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Tobacco and Alcohol Support Nurse | Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 25 Mehefin 2024 |
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| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £28,407 - £34,581 per annum, pro rata |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 25 Gorffennaf 2024 |
| Lleoliad: | Preston, PR2 9HT |
| Cwmni: | Lancashire Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Cytundeb |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 6362087/438-PB1889 |
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An exciting opportunity has arisen for a band 5 registered nurse to work as part of the Tobacco and Alcohol Care Team (TACT). This is a fixed term post and will provide the successful applicant with the experience necessary to progress within this speciality. We are a supportive team of clinical nurse specialists and advisers and can provide the opportunity to develop skills in a highly rewarding role.
We are looking for a nurse who is highly motivated to support our nursing staff across Lancashire Teaching Hospital with assessments for both tobacco and alcohol-use and help deliver brief advice and interventions.
We would love to hear from applicants who are passionate about supporting people to improve their health outcomes and reduce health inequalities.
As a Support Nurse, you will play a crucial role in enhancing patient care through a variety of impactful responsibilities:
• Comprehensive Care Management: Conduct thorough holistic assessments and design, implement, and evaluate evidence-based care plans tailored to each patient's unique needs.
• Alcohol Withdrawal Management: Identify and communicate risks associated with alcohol withdrawal syndrome, ensuring timely escalation and the implementation of appropriate pharmacological treatments.
• Harm Reduction Interventions: Deliver specialized interventions for tobacco and alcohol harm reduction, including providing smoking cessation support and brief advice to patients, staff, and occasionally their relatives or carers.
• Promoting a Smoke-Free Culture: Actively advocate for and support the transition to a smoke-free environment, fostering a healthier culture within the facility.
• Collaborative Communications: Partner with the Trust’s Communications and Engagement team to create and disseminate both internal and external messages about the services offered
We have 10 000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria.
Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.
You'll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet fab people & do things you'd never have done.
You'll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care and enhancing their experience which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.
To provide effective care coordination to an identified caseload of service users, ensuring the delivery of evidence based interventions to encourage safe discharge and overall successful outcomes.
Proactively engage with patients, relatives and carers to seek their views, gain agreement and keep them informed about their treatment and care.
Develop individually tailored support plans, including recommending treatments based on assessed needs and provide appropriate intervention in relation to need.
Ensure planned care is delivered in a holistic manner that is consistent with evidence based practice, clinical guidelines, legislation, policies and procedures.
Escalates concerns about patient’s condition in a timely manner where unable to provide appropriate intervention.
To assess and manage risk, working as a team with patients, their families, and other agencies where appropriate, to minimise risk and encourage those affected to adopt safer practices and live healthier lifestyles.
Support bereaved and distressed patients/relatives in a kind and compassionate manner.
Comply fully with the trust uniform policy.
To develop/utilise clinical care pathways and robust discharge planning to facilitate access from acute care to primary care, social care, drug and alcohol specialist services, stop smoking support services, criminal justice, young person’s services and mental health.
To support patients to engage with mutual aid support groups and services to help them in their recovery journey and promote independence
For more information, please see the job description and person specification
This advert closes on Tuesday 9 Jul 2024