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Substance Misuse Practitioner
Location: Isle of Sheppey HMP Elmley and HMP Swaleside
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full time, 37.5 hours per week
Salary: £39,338-£46,962 per annum, dependent on experience
We are proud to be working with Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust who have recently been voted by the Sunday Times as one of the Best Places to Work 2023.
Are you ready to unlock your potential within a challenging, creative and fast paced work environment? Do you want to escape your current job role and work with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past? Now is the time to break into offender healthcare and develop your career.
As part of the South West Prison Healthcare contract awarded to Oxleas NHS trust in 2022, they are now able to expand their recruitment and are looking for compassionate, knowledgeable and motivated Pharmacy Technicians to join their friendly team based in Bristol.
The healthcare team have a real impact on promoting health and well-being to those in prison and Oxleas pride themselves on using skills and strategies that instil hope for patients future resettlement back into the community. Oxleas deliver Mental Health, Physical Health, Pharmacy and Clinical Substance Misuse in an integrated healthcare delivery model to provide effective and responsive care to improve wellbeing and support better outcomes in the future.
As part of the team, you will enjoy all the benefits of NHS AfC employment (inc pension) with the opportunity to work within a forward-thinking service, who encourage career and personal development to all staff to increase their clinical and interpersonal skills.
What will you be doing?
As a Substance Misuse Practitioner, you will be responsible for providing specialist substance misuse care to offenders and to work as part of an integrated and multi-disciplinary health service. You will be delivering a range of specialist interventions at primary and secondary care level which will include the following:
Referral management, screening assessment, triage and evidence-based interventions
One-to-one and group-work facilitation
Assertive outreach interventions
Managing a mixed and challenging caseload
What do you need?
- To be a Registered Nurse with relevant post registration training in one of the following areas:
- Substance misuse/dual diagnosis
- Psychological therapies
- RCGP Part 1 Certificate
- Minimum of 2 years of working post qualification as a Registered Nurse
- Experience in prison or secure settings
- Post qualification experience in working within substance misuse services
What next?
If this is a role youre interested in, and you want to join the team and help make a difference, please click on the apply button. You will be redirected to a page where you can enter your details, answer a few questions about your experience, and attach your CV. Someone will then be in touch with you to provide you with next steps.
Interested? Click apply now!
