Addictions Clinical Nurse Specialist | Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 03 June 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £42,939 - £50,697 per annum inc HCAS pro rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 03 July 2025 |
| Location: | Harlesden, NW10 3RY |
| Company: | CNWL NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7252119/333-D-AD-0525-A |
Summary
The role is specific to supporting those who aim to improve health outcomes, especially for those who continually consume alcohol, where traditional structured treatment will not be appropriate.
The aim of the service is to help those with a range of health needs, including drug and alcohol use, access appropriate treatment and address clients' physical and mental health. The service will provide essential health promotion to increase the number of clients engaging with services to address their health and well-being.
• Patient Assessment:Conduct initial assessments to evaluate addiction severity and monitor patient progress.
• Treatment Planning:Collaborate with an interdisciplinary team to develop and implement individualised treatment plans.
• Medication management -issuing scripts for patients on OST andpatients on alcohol community detox.
CNWL Addictions is a well-established NHS provider offering high-quality drug and alcohol treatment interventions to the diverse and multicultural population across Ealing, Brent, Hillingdon, Hackney, and Hounslow. We also have the tri-borough Club Drug Clinic and National Problem Gambling Service.
The service is committed to a harm minimisation philosophy and partnership working. Our main partners are primary care services, social services, and the third sector.
Treatments are provided across all our clinical centres. The Clinical Governance framework is well established, and the service prides itself on its continuous development towards becoming a learning organisation.
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
For further information about the advertised role, please refer to the job description & person specification included in the documents section of this advert.
Case load management
Chair key meetings - MDT, Case Managers meetings etc
Running clinics - Fibroscan, ECG, BBV, Pabrinex and Nursing assessments
Supervising Junior staff members, recovery practitioners and students
This advert closes on Monday 16 Jun 2025
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