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Substance Misuse Nurse

Job details
Posting date: 22 April 2024
Salary: £40,684.84 per year
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 06 May 2024
Location: Wrexham, Wales
Remote working: On-site only
Company: Adferiad Recovery
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: AB077

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Summary

Substance Misuse Nurse

Adferiad Recovery delivers a flexible and coordinated response to the exceptional circumstances faced by people with co-occurring mental health and substance use conditions and related issues. Vulnerable people facing complex life challenges need consistent and seamless support to ensure they remain engaged with vital health and wellbeing services – and to prevent them becoming disenfranchised and isolated.

Contract: 37.5 hours, 12hr day/night shifts over 7 days – working a 24/7 shift pattern

Salary: £40,684.84 per annum – inclusive of shift and bank holiday working.

Holidays: 25 days per year plus 8 public holidays (pro rata)

Location: Hafan Wen, Wrexham Maelor Hospital

Job Purpose:

Provide primary nursing care making an appropriate assessment of patients’ care needs, developing, implementing, and evaluating care programmes with the shift team, supervising them (on occasions) in the absence of the Lead Nurse.

Contribute to the continuous improvement of clinical guidelines and procedures for the Residential Services Directorate by acquiring best practice knowledge based on the latest therapeutic concepts in the addictions and substance misuse fields.

If you think you might have these skills, but are not 100% sure, please do still apply and let us decide. We know that certain groups rule themselves out of interesting opportunities assuming that others will be more successful, but please don't be that person. We want to hear from the widest cross section of the community.

Adferiad Recovery welcomes applications from everyone with the right to work in the UK, and values diversity in the workplace.

All employees are required to act inclusively to encourage, promote, and cultivate our values, (such as rights affirming and cultural diversity).

Working towards becoming a Rights Affirming organisation, we actively encourage applications from people where the Person Specification calls for a particular qualification or experience, we will consider waiving these requirements if an applicant who could not achieve them because of a disability can demonstrate he/she would be capable of performing well in the job and fulfils the criteria in other respects.

We are a living wage employer.

If you have difficulty accessing this information or would like it in a different format, please contact our recruitment team at recruitment@adferiad.org

FOR MORE INFORMATION, A FULL PERSON SPECIFICATION AND HOW TO APPLY, PLEASE GO TO OUR WEBSITE: https://adferiadrecovery.peoplehr.net/Pages/JobBoard/Opening.aspx?v=a2e56004-0819-445d-bd5a-dc596c8e792f

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