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Non Medical Nurse Prescriber
| Posting date: | 14 March 2025 |
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| Salary: | £49,178.00 to £55,492.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £49178.00 - £55492.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 14 April 2025 |
| Location: | Haringey, N17 6RA |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9306-25-0189 |
Summary
To assess clients level of opiate dependence and level of opiate withdrawal, to manage their initiation onto methadone or buprenorphine, in conjunction with the medical team. To carry out physical monitoring of clients undergoing methadone and buprenorphine titration, maintenance programmes, reduction and detoxification programmes. To initiate clients onto opiate substitute medication, via observed administration in our onsite care clinic. To undertake comprehensive assessments, physical and mental health needs, social and support issues and to present this information together with a proposed treatment plan to the multidisciplinary team. This will include clients who require prescribed medication i.e. Methadone or Buprenorphine or medication like Naltrexone. To accurately assess the multiple needs of this complex client group, including identifying and exercising judgments relating to homelessness, drug treatment, psychological counselling, treatment plans, criminal justice system, child protection, other agencies etc. To manage a caseload of complex clients and provide one to one key working ensuring that care and recovery planning is conducted on an individual basis according to the specific needs of the service user. To carry out appropriate risk assessment regarding prescribing and non-prescribing interventions, and implement appropriate interventions to manage identified risks To follow local safeguarding procedures in order to promote the safety and well-being of children and vulnerable adults. To support the production of reports necessary for social services, courts or other external organisations. To make home visits consistent with need and in line with Trust policies. To provide harm reduction services, such as Needle Exchange, in line with Trust guidelines. To support services users to become involved in local service user activities, planning and co-production Where appropriate, to engage friends and family of the service user in their treatment, where explicit consent has been given. To carry out urine drug screening and breath alcohol testing in order to assess safety of prescribing. To provide advice and guidance to other practitioners around safety of prescribing in relation to results. To provide advice and guidance to practitioners on mental health and physical health issues. To carry clinical reviews To participate in the delivery of the primary healthcare services, including the delivery of health and wellbeing clinics To promote the health needs of clients with complex issues, and within their sphere of competence provide interventions for these needs. To carry out HIV and Hepatitis C testing and pre/post-test counselling. To support the delivery of the onsite Hepatitis C treatment clinic. To carry out Hepatitis B testing and vaccination. To promote clinical excellence by complying with agreed Trust and statutory policies and clinical guidance, including Infection Control while maintaining own clinical competencies in this role. To support the Clinical Governance of the service, through reporting, investigating, recommending actions and learning lessons. To respond to and manage accidents & incidents, in line with Trust policy. This will include incident investigation and action planning. To work in partnership with an independent medical prescriber, as a supplementary non-medical prescriber, within the designated area of practice. As a supplementary non-medical prescriber prepare clinical management plans and prescribe only in accordance with these and within their scope of practice/competency taking full responsibility and accountability for their prescribing decisions. Ensure that patients are aware of the scope and limits of non-medical prescribing and ensure patients understand their rights in relation to non-medical prescribing. Patients have the right to refuse treatment/prescribing from a NMP