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Our core values are ‘Be open, be compassionate and be bold’ and our team members apply these daily to achieve our mission of helping people change the direction of their lives, grow as individuals, and live life to its full potential.
Our teams are multi-disciplinary, they consist of a service manager, consultant psychiatrists, doctors, nurses, health care assistants, recovery staff, volunteers, administrators, and peer mentors, all focused on bringing the individuals using our services the best possible support & interventions.
Responsibilities
The Dual Diagnosis Nurse role is a varied one, the successful candidate will be an integral member of a multidisciplinary team, offering specialist clinical interventions to people who use our services
In our services no two days are the same. Every person who comes into our service is treated as an individual, so understanding the importance of a whole person approach along with being curious, a good listener, a clinically robust practitioner and having a flexible approach are essential skills.
Your role includes:
- Undertaking physical and mental health assessments for people who access our services
- Being involved in opiate and alcohol interventions
- Leading on harm reduction interventions
- Carrying a caseload of service users with severe and enduring mental illness who also need substance misuse intervention
We want to support you to recognise and achieve your goals:
- We hold regular national nurse and HCA forums, and you will have regular 1:1s and appraisals
- We actively support our nurses with revalidation with protected continuing professional development time, which totals up to 6 days per year.
- We also have a wide range of educational opportunities including free access to the RCNi learning platform and we pay for your NMC fee
- We offer you the opportunity to use the government backed Apprenticeship Levy fund to develop nursing practice in line with your specific role
- All our team members are encouraged to take a wellbeing hour every week and access personal well -being resources
- Our nursing pay is competitive with the NHS Agenda for Change pay bands.
We always keep the people who use our services at the heart of everything we do, and
we are committed to the active involvement of service users in their care and service delivery.
Does this sound like you?
If so, please read the job description and we look forward to reading your application soon.
This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at an enhanced level.
We will accept direct applicants only for this role
