Clinical Nurse Specialist

The Band 7 Substance Misuse Nurse at the Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a senior nursing specialist role responsible for delivering expert assessment, clinical care, and care co-ordination for patients with drug and alcohol misuse issues within the hospital setting. This role is clinical, autonomous, and leadership-focused, bridging acute care with community treatment pathways and supporting multidisciplinary teams to ensure safe, effective, person-centred care.

Main duties of the job

• Clinical Practice

• Perform comprehensive assessment of patient nursing needs, plan, implement and evaluate care delivery according to changing health care needs.
• Collect, collate, evaluate and report information, maintaining accurate patient records.
• Involve patients and carers/relatives in the planning and delivery of care.
• Work collaboratively with other professionals and agencies to ensure patient needs are met, especially in relation to ongoing care needs and discharge arrangements.
• Prescribe medications within agreed protocols.
• Establish and maintain effective communication with patients and carers/relatives.

• Provide specialist, expert clinical knowledge to clinical colleagues, patients and carers/relatives.
• Undertake clinical supervision of nursing colleagues on an individual or group basis.
• Participate in the development of services and assist the Ward Manager/Matron to implement change.
• Ensure the effective and efficient use of physical and financial resources.
• Monitor health, safety and security of self and others and promote best practice in the ward area.

• Provide education and development opportunities for others.
• Develop own “expert” clinical knowledge and participate in the development of others' clinical knowledge.
• Ensure own compliance and compliance of others with regards to mandatory training and PREP requirements.

Working for our organisation

Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a high performing and flourishing organisation serving the population of Hackney, East London, The City and beyond. We are extremely proud of the fact that Homerton Hospital has recently attained the highest possible rating of "Outstanding" from the Care Quality Commission (CQC). Our integrated Trust provides comprehensive hospital and community health services for its local population and a range of specialist services for a wider group of patients. In addition, the Trust manages services out of St Leonard's Hospital and the Mary Seacole Nursing Home.

Homerton aims to ensure equality and value diversity, and we are committed to inclusion for all of our staff. This is reflected in our policies, procedures and People Plan. All of our staff are expected to embody our Trust values at all times. We are also committed, through our Fair Recruitment Standards, to ensuring all applicants are treated fairly. Homerton has a proud tradition of supporting and developing its staff, including its well-regarded and valued nursing community, and all staff are able to take advantage of a great range of benefits. Homerton is proud to have been included on the HSJ & Nursing Times Best Places to Work list.

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 documents, please view the attachment/s on this page.

Person specification

• Education/Qualifications

• Teaching and assessing
• Post registration drug and alcohol qualification or relevant experience

• Participated in service development and implementation of change
• Ability to communicate in a variety of settings with patients of varying levels of understanding
• Able to present written information in a logical manner
• Basic IT skills in word processing and spreadsheets
• Able to manage own workload and work with minimal supervision
• Ability to develop effective interpersonal relationships with colleagues in the health care setting

• Working in the drug and alcohol field

• Knowledge/understanding of confidentiality issues
• Knowledge of professional and NHS issues

• Understanding and demonstration of the Trust Values
• Commitment and adherence to equality, diversity and inclusion
• Motivated to further personal and professional development
• Commitment to the principle of equal opportunities for all
• Ability to work flexibly to meet the needs of the service

General Guidance for Applicants

Please ensure that you read the "Guidance Notes On Submitting An Application" under "Additional Documentation" before completing your application. Please note: we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once a sufficient number of applications have been received. We are committed to achieving equality and inclusion at Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, and we respect and value the diversity and our people, ensuring everyone is enabled to thrive, feels a sense of belonging, and is able to be their authentic self. We offer a range of flexible working options that enable you to balance your work and personal life, including part-time, compressed hours, remote working and job-shares. If you are interested in joining our team, please let us know your preferred working pattern in your application, and we will consider all requests for flexible working and try to accommodate them wherever possible. Please note that secondment arrangements will be considered for any fixed term positions, with the agreement of the existing line manager. We are committed to equal opportunities, and have been approved as a Disability Confident Employer.

You must have appropriate UK professional registration. The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.