JOB-20240909-f9129149

Senior Substance Misuse Nurse

Specialism: Nursing - Substance Misuse / Criminal Justice
Location: Bexley, UK
Salary: £27.00 per hour
Contract: Ongoing Locum
Schedule: Full Time

Step into a rewarding role as a Senior Substance Misuse Nurse within Bexley's Criminal Justice Services. This position offers an excellent opportunity to use your specialist skills to support individuals experiencing drug and alcohol dependence, delivering high-quality clinical care and harm-reduction interventions within a dynamic, multidisciplinary environment.

Perks and Benefits

• Full-Time Position: Immerse yourself fully in a role that provides meaning, challenge, and the chance to create lasting impact.

• Competitive Hourly Pay: Earn £27.00 per hour while enjoying the flexibility that hourly locum work provides.

• Professional Development: Benefit from diverse learning opportunities, ongoing training, and exposure to a variety of clinical environments.

• Networking Opportunities: Work closely with experienced professionals across criminal justice, health, and social care sectors.

• Healthy Work-Life Balance: Enjoy varied and rewarding work within a supportive structure that values wellbeing.

Role Purpose

As a Senior Substance Misuse Nurse, you will deliver specialist nursing care to individuals with substance-use disorders within the criminal justice pathway. You will play a key role in assessment, risk management, treatment planning, harm reduction, and supporting service users through their recovery journey.

What You Will Do

• Complete holistic assessments addressing physical, psychological, and social needs for service users with substance dependencies.

• Develop and review personalised, evidence-based care plans in partnership with service users and carers.

• Undertake risk assessments, mental health screening, and detoxification reviews.

• Deliver specialist interventions, including opioid substitution therapy assessments, detox planning, and structured harm reduction support.

• Provide BBV testing, vaccinations, overdose prevention advice, and safer injecting education.

• Identify and respond to safeguarding concerns, working closely with partner agencies across health, social care, and criminal justice.

• Manage a defined caseload as care coordinator, ensuring continuity of care and effective multi-agency collaboration.