Alcohol Liaison Nurse-DALT

Job summary

Alcohol Liaison Nurse - Band 6

Emergency Department and Acute Medicine Directorate

Do you have experience in caring for patients with substance misuse? Are you looking to develop as a nurse specialist and manage your own patient caseload? Then our Alcohol Liaison Nurse post may be the next step on your career.

The alcohol liaison team provides timely and responsive drug and alcohol assessment, screening, interventions and management advice with onward referral to and close liaison with, local community services. We provide support for medical and nursing staff on the effective management of substance withdrawal or stabilization within our the Emergency Department and acute wards.

Main duties of the job

Providing a screening and brief intervention service to clients who have been identified as drinking to a level that is assessed as being potentially harmful to their health.Assess all clients referred from ED and inpatient wards/clinics and provideexpert advice and signposting to community substance misuse services.Work closely with local specialist services providing provision for people with alcohol dependency.Be able to communicate and negotiate in complex situations, and have theability to make clear autonomous and clinically safe decisions related to patientcare.The post holder will be required to work flexible hours, which will include some

You might be ask to work weekend days occasionally as we are working towards becoming a 7 day a week service.

About us

With nearly9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, they are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.Their main site, St George's Hospital in Tooting - one of the country's principal teaching hospitals - is shared with St George's, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George's Hospital also hosts the St George's, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.As well as acute hospital services, they provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases. The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre.