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Main area
Addictions
Grade
Band 6
Contract
12 months (Fixed Term/ Secondment 12 Months)
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Long Days; Weekends and Nights)
Job ref
196-NM12577
Employer
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Guys & St Thomas Trust
Town
London
Salary
£44,806 - £53,134 p.a inc HCA
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
27/02/2025 23:59

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Deputy Clinical Nurse Specialist - Addictions Nursing

Band 6

Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.

Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.

Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions. 

Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.

In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.

We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.

Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.

The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.

We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.



Job overview

The Addictions Care Team  provides integrated 24/7 clinically effective, efficient and high quality care to patients at Guys and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust who are affected by substance misuse.

Our service also includes the Addictions Clinical Care Suite  that provides elective admissions for complex substance misuse management. This aspect of the service accepts referrals from community substance misuse teams from across the 32 boroughs of London. 24/7 Specialist Care provision.

The post holder will be responsible for the assessment, planning and provision of specialist Addictions nursing advice and carries out specialist nursing procedures. The post holder will provide clinical supervision to other staff, students and may undertake research, lead clinical audits in own specialist area. Ensuring the safety and well-being of service users, and always working in a manner that promotes dignity and human rights through the adoption of person centered care principles.

Closing date: 27/02/2025 at Midnight

Interview date: 14/03/2025

 

Main duties of the job

An exciting 12 Months Fixed/Secondment opportunity has arisen for an Addictions Deputy Clinical Nurse Specialist, to join our well-established Addictions Care Team.   

This is an exciting time to join the team as we have expanded to include a new innovative 24hrs/7 day’s inpatients GSTT Addiction Clinical Care Suite (ACCS) . The  ACCS admits patients requiring medically assisted withdrawal / stabilisation from drugs and / or alcohol. The post holder will be expected to work across Addictions Care Team (ACT) and Addictions Clinical Care Suite (ACCS) a service that provides 24hr care. The role will involve working a shift pattern of Long Days, Weekends, Bank Holidays and Nights.

The post-holder will need to be a Registered Mental Health Nurse (RMN) and or a Registered General Nurse (RGN), with a passion and commitment for working with patients who use or misuse alcohol and drugs. It’s essential for the post holder to have some relevant experience either in acute hospital setting or the community of managing patients affected by alcohol and drugs who require treatment including detoxification.

The role will provide comprehensive alcohol and drugs holistic assessments, delivering brief /extended interventions, harm minimisation, psychosocial interventions, monitoring & supervising inpatients detoxification, liaison with family/carers and external community substance misuse services, including other health and social care professionals.

Working for our organisation

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.

We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Job responsibilities:

  • Independently manage a group of patients within the Addictions specialty whilst working as part of the multidisciplinary team, delivering specialised individualised and personalised direct patient care.
  • Demonstrate appropriate practice and specialist addictions advice in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of patient care. This includes history taking, physical examination and the requesting of agreed diagnostic procedures/clinical.
  • Responsible for the correct administration of prescribed medication including transfusion of blood and blood products.
  • Be responsible for assessing and recognising emergencies in the Addictions specialty. 
  • Act as an advocate for patients within the department, to ensure a patient orientated approach to the delivery of care and to meet standards within the NHS Plan and other relevant.
  • Ensure that patients’ receive high quality clinical care and a good patient experience, having regard for their customs, religious beliefs and doctrines.
  • To provide leadership, support and guidance to staff in monitoring the planning delivery and evaluation of individualised specialist.
  • Is wholly accountable for his / her practice in line with the NMC code of professional conduct and takes every reasonable opportunity to sustain and improve his / her knowledge and professional.
  • Ensure safe and effective care for complex patients requiring advanced specialist clinical skills and responsible for carrying out specialist nursing procedures.
  • To be responsible, for maintaining a safe environment for patients, visitors and other staff within the clinical.
  • Ensure that sensitive patient records are stored.
  • Ensures the cultural and spiritual needs of patients are recognised and accommodated within resources.
  • Support and enable patients and carers to make informed decisions relating to their treatment. 
  • Participate in case conferences in relation to the management of patients.
  • Ensure staff take precautions to minimise the risk of cross infection in relation to the safe disposal of body fluids (including blood).
  • A key member of the multidisciplinary team in supporting patients and their carers during the delivery of bad news.
  • Assess educational and information needs for patients and families.
  • To be an effective communicator with patients/carers/families regarding disease treatment.
  • Promote high quality clinical care, and assist in the development of the specialist addictions service, through the use of evidence based practice and clinical standards.
  • Provide a seamless, high quality service from referral through to assessment, diagnosis, treatment.

Please see attached job description for full details.

Person specification

Qualifications/Education

Essential criteria
  • BSC/1st Degree/Diploma Nursing qualification, registered with NMC.
  • Evidence of professional/clinical knowledge/experience in assessing and treating patients who present with alcohol or drug problems.
Desirable criteria
  • Post registration qualification in drugs and alcohol

Previous Experience

Essential criteria
  • Experienced and competent in the management of patients with addictions
  • Experience working with patients who use/misuse alcohol or drugs
  • Experience of teaching/ assessing/ supervising others in addictions.
Desirable criteria
  • Previous post registration experience or CPD training in Alcohol or substance misuse

Skills And Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate specialist addictions care delivered to patients/clients and give relevant advice/information to patients and relatives.
  • Ability to administer prescribed medication including transfusion of blood and blood products
  • Good communication skills and ability to deal with sensitive information. To include dealing with distressed relatives, care of terminally ill & other challenging situations
  • Demonstrates Specialist Addictions Expertise Underpinned by Theory
  • Evidence of involvement and leadership in teaching and mentoring learners

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Bibiana Nyariri
Job title
ACCS Ward Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07731514141
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