Alcohol Specialist Nurse | Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 14 April 2026 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £39,959 - £48,117 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 14 May 2026 |
| Location: | Cramlington, NE23 6NZ |
| Company: | Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7914584/319-7914584PM |
Summary
The nurse specialist will assist in the assessment and treatment of patients with alcohol related problem, provide appropriate disease related advice and promote health education in conjunction with the multi-disciplinary team.
They maybe expected to carry out specialist nursing and clinical procedures and refer patients appropriately and timely, for investigations and to other service providers. They will assist in delivering staff education programmes, ongoing advice and clinical supervision to other health care professionals. They will accept referrals from other Health Care Professionals; work unsupervised and may manage their own clinics, with regular monitoring/clinical supervision from the GI consultants.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
• Undertakes research and clinical audits in own specialist area
• To provide nursing care at an advanced level
• To provide nurse-led clinics to assess new patients to Gastroenterolgy service.
• To provide follow-up clinics
• To provide advice/brief interventions and information on the management of alcohol problems
• To provide telephone counselling and advice
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.
• Provides advice and information on the management of alcohol to senior nurses and junior medical staff.
• Provides case presentation of complex patients to senior medical staff.
• Provides updates/information about relevant changes or developments within own specialty to managers/ directors and clinical directors.
• Provides complex and sensitive information to relatives and carers about their condition relevant investigations and the options for treatment.
• Frequent discussion with external agencies offering advice re referral and management of alcohol problems, also updates on the patients’ clinical condition, results of investigations and future management of their condition.
This advert closes on Tuesday 28 Apr 2026