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About the Role

Change Grow Live is a charity dedicated to helping individuals change the direction of their lives, grow as individuals, and live life to its full potential. As a Substance Misuse Nurse, you will be an integral part of a multi-disciplinary team, offering specialist clinical interventions to people affected by drugs and alcohol, helping to shape the vision for clinical service delivery.

Responsibilities

• Undertake physical and mental health assessments for service users.
• Signpost or refer service users to primary or secondary healthcare services for identified health issues.
• Provide education, health promotion, and screening for blood-borne viruses (BBV).
• Administer Hepatitis B vaccinations when indicated.
• Contribute to CGL’s Naloxone Strategy.
• Ensure procedures are regularly reviewed to promote best practice and evidence-based practice in accordance with UK Guidelines on Clinical Management, NICE guidance, and CGL clinical protocols and procedures.
• Provide harm reduction advice to injecting service users, including information and equipment, and ensure safe disposal of all equipment.
• Record and input client data and information.

Requirements

• Must be a registered Substance Misuse Nurse.
• Must be able to work flexibly to meet client needs, including late opening hours.
• Must be able to wear designated company uniform while on duty.
• Application must be written in the applicant's own words.
• Post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at an enhanced level.

Skills

• Specialist clinical interventions
• Understanding of a whole person approach
• Curiosity
• Good listening skills
• Clinically robust practitioner
• Flexible approach
• Harm reduction advice

Location

• Camden

Work Type

• Full Time
• Permanent

Experience Level

• Not specified

Education Level

• Registered Nurse

Salary/Compensations

• £38,114.53 - £44,469.24 (CGL points 33 to 39)
• Inner London Weighting: £4,236.47

Benefits

• Regular 1:1s and appraisals
• Protected continuing professional development time (up to 6 days per year) for revalidation
• Free access to the RCNi learning platform
• Reimbursement of NMC fee
• Opportunity to use Apprenticeship Levy fund for development
• Paid 'Wellness' hour each week
• Access to personal well-being resources
• Competitive nursing pay (comparable to NHS Agenda for Change pay bands)
• Generous holiday entitlement (+ bank holidays), increasing annually for first five years’ service
• Flexible working arrangements
• Access to Wellness Hub and Employee Assistance Program
• Contributory pension scheme
• Discounts on shopping, cinema, holidays, and more
• Friendly and supportive team environment
• Free eye test vouchers
• Extensive training, career development, and progression opportunities
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Generous Refer a Friend Scheme

About the Company

• Change Grow Live is a charity dedicated to the belief that we can make a difference to our Service Users lives.
• Our core values are ‘Be open, be compassionate and be bold’.
• Our teams offer support and respect in a safe environment, treating each user as an individual and working with them to find the right treatment and care options.

Equal Opportunity

• Not specified