Health and Wellbeing Nurse

Job summary

Harm Reduction, Health and Wellbeing Nurse for the substance misuse service in Thurrock Essex.

Working closely with the clinical lead to support and develop the health and wellbeing offer across Thurrock.

At the forefront of all our work to ensure N&S , testing and screening services including general health and BBVs are carried out safely and routinely as part of the clients care package and to emphasis harm reduction message.

Main duties of the job

• With the Harm Reduction Coordinator and Clinical Lead - support and develop the Health and Wellbeing offer across Thurrock.
• Work with pharmacies and needle exchange clients to ensure Health issues are referred/signposted or treated appropriately.
• Link with all Hepatitis C project staff local and national to support appropriate clients and broadcast BBV best practice..
• With the Clinical Lead, the post holder will support the development of Inclusion's offer of Health and Wellbeing interventions.
• Provide Health and Wellbeing advice/referral/treatment and signposting across Thurrock.
• Promote safer injecting/harm minimisation/over dose awareness and training to clients, staff and other professionals across Thurrock.
• Support nursing students in their placements where needed and provide learning opportunities.

Report appropriate incidents and complete SI reports when requested by Clinical lead.

About us

Inclusion prides itself on being a very supportive and "inclusive" employer. Our staff regularly comment on the range and quality of internal / external training made available to them throughout their career with us as well as the quality of professional supervision.

We recognise and have met the challenges as we come out of the pandemic but we also embraced the range of opportunities that arose in the ways of flexible working, digital technologies and a much great involvement of service users with their treatment!

As a specialist service within the larger MPFT trust we enjoy all the benefits of this well established and recently awarded University status Trust.