# Dual Diagnosis Nurse

**Company**: Change Grow Live
**Location**: Barnet
**Job type**: temporary
**Salary**: £38114.53 to £44469.24
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

Change Grow Live is seeking a Dual Diagnosis Nurse to support people with multi-faceted issues related to the impact of substance use on their physical and mental health. As a Dual Diagnosis Nurse, you will be an integral member of our multidisciplinary team, offering specialist clinical interventions to people who use our services.

The salary for this role is £38,114.53 to £44,469.24 per year.

**Main duties of the job**

- Provide bespoke interventions for identified service users, with the aim of engaging people in the most appropriate service for their needs, reducing re-presentations and bringing about positive outcomes.

- Support the development of joint working protocols with mental health services and substance misuse services.

- Review service users presenting to services and undertake specialist mental health assessments as required.

- Identify the training and support needs of colleagues working with this group of service users and deliver training or provide support as appropriate.

- Improve communication and referral pathways between substance misuse and mental health teams and other services involved in the care and treatment of people with dual diagnosis.

**Benefits**

- Regular national nurse and HCA forums

- Regular 1:1s and appraisals

- Protected continuing professional development time, which totals up to 6 days per year

- Free access to the RCNi learning platform

- Payment of NMC fee

- Opportunity to use the government-backed Apprenticeship Levy fund to develop nursing practice

- Wellbeing hour every week and access to personal wellbeing resources

**Requirements**

- Experience of working in substance misuse and/or mental health settings

- Experience of working with people with co-morbid mental health and substance misuse problems

- Knowledge of and skills in appropriate therapeutic interventions for working with people with dual diagnosis

- Qualification in Mental Health Treatment

- Relevant registered qualification in Mental Health

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## Skills

### Required
- substance misuse
- mental health
- dual diagnosis
- therapeutic interventions

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