Health and Wellbeing Nurse
| Posting date: | 04 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | £28,370.00 to £40,830.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £28370.00 - £40830.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 06 July 2025 |
| Location: | Carlisle, CA3 8SY |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | B0061-VN5206 |
Summary
Workplace values The post holder will be expected to live our workplace values which are: Honest: we are open and realistic, building trusted relationships in which we challenge, collaborate and change. Committed: we are passionate about being the best that we can be, and we do this by keeping people at the heart of everything that we do. Inventive: we are ambitious, drawing together skills and resources to innovate and adapt in determined pursuit of our mission. Job Purpose To support the clinical team in the service and delivery of direct service user care. Key accountabilities: 1. To provide alcohol assessments, community detoxifications and referrals to in- patient or other support networks including mutual aid. 2. To develop onsite service community alcohol detoxifications, working alongside operational colleagues. 3. To work with hospitals in providing a managed pathway for people with alcohol misuse, through appropriate referral process or direct referral. 4. To provide healthcare assessment across services but specifically in needle exchanges and outreach services. 5. Provide a BBV service that incorporates screening and vaccination for Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C screening, re-screening and treatment provision in partnership with specialist services. 6. Co-ordinate and deliver call and recall services for Hepatitis B & Hepatitis A Immunisations, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C and HIV Testing. 7. Along with the wider teams work to promote harm reduction across needle exchanges, outreach services. hostels and other venues. 8. Develop smoking cessation strategies and work with specialist services in developing a COPD pathway and onsite treatment provision, including liaising with prescribing clinician/issuing medication under PGD if service is required. 9. Deliver basic wound management and work with specialist services in delivering more complex treatment provision to service users. 10. To promote and deliver naloxone across services. 11. Deliver health promotion and harm reduction interventions in a client-centred manner (e.g. safer sex, contraception, nutrition and healthy living). 12. Promote infection control and harm reduction messages in relation to injecting behaviour and sharing of equipment specific to reducing BBV and bacterial infections. 13. In relation to the nursing role, review service consistency against external strategies, policies, guidelines and targets and co-ordinate service review as appropriate. 14. Provide data for planning and participate in; strategy planning, service needs assessment, clinical effectiveness review, service framework development and implementation, as needed. 15. Participate in external and internal sub groups and take responsibility for production or coproduction of plans and reports, as requested. 16. Provide support and assistance to other Humanknd substance misuse services during mobilisation 17. Participate in the audit process and promote service wide or local clinical audit. Implement findings/changes where indicated. 18. Ensure all serious incidents (including deaths in service) are reported, implementing any service changes arising. 19. Contribute to teaching events as part of any consultancy initiatives and to in-house training and teaching. 20. Collaborate on clinical governance, review and implementation of policies and guidelines. 21. Assist continued involvement with national and local research projects, as appropriate. 22. Contribute to the development of joint working with local provider organisations. 23. Participate in the co-ordination of strategies for integration of health and social care, as appropriate. 24. Contribute to the maintenance of service user databases by recording accurate, up to date notes in accordance with service protocol and NMC guidance. 25. Undertake continuing professional development including participating in clinical supervision, performance appraisals and attending training as/when required . 26. Work in accordance with all relevant legislation, best practice policies & procedures and guidelines both internal and external. This includes Humankinds clinical governance policy. 27. Keep abreast of policy and professional development within your area of professional expertise. 28. To promote, adhere to and live our workplace values of being honest, committed and inventive.