Nurse - Health and Wellbeing - Harlow, United Kingdom - Via Westminster Drug Project
Description
Job Summary
The Role
We are looking for an experienced and enthusiastic candidate to join our team. This is an excellent opportunity to work with people who are affected by offending and substance misuse within a residential rehabilitative environment. Via Passmores House deliver high quality services including specialist prescribing services, rapid access to treatment, and other health and wellbeing interventions to better equip individuals to improve their physical and mental health. This position requires a Nurse with appropriate and valid registration with the NMC and experience of working with individuals who use alcohol or substances.
We are looking for Nurses with a minimum of 12 months substance misuse experience, who would like to gain knowledge in the developing area of detoxification from alcohol, the new wave of psychoactive drugs as well as opiate detoxification and stabilisation.
Our clients present with complex needs and a multitude of both physical and psychological challenges. We are offer excellent in house training as well as the chance of further courses once the probationary period is completed satisfactorily.
Good communication skills both written and verbal are essential. Confidence to work as part of a multidisciplinary team with an interest and commitment in group work. Participation in the units group programme is a requirement as team working is essential.
The Service
Passmores House is a residential recovery community for people with a dependency on drugs and/or alcohol, we offer residential detoxification and stabilisation packages, as well a full rehabilitation programme, all built around the individual. The house is based in a beautifully renovated and historic building, set in a leafy park close to the transport hub of Harlow in Essex.
Location
Passmores House - Harlow, Essex
To see the generous range of benefits we offer at Via including 30 days annual leave for all new starters, our health and wellbeing initiatives, financial perks and development opportunities – visit our Benefits Package
For an informal chat about the role please contact Darren O'Meara , Service Manager via
The closing date for applications is Friday 3 May at midnight.
We only accept applications via using our application form, sorry we don't accept CVs. For guidance on how to complete the application visit . Please submit your application as soon as possible as we may close adverts at any time if we receive a sufficient number of applications.
Via welcomes enquiries from everyone, and we value diversity in our workplace. Our commitment to promoting diversity and developing a workplace environment where all staff are treated with dignity and respect is central to our recruitment process.
We're a Disability Confident Employer and are committed to the employment and career development of disabled people. We offer an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for our jobs, please confirm in the personal statement part of our application form that you are applying under this scheme.
Appointment to all our posts are subject to satisfactory completion of our safeguarding checks including DBS and we follow safer recruiting principles.