Description
As a Non-Medical Prescriber at Change Grow Live, you will be an integral member of a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency team delivering recovery-orientated alcohol and drug intervention services.
The role involves offering care for presenting clients, initiating prescribing of and/or making amendments to prescriptions of opiate and/or alcohol substitute treatments and other related medications, and taking a lead role in developing the prescribing clinic.
You will be required to:
- Assess, diagnose, plan, implement, and evaluate treatment and interventions and care for service users
- Clinically assess service user needs and plan clinical care accordingly
- Diagnose and manage on an individual needs basis, integrating both drug and non-drug based treatment methods into a management plan, in conjunction with the Recovery Coordinator
- Identify and assess suitability of service users for in-patient alcohol and opioid detoxification as appropriate
- Proactively review and manage clinical treatment plans of the service user
- Prescribe and review medication for therapeutic effectiveness appropriate to service user needs and in accordance with evidence-based practice and national and local protocols, and within scope of practice
- Work with service users to support concordance to prescribed treatments
- Provide information and advice on prescribed, illicit and over-the-counter medication, including side-effects and interactions
- Prioritise health problems and intervene appropriately to assist the service user in complex, urgent or emergency situations seeking immediate advice and direction from the Clinical Lead if needed
- Assess, identify and refer patients presenting with mental health needs
- Assess, update and refer service users for BBV vaccination and immunisation programmes
- Support service users to adopt health promotion strategies that promote healthy lifestyles
The salary for this role is £48,987.04 to £54,663.24 a year, with Inner London Weighting (£4,236.47).
The working pattern is part-time, with a fixed-term contract for 11 months.
Benefits include opportunities for growth and development, a wellbeing hour every week, half a day a month CPD time, and active support with revalidation.