Senior Substance Misuse Nurse

As a key member of the Substance Misuse Service, you'll lead on mental health assessments and care for residents with dual diagnosis needs. You'll work autonomously, managing your own caseload, and collaborate closely with the prison's mental health team, psychosocial services, and wider healthcare colleagues.,

• Delivering specialist clinical and mental health interventions
• Conducting comprehensive assessments and risk evaluations
• Administering medication and opioid substitution therapy
• Supporting service development and continuous improvement
• Supervising junior staff and contributing to team leadership
• Promoting trauma-informed care and health education
  
  AtNorthamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (NHFT), we're proud to be ratedOutstandingby the CQC. We're committed to innovation, inclusivity, and making a real difference in the lives of our patients and staff., NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools.We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.
NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be 'outstanding' by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth. Be Part of Something Bigger If you're ready to lead with compassion and make a lasting impact in a unique healthcare setting, we'd love to hear from you. ?Apply today and help shape the future of substance misuse care in secure services.Learn more about us atwww.nhft.nhs.ukor bit.ly/24hoursinNHFT