Job summary
Employer heading
Substance Misuse Nurse
Band 5
About Us
EPUT provides community health, mental health and learning disability services to support more than 3.2 million people living across Bedfordshire, Essex and Suffolk. Also:
- We are among the largest employers in the in the East of England region, with more than 10,000 staff working across more than 200 sites.
- We run the COVID-19 vaccination programme across mid and south Essex and Suffolk and north east Essex.
EPUT was formed on 1 April 2017 following the merger of North Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (NEP) and South Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (SEPT). A new leadership team was established at the Trust in 2020.
Our vision and values
Our Vision
鈥淭o be the leading health and wellbeing service in the provision of mental health and community care鈥.
Our Purpose
鈥淲e care for people every day. What we do together, matters鈥.
Our Values
- We Care
- We Learn
- We Empower
Our strategic objectives
- We will deliver safe, high quality integrated care services.
- We will enable each other to be the best that we can.
- We will work together with our partners to make our services better.
- We will help our communities to thrive.
Our services
- Mental Health Services
- Community Health Services
- Learning Disabilities Services
- Social Care
Find out more about the services we offer in our service directory.听
Job overview
PREVIOUS APPLICANTS NEED NOT APPLY
You will work as a member of Essex STaRS in providing high quality, evidence-based, holistic nursing care to service users in line with your NMC professional code of conduct and Trust policies. You will jointly assess, plan, implement and evaluate specialist prescribing packages of care based upon individual service user needs, under the guidance of the Independent Non-Medical Prescriber as per NICE guidance.
Main duties of the job
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Band 5 Substance Misuse Nurse
We are seeking to recruit an enthusiastic motivated individual to join our Chelmsford based听 team.听 This post can either be a developmental post for a newly qualified Band 5听 or can be offered to an experienced听 mental health or general nurse with an interest in the substance misuse field.
The service promotes life long learning and opportunities for continuing professional development听
We work with patients with opiate and alcohol misuse issues in partnership with other agencies.
We offer opiate substitute prescribing and ambulatory detox and provide holistic treatments that includes physical health assessments, BBV vaccinations and drug screening.
Working for our organisation
The successful candidate will be working as part of a multi disciplinary team. They will be part of a small team working across the Mid Essex area of the county. The team are very caring, compassionate and service user focused.
There is a wonderful work ethic in the office with a caring and warm welcome waiting for the successful candidate.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
JOB SUMMARY
You will work as a member of Essex STaRS in providing high quality, evidence-based, holistic nursing care to service users in line with your NMC professional code of conduct and Trust policies. You will jointly assess, plan, implement and evaluate specialist prescribing packages of care based upon individual service user needs, under the guidance of the Independent Non-Medical Prescriber as per NICE guidance.听
As required by your Team Manager, you will have responsibility for the day to day supervision and management of lower banded staff within your professional group and team locality. This will include the management of these staff in line with agreed Trust HR processes.
Person specification
qualified
Essential criteria
- qualified nursing degree
- compassion and why you want to work for our team
Desirable criteria
- Experience working in substance misuse
years experience
Essential criteria
- years experience
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of substance misuse
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dana Thomas
- Job title
- Clinical Lead/ Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01245 338837
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