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Substance Misuse Nurse/hospital DACT | Spectrum Community Health CIC
| Posting date: | 07 February 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £37,338 - £44,962 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 09 March 2025 |
| Location: | Bishop Auckland, DL14 7BH |
| Company: | Spectrum Community Health CIC |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6998107/847-CW-25-V521 |
Summary
Exciting opportunity to join a new Drug and Alcohol Care Team (DACT) providing in-reach support to adult mental health inpatients in County Durham / Darlington. Team to develop a holistic and proactive partnership approach to support those experiencing mental ill health and drug and/or alcohol issues.
Reinvestment monies from OHID will provide a band 6 MH nurse with substance misuse knowledge and understanding to work with the acute service in Durham/Darlington the established Alcohol Care Team within the local hospital and community substance misuse services. Support ward staff enabling continuity of care for opiate replacement therapies and alcohol dependent users. Advise on induction, continuation regimes and facilitating continuation of community detoxes once discharged. Promote engagement with SM Services within the SU local area.
Cover MH hospitals in Durham. The role will liaise between acute and community services promoting recovery and engagement.
Provide professional advice, promote community provision to the service users to promote engagement. Deliver after care interventions and supporting service users on the ward and once back in the community.
The role will perform a level of education and training to share best practice and increase acute services understanding of substance misuse needs and treatment options.
Please note funding for this position currently ends of the 31st March 2025 with a hope of future funding into 2025/26 for minimum of 12 months
Provide professional advice to colleagues within the acute services.
Promote engagement with OST or alcohol treatments
Enhance delivery of community detox options
Promote after care medications and engagement with aftercare medications
Liaise between acute and community service to enhance service delivery
Promote alcohol knowledge and harm reduction with service users and professionals
Community detox preparation and engagement, with support from acute and community services.
BE THE DIFFERENCE IN HEALTHCARE
Join our team
We’re looking for passionate individuals to join our diverse and innovative team.
Whether you are starting out in your healthcare journey or are an experienced healthcare professional looking for a new challenge we’ve got a role for you!
• Access to NHS Pension
• Annual leave on your Birthday
• Welcome payment for some posts
• Refer a friend scheme
• Training and Development opportunities
• Flexible Working
• Access to Employee Assistance and Health and Wellbeing programmes
• Up to 33 days annual leave
Spectrum Community Health CIC provides a range of award-winning healthcare services on behalf of the NHS, Local Authority Public Health services, and other partners across substance misuse, sexual health, and health and justice settings. As a not-for-profit social enterprise and Community Interest Company our focus is centred on people – our patients, service users, staff and partners.
We are building on our ambition to deliver the best in health and wellbeing on a values-driven ethos and to maintain the highest standards of patient care and service. We are an expanding organisation, but we aim to grow without compromising on quality and social value.
Our Mission
Holistic interventions delivered with compassion for the stigmatised and marginalised in our communities
Our Vision
Quality healthcare that makes a difference to people’s lives, regardless of circumstances.
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for further details on the advertised role.
This advert closes on Sunday 23 Feb 2025