Health and Wellbeing Nurse

Job description

Job responsibilities

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.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Experience of assessing clients healthcare needs and best practice to meet healthcare, clinical and psychosocial need.
• Experience of generation and implementation of initiatives.
• Awareness of social context of drug misuse and the wider implications of the behaviour.
• Understanding of drug misuse services available in the public and voluntary services.
• Experience of carrying out general health care assessment including BBV, and delivering health promotion/ harm reduction interventions, advice and information.

Desirable

• Awareness of national strategies impacting on drug and alcohol services
• Understanding of complexities of primary health care and the constrictions and opportunities inherent in the primary care sector.
• Understanding of the differences between the private and the public sector roles and responsibilities.
• Experience of working with audits/ awareness of the principles of audit.
• Experience of working with substance misusing clients.

Qualifications

Essential

• NMC Qualification

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Humankind Charity

Address

Recovery Steps Cumbria

Castle Street

Carlisle

CA3 8SY

Employer's website

https://humankindcharity.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)