
• Demonstrable commitment to working in partnership with other professionals such as criminal justice agencies, community groups and other stakeholders to achieve good outcomes for people.
• The ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, in different settings (e.g. written, spoken, presented, etc) and to different groups of people

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

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.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.