# Clinical Nurse Specialist (Addictions)

**Company**: Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: London
**Salary**: £38488.00 to £46852.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking a Clinical Nurse Specialist (Addictions) to provide safe, effective, and person-centred nursing care to individuals experiencing drug and alcohol dependency. The successful candidate will undertake clinical assessments, support treatment and medication management, deliver harm reduction interventions, coordinate care, and promote recovery while ensuring compliance with professional standards and clinical governance requirements.

**Main Responsibilities**

- Clinical Assessment and Care Planning: Undertake comprehensive nursing assessments, identify health needs, assess risks, and develop individualised care plans.

- Treatment and Medication Management: Support opioid substitution treatment (OST), monitor clients' progress, and ensure safe medication management in line with clinical protocols.

- Harm Reduction and Health Promotion: Deliver harm reduction interventions, including naloxone training, overdose prevention, BBV screening, and safer drug and alcohol advice.

- Care Coordination: Work closely with doctors, GPs, recovery practitioners, and partner agencies to ensure coordinated care and appropriate referrals.

- Clinical Documentation and Governance: Maintain accurate clinical records, participate in clinical reviews and audits, follow safeguarding procedures, and work in accordance with NMC standards.

- Health Monitoring and Interventions: Monitor clients' physical and mental health, identify clinical concerns, and escalate appropriately.

- Safeguarding and Risk Management: Identify and respond to safeguarding concerns, clinical deterioration, and risks to clients or others.

**Overall Purpose**

To support individuals affected by substance misuse to access appropriate treatment, reduce harm, improve their physical and psychological health, and achieve sustained recovery.

**Person Specification**

- Education and Qualifications: RGN, RMN, Evidence of completing preceptorship or continuing personal development and post-registration training in care, assessment, and treatment of Mental Health and Substance Misuse Service Users.

- Previous Experience: Experience in undertaking Risk Assessments and Risk Management, care planning.

- Skills and Knowledge: Good communication skills (verbal and written), ability to work autonomously, an appreciation of the range of issues that may affect substance misusers, an understanding of harm minimisation and health promotion in the specific context of substance misuse, IT literacy: competent using Microsoft Word and able to report clinical activity data on patient information systems.

- Attitudes, Aptitudes, Personal Characteristics: Able to build constructive relationships with warmth and empathy, using good communication skills, ability to treat service users with respect and dignity at all times, adopting a culturally sensitive approach, non-judgmental attitude to client group, committed to multidisciplinary teamwork, committed to User and carer involvement, flexible and responsive to a developing service.

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## Skills

### Required
- Microsoft Word
- Risk Assessments
- care planning
- substance misuse
- harm minimisation
- health promotion
- communication skills

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