Community Nurse

Job summary

Northumberland Recovery Partnership have an exciting opportunity for a band 5 registered nurse to join our team.

The team consists of a well-established mix of professionals that work collaboratively to deliver individualised care. The role involves individualised clinical assessment, care planning, formulation, and collaborative working across the multi-agency team.

The applicant will be expected to demonstrate leadership within the team, providing supervision and supporting students.

The post holder will represent the Trust in a number of forums and develop links with external agencies to ensure that service users have clear pathways into appropriate services.

You will have excellent communication, time management and organisational skills.

You must have a strong commitment to the delivery of high-quality safe care.

You should have an interest in working within a busy and challenging environment as well as the ability to demonstrate a warm, person centred approach to care.

You will work in a highly supported environment and will be provided with training opportunities to further develop your knowledge and skills.

Main duties of the job

Physical health Nurse

The opportunity to work within our physical health pathway

The role entails working with those affected by substance and alcohol misuse that may have a range of physical health needs alongside. The role will be to provide safe and effective interventions, harm reduction advice and use of psychosocial interventions to support service users to consider and achieve recovery.

The post holder will work within a multi-disciplinary team to provide care to those affected by substance use.

The post holder will complete comprehensive physical health assessments in line with Trust standards and offer appropriate interventions, onward referrals and monitoring of health. Your role will be pivotal in addressing health inequalities within areas of deprivation, delivering essential care to those who's physical health is negatively impacted by substance and alcohol misuse.

About us

We aim to attract and retain a diverse, talented and committed workforce, who are caring and compassionate, and therefore able to meet the demands of the modern NHS now and in the future. In return we can offer a dynamic working environment in which to build a career.

NHS Employees identified as at risk of compulsory redundancy and those eligible for the NENC Re-Deployment careers hub will receive prior consideration.