Job summary
As well as providing clinical services to our services users, as Senior Nurse, you will also be responsible for the teams within our South Wales bases. You will support them in their roles, leading them to offer the best services we can.
Main duties of the job
Clinical
services include substitute prescribing for opiate dependence, harm reduction initiatives
including the provision of take home Naloxone; family planning and sexual
health screening; Blood Borne Virus testing and referral on to specialist
support.
Service users will
be offered a full range of support to assist them in overcoming their substance
use. Treatment
will be individualised
via personal recovery care planning and regular clinical assessment and reviews,
and will seek to support service
users to address their substance use as
well as to raise motivation to address wider social and health issues.
About us
Kaleidoscope is a pioneering
substance misuse treatment provider, offering evidence-based treatment and
holistic support to individuals who access its services. Staff teams work
collaboratively with partner agencies including G4S, Local Health Board, South
Wales Police, HMPPS (Her Majesties Prison and Probation Service), PHW (Public
Health Wales), and other third sector support agencies.
Working for Kaleidoscope will not only offer you a challenging role where you will make a real difference to peoples lives, but will also give you development opportunities, a good benefits package and the chance to join our expanding team.
Staff Benefits - What we Offer:
- 25 days annual leave per year, rising to 27 after 1 years service and increasing by 1 day per year worked to a maximum of 32 days annual leave.
- 8 paid bank holidays per year
- The option to 'buy' or 'sell' up to 5 days annual leave per year
- Additional leave - Wellbeing day and 'You Day'
- Simply Health - cash back healthcare plan
- Cycle to work scheme
- Electric car scheme
- Up to 5 days paid dependency leave
- Paid sick leave
- Planned parental leave
- Employee recognition schemes
Job description
Job responsibilities
Role Purpose:
The post-holder will be responsible for overseeing, co-ordinating and delivering a full range of interventions to substance users. They will provide a leadership function to ensure effective service delivery and will assist the service manager in the on-going development and promotion of the service. This will involve establishing and nurturing good relationships with a variety of stake holders and partners.
The post holder will ensure that quality services are delivered to substance using service users, ensuring that high professional standards are maintained, output targets achieved, and that the service works within established administrative and reporting procedures.
They will be responsible for supporting and line managing a multi-disciplinary clinical team of registered nurses and health care support / clinical administrators, planning and allocating work and organising rotas. This will include providing supervision, appraisals and ensuring staff work to their stated contract.
Key Duties and Responsibilities
- Manage, motivate, and lead a team.
- Deliver onsite dispensing and supervision of substitute opiate medication.
- Follow Controlled Drug Policies and Procedures.
- Provide advice, information, and guidance on the management of substance misuse to service users engaged with services.
- Undertake comprehensive clinical assessments
- Agree treatment plans with service users, and review them regularly
- Undertake drug screening (urine, fingerprint and oral).
- Ensure case notes and other statutory records are up to date and kept in accordance with Kaleidoscope policies and procedures / regional information sharing protocols
- Deliver clinical interventions, including HCV testing, HBV immunisation and naloxone training/administration where appropriate and in partnership with Local Health Board and PHW colleagues.
- Deliver subcutaneous injection of buprenorphine (Buvidal).
- Liaise with community pharmacies to ensure prescriptions are in place and monitored appropriately.
- Provide advice, support and training to GPs, pharmacists, and other professionals where appropriate.
- Participate in clinical audits and service reviews.
- Oversee the transfer of service users from secondary to primary care services, and lead with referrals / liaison with Community Mental Health Teams (CMHTs) and other community substance misuse treatment providers on leaving Kaleidoscope services.
- Actively encourage service user involvement and feedback and ensure views are considered in informing the development of the service via co-production.
- Collate and enter data electronically and contribute to service reports.
- Provide line management for registered nurses, health care support and clinical administration.
- Arrange cover during periods of sickness absence / leave.
- Adhere to systems for reporting any untoward incidents, complaints, and safeguarding issues.
- Co-ordinate and review Doctor / medical review clinics ensuring changes to treatment regimes and known risks are communicated throughout a multidisciplinary team.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Role Purpose:
The post-holder will be responsible for overseeing, co-ordinating and delivering a full range of interventions to substance users. They will provide a leadership function to ensure effective service delivery and will assist the service manager in the on-going development and promotion of the service. This will involve establishing and nurturing good relationships with a variety of stake holders and partners.
The post holder will ensure that quality services are delivered to substance using service users, ensuring that high professional standards are maintained, output targets achieved, and that the service works within established administrative and reporting procedures.
They will be responsible for supporting and line managing a multi-disciplinary clinical team of registered nurses and health care support / clinical administrators, planning and allocating work and organising rotas. This will include providing supervision, appraisals and ensuring staff work to their stated contract.
Key Duties and Responsibilities
- Manage, motivate, and lead a team.
- Deliver onsite dispensing and supervision of substitute opiate medication.
- Follow Controlled Drug Policies and Procedures.
- Provide advice, information, and guidance on the management of substance misuse to service users engaged with services.
- Undertake comprehensive clinical assessments
- Agree treatment plans with service users, and review them regularly
- Undertake drug screening (urine, fingerprint and oral).
- Ensure case notes and other statutory records are up to date and kept in accordance with Kaleidoscope policies and procedures / regional information sharing protocols
- Deliver clinical interventions, including HCV testing, HBV immunisation and naloxone training/administration where appropriate and in partnership with Local Health Board and PHW colleagues.
- Deliver subcutaneous injection of buprenorphine (Buvidal).
- Liaise with community pharmacies to ensure prescriptions are in place and monitored appropriately.
- Provide advice, support and training to GPs, pharmacists, and other professionals where appropriate.
- Participate in clinical audits and service reviews.
- Oversee the transfer of service users from secondary to primary care services, and lead with referrals / liaison with Community Mental Health Teams (CMHTs) and other community substance misuse treatment providers on leaving Kaleidoscope services.
- Actively encourage service user involvement and feedback and ensure views are considered in informing the development of the service via co-production.
- Collate and enter data electronically and contribute to service reports.
- Provide line management for registered nurses, health care support and clinical administration.
- Arrange cover during periods of sickness absence / leave.
- Adhere to systems for reporting any untoward incidents, complaints, and safeguarding issues.
- Co-ordinate and review Doctor / medical review clinics ensuring changes to treatment regimes and known risks are communicated throughout a multidisciplinary team.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- RMN/RGN with a valid NMC pin
- ILM Level five in Management/Leadership or equivalent (accredited or non-accredited Continued Professional Development).
Desirable
- Advanced clinical training
- Educated to degree level
- Independent nurse prescriber qualification
- Phlebotomy
- Demonstrable competency standard in provide intramuscular and subcutaneous injections.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- RMN/RGN with a valid NMC pin
- ILM Level five in Management/Leadership or equivalent (accredited or non-accredited Continued Professional Development).
Desirable
- Advanced clinical training
- Educated to degree level
- Independent nurse prescriber qualification
- Phlebotomy
- Demonstrable competency standard in provide intramuscular and subcutaneous injections.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
