We are looking for enthusiastic, motivated, caring and creative people to come and join us and work within an exciting and fast paced environment that provides high quality addictions and recovery care to a diverse service user group.
We are offering an exciting opportunity for a Band 6 RGN or RMN to become an important, member of our highly regarded Harm Reduction Pathway within the consortium. You will be supporting our existing harm reduction interventions such as HCV clinic, needle exchanges, BBV and sexual health interventions, smoking cessation and naloxone provision whilst supporting new developments and innovations.
The Harm Reduction Nurse would be responsible for the pathway and ensuring the pathway is operating safe and effectively, delivering on all performance targets reducing drug related harm to clients and wider community.
The objective of the Harm Reduction Pathway is to minimise harms physically, mentally and socially associated to an individual’s substance use. This treatment pathway offers a lucrative opportunity to be creative with regards to health promotion.
RWCDAS provides an excellent, high-quality treatment offer to service users across the boroughs of Richmond and Wandsworth who are keen to seek support for their substance use. Our services are busy and dynamic, currently operating across 2 core sites within each borough. The service proudly also has access to wider recovery links and nodes within the local area, including those utilised by our outreach team, homeless pathway and group programme.
The post-holder will be expected to work across our treatment pathways however will largely be based within each core site and hold an interest in the traditional harms associated to substance use and be curious to the potential wider holistic implications affecting service user health and wellbeing.
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) provide the widest range of NHS mental health services in the UK as well as substance misuse services for people who are addicted to drugs and alcohol. We work closely with the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London and are part of King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre. There are very few organisations in the world that have such wide-ranging capabilities working with mental illness. Our scope is unique because it is built on three major foundations: care and treatment, science and research, and training.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Wallis McKendry Job title: Clinical Team Leader Email address: wallis.mckendry@slam.nhs.uk Telephone number: 02032283020
