Substance Misuse Nurse RMN / RGN – Birmingham
Come and join us and support us to help people transformtheir lives.
Salary: In the region of £35,000- £46,000 depending onexperience
Our Charity
St Andrews is a mental health Charity and our purpose is toinspire hope for those living with complex mental health needs. We arelooking to a future that ensures everyone with complex mental health needs isheard, valued and has hope for their future.
Main duties of the job
The Role
This is an exciting new opportunity for Birmingham, offeringthe chance to shape and grow an emerging service that will make a realdifference to the lives of our patients. We are looking for a passionate andskilled Registered Practitioner with postregistration experience workingtherapeutically with service users to address patterns of alcohol and substancemisuse.
In this role, you will be an integral part of our positive,committed multidisciplinary clinical team on the Birmingham sitedeliveringhighquality assessments, consultations and interventions (both group and 1:1)for individuals experiencing substance misuse challenges. This includes those with cooccurring mentalhealth difficulties or longterm physical health conditions. You will be involved in providing thepsychotherapeutic treatments and have knowledge of the pharmacologicaltreatments that support recovery.
You will work collaboratively with patients, families,carers and a wide range of professionals, including the wardbased MDT,ensuring every person receives compassionate, coordinated and effective care.
Your expertise in related risk assessment will enable you todevelop thoughtful, personcentred treatment and risk management plans thatsupport safe care, promote recovery and contribute to wellplanned, hopefuldischarge pathways.
About us
As part of our forwardthinking service, you will play an active role in championing quality improvements, shaping innovative approaches to care and contributing to service development within St Andrews and the wider Reach Out collaborative. This is a role where your ideas, enthusiasm and expertise can truly influence the future of how we support people towards better outcomes.
You can achieve more at St Andrews Healthcare
St Andrews Healthcare is a charity providing specialist mental healthcare services. We work in partnership with a number of NHS, voluntary, educational and research organisations to deliver a range of specialist inpatient and community mental healthcare services, education and research that helps to improve the lives of people with complex mental health needs.
Birmingham
Our Birmingham site is a thriving member of the Reach Outprovider collaborative alongside our NHS partners of Birmingham and SolihullNHS Foundation Trust, Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust andMidlands Partnership NHS Trust. Situated 3 miles from the City Centre in the southof the City.
Job responsibilities
Reward
- Pension
- Sickness policy on par with the NHS
- Access to the Blue Light Card and HealthService Discounts schemes
- 27 days annual leave (plus bank holidays),increasing to 33 days after 10 years’ service
- Life cover
- Electric Car leasescheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Healthcare cash plan
- Free parking
- Paid DBSapplication
- Access to free vocational qualifications
Person Specification
Qualifications
- Qualified Nurse RMN / RGN – Registered NMC
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Depending on experienceFrom £35,000 – £46,000 per annum,depending on experience
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