Substance Misuse Lead
| Posting date: | 17 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | £43,742.00 to £50,056.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £43742.00 - £50056.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 16 June 2024 |
| Location: | Portland, DT5 1DL |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9277-24-0809 |
Summary
The post holder will exercise a high degree of personal and professional autonomy, make complex and critical judgments, and have decision making skills to satisfy the expectations of the role. To participate in the comprehensive assessments of service users referred to the team, including specialist assessments of service users requiring non-medical prescribing, ensuring that a medical history and medication history, is undertaken and implemented where required. To prescribe and change medications within area of speciality and competence. To strategically develop, deliver, clinically audit and evaluate the substance misuse services for the prison. This will include development and implementation of appropriate referral/care pathway for service users identified as having a dual diagnosis. To demonstrate and provide robust expert clinical leadership to junior staff with a sound understanding of evidence-based nursing practice to provide a pro-active approach to ensure quality and outcome driven practice on a day-to-day basis. To support the development of monitoring systems, to promote the development of evidence-based practice in the specialist field and to promote research as appropriate. To participate and lead as directed in the managerial and professional clinical supervision programme, to ensure all junior staff receive appropriate supervision, training and annual appraisal, and to ensure that it becomes an integral part of team practice. To ensure the implementation of effective and appropriate service user centred care plans and consistent delivery throughout the prison. To promote engagement with the Mayors Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) dual diagnosis programme with service users. The post holder will work collaboratively with the Operational Manager, Clinical Leads, GPs and other clinicians to meet and review service needs as required. To actively promote service user healthcare through the provision of information, formal presentations, general networking and liaison with prison, statutory and other non-statutory agencies IMPORTANT INFORMATION, PLEASE READ: All applicants must be willing to undertake National Security Vetting in order to work in a Prison Setting. This will be completed as part of the pre-employment checks through Oxleas and the prison vetting team. You will need to provide: Proof of right to work documentation Proof of ID, needs to include 1 photographicID Proof of address documentation Non-UK passport holders will need to have correct documentation (right to work in the UK) and a Home office Share code. Address History: 5 years address history will be needed. Applicants that are not UK Passport holders who provide less than 5 years UK address history will need to provide a Police Certificate which must be in English from where they resided previously. Applicants who are UK Passport holders who have lived abroad for a period of more than six months during the last three years will need to provide a certificate of good conduct or an overseas police check in English from the countries resided in or visited. In order to assist you in obtaining a Police Certificate, guidance can be sought from:https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants If the country you have resided in is not listed here, you can obtain the necessary information by contacting the relevant Embassy or High Commission for that Country. Their contact details can be found on the Foreign & Commonwealth Office website (http://www.fco.gov.uk/en).