# Community Addictions Nurse

**Company**: South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: Erith
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: entry
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: Depending on experience
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

Bexley Community Drug and Alcohol Service (Pier Road Project) are looking for enthusiastic, motivated, caring, and creative nurses from any discipline to come and join us. You will be working within an exciting and fast-paced environment that provides high-quality addictions and recovery care to a diverse service user group.

The service is a partnership between NHS and voluntary services, and we work as a single service to get the highest quality of outcomes for residents over the age of 18 in Bexley.

We are looking to recruit nurses from any discipline into a Band 5 developmental post or experienced Band 6 to be core members of the multi-disciplinary team, participating in the provision of on-going assessments, care planning, treatment, and support of people with drug and alcohol issues to promote health, independence, and recovery.

**Main duties of the job**

- Lead the clinical management of a care package to individuals who use our services, as a member of a multi-disciplinary team.

- Co-ordinate and monitor the delivery of person-centred healthcare to a designated group of people who use our services, using complex clinical decision making where appropriate and responding to changes in presentation/situation appropriately.

- Deliver individual and group therapy utilising CBT skills.

- Ensure provision of the necessary physical care to help people who use our services.

- Harm reduction interventions.

**Benefits**

- Competitive salary depending on experience

- Permanent, full-time position

**Requirements**

- BSc Hons in nursing or Diploma in nursing - any discipline

- Evidence of continuing professional development and training

- Experience carrying out patient assessments and developing care plans

- Experience maintaining accurate clinical records and documentation

- Experience of liaison with statutory and non-statutory services

- Experience administering medications safely and accurately

## Skills

### Required
- CBT skills
- harm reduction interventions
- clinical decision making
- person-centred healthcare

### Nice to have
- Diploma or degree level qualification in addictions or related area of practice
- Non-Medical Prescriber A/I
- experience of working in the community

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