Band 5 Substance Misuse Nurse - Woking, United Kingdom - The Forward Trust

    The Forward Trust
    The Forward Trust Woking, United Kingdom

    2 weeks ago

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    Job summary

    Are you looking for a challenging, creative, rewarding and fast paced work environment? Do you want the opportunity to be part of a nurse-led service utilising all of your clinical and interpersonal skills?

    If yes then Prison Nursing is for you.

    Main duties of the job

    You would be working as part of a wellbeing & recovery team with a mixture of psychosocial and clinical interventions to support the prison population. This unique environment houses a large and diverse population that need your nursing abilities. There are many opportunities to develop new skills and this role is ideal for nurses seeking to broaden their knowledge and understanding of caring for high risk adults often with complex needs.

    We emphasise good collaborative working across teams and regular cross functional meetings to encourage learning and development within the team.

    About us

    Who we are?

    For more than 30 years, Forward have been working with people building positive and productive lives, whatever their past. Our services have supported thousands of people to make positive changes and build productive lives with a job, family, friends and a sense of community.

    We believe and are committed to providing opportunities to all people including those with Lived Experience we encourage applications from all background including those in recovery from addiction, co-dependency or gambling, have experience of previous offending or homelessness.

    Job description

    Job responsibilities

    As a Band 5 Nurse you will provide high-quality clinical assessment and treatment tosubstance dependant prisoners, working in partnership with HM Prison Service and all otherstakeholders.You will ensure the delivery and monitoring of high standards of nursing care and relevantsubstance misuse interventions to all service users in accordance with the standards set outin the NMC Code of Conduct.

    Person Specification

    Qualifications

    Essential

  • Current Registered General Nurse, Mental Health Nurse or Learning
  • Disability Nurse

    • Desirable

  • Mentorship Qualification

    • Experience

    Essential

  • -Suitable experience for a newly qualified nurse
  • -Knowledge of the safe storage and administration of medication
  • -Ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care and act
  • accordingly if concerns present themselves
  • -Knowledge and ability to comply with the NMC Code of Conduct
  • -Good written and verbal communication skills
  • -Strong IT Skills
  • -Ability to maintain accurate patient records within the standards
  • required locally, the Forward Trust and NMC

    • Desirable

  • -Experience of working within a secure environment
  • -Evidence of personal development since entering the NMC register
  • -Audit process and an ability to use audit tools
  • -Experience working within a recovery model