Health and Wellbeing Nurse in Harlow

This is an exciting opportunity to join a fast-paced and growing organisation. The successful candidate will be supporting our clinical and treatment pathways including supporting inpatient admissions, inpatient alcohol and drug detoxification, and health and wellbeing assessments. They will contribute to the routine clinical checks and audits for the CQC registered service and form part of the MDT. Our nursing teams are key to ensuring the delivery of excellent services, maintaining professional standards and CQC compliance, ensuring residents 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.

Main duties of the job

• To deliver clinical interventions in community-based hubs.
• Improve healthcare access for service users, BBV testing/treatment, health care assessments and community ambulatory detox and health checks/clinical observations.
• To provide and supervise the delivery of high standards of nursing care to those who use our services in accordance with up-to-date evidence based professional practice and Via policies.
• Deliver general healthcare activity, including Wound Care, ECGs, 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.
• To support people affected by drug and alcohol use to achieve and sustain their recovery, optimising health, and well-being.
• Being flexible in the hours worked will be expected of the post holder including late evenings.
• Good communication skills both written and verbal are essential. Confidence to work as part of a multidisciplinary team.

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. 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.

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 immunisation 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 for the role

• Passion for and understanding of working with substance misuse services or with other socially excluded or vulnerable groups. With a proven ability to meet deadlines, record information accurately and in a timely way and to work calmly under pressure.
• Great team working, communication and interpersonal skills. Demonstrating a highly cooperative approach to supporting colleagues and the whole team to deliver Service objectives, as well as in working directly with people and their significant others.
• Demonstrable ability to deliver an excellent quality level of service to people with complex needs. This includes the ability to work with people on a one-to-one basis or to facilitate group sessions, to be able to complete assessments, care and support plans, risk assessments and to complete case recording to a high standard and in a timely way.
• 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.
• Registered nurse (RMN, RGN or Learning Disabilities Nurse) with a current active PIN number.

Responsibilities for all Via staff

• To work within the Via values of Care, Be human and Do the right thing. Support and collaborate with all colleagues and engage with the wider organisation.
• To promote and deliver positive, inclusive and anti-discriminatory practices in line with Via policies, professional and sector requirements, and legislative frameworks.
• To act on all Safeguarding concerns so that all statutory and organisational Safeguarding responsibilities are met and that all learning is shared.
• To observe professional integrity and candour at all times and with all people.
• To comply with all organisational policies and procedures including GDPR and all Health and Safety policy and guidance, taking responsibility for your own safety and contributing to that of colleagues and others as applicable.
• To regularly participate in one-to-one/supervision sessions, objective setting and review, training, practice and learning forums.
• A commitment to learning and to continuously improve everyone's knowledge and skills.
• To work flexibly to enable the delivery of effective services. This may include flexibility across sites or flexible hours, and any other duties that may reasonably be required of you within your role.

Person Specification

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

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.

£35,878 to £41,868 a year. Salary includes Outer London Weighting allowance.