An Independent Prescriber post in the Barnsley Recovery Steps substance misuse service, run by Waythrough within a multidisciplinary team. The role centres on clinical assessment and prescribing of medicines, including controlled drugs, alongside blood-borne virus testing, immunisation and harm reduction work. Much of the work is delivered across hubs and through outreach. Applicants need an Independent Prescriber qualification and registration as a nurse or pharmacist.
What the job involves
- Clinical assessment and prescribing of a range of medications, including controlled drugs, in line with national and organisational guidelines
- Prescribe cost-effectively and advise pharmacists, shared care GPs and hospital staff on prescribing
- Service user-centred assessment, care planning, monitoring and review in practice and outreach settings
- Blood-borne virus management: risk assessment, pre- and post-test counselling, testing and immunisation
- Deliver health promotion and harm reduction interventions, such as safer sex, contraception, nutrition and healthy living
- Promote and deliver hepatitis B immunisation in line with national guidance
- Maintain the clinical database, co-ordinating data entry, searches and reports while keeping data secure
- Liaise with pharmacists on supervised dispensing and prescription queries
- Share care with GPs for service users in Primary Care Extended Services and Primary Care Recovery Services
- Deliver clinical interventions across hubs and outreach as required
- Take part in clinical audit, implement findings, and report serious incidents including deaths in service
- Undertake CPD, clinical supervision and performance appraisals
What’s required
Qualifications
- Independent Prescriber qualification
- RCGP Qualifications Level 1, and Level 2 or willingness to work towards it
Registration & licences
- First level registered nurse (NMC) or registered pharmacist (GPhC)
Experience
- Entering complex information onto an electronic or clinical database
- Delivering evidence-based treatments in substance misuse
- General health care assessment, including blood-borne virus, health promotion and harm reduction
- Principles of clinical audit
Skills & knowledge
- Proficient in Microsoft Outlook and Office programmes
- Awareness of the social context of drug misuse
- Understanding of the complexities of primary health care
- Understanding of drug misuse services in the public and voluntary sectors
- Awareness of national strategies for drug and alcohol services and the role of the Independent Prescriber
- Understanding of the differences between private and public sector roles
Nice to have
- Experience of working within substance misuse
What’s offered
- Protected CPD time
- Individual and group supervision
- Support from a central multidisciplinary clinical department
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
