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Health & Wellbeing Nurse

Via

Chester,, CH3 5AFView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)

Salary

£36,151 to £42,321

Contract

Permanent

Hours

Not specified

Closing date

4 November 2026

15 days left

Job description

What were looking for This is an exciting opportunity to join a fast-paced and growing organisation. Were looking for a Health and Wellbeing Nurse to ...

To deliver excellent drug and alcohol services to those who use our services and their significant others, including family members friends and carers, to facilitate positive outcomes.

Where indicated, undertake community alcohol detoxification, support Opiate detoxification and titration in the community and refer for specialist inpatient services including liaising with hospital and inpatient unit staff. Support outreach work across the borough, particularly around alcohol misuse.

Lead on Harm Reduction approaches within the service, including helping to reduce the spread of BBVs via testing and immunization schemes.

Deliver general healthcare support, including Wound Care, ECGs, healthcare assessments, and other similar activity.

Undertake basic life support/ anaphylaxis training so you are confident and competent to manage a medical emergency including the administration of emergency drugs.

Key duties and activities of the role

Provide high quality, person centred, low threshold services, responding to the

individual and diverse needs and preferences of people and their significant others.

Deliver evidence-based clinical and psychosocial one-to-one and group interventions

as part of an effectively integrated care package. Take an assertive approach to

service user disengagement.

Deliver harm reduction advice, guidance and education. To include blood borne virus

interventions (screening, vaccination and treatment access), overdose prevention

including naloxone programs, health and wellbeing screening brief and facilitated

signposting and referral to partner services, including primary care.

Enable people to access education and employment services and health, wellbeing

and recovery support activities and to signpost to other available services.

Support students, volunteers, peer mentors and service user representatives to take

an active part in Via services.

Identify risks and take appropriate action in accordance with local, national and

organisational Safeguarding policies, contributing to multi-disciplinary review

meetings.

Maintain accurate and timely records using the designated case management system

in compliance with Via Information Governance policies and procedures.

Work flexibly, including across multiple sites and peripatetically when required.

Who we are

At Via, our mission is to provide the best health and wellbeing support to as many people as possible, helping them to change their lives for the better.

Last year, we supported over 11,000 people across the UK affected by alcohol and drug use. Everything we do is driven by our values:

Care. Care for people is at the heart of everything we do.

Be human. We are accessible, genuine and humble. Always learning.

Do the right thing. Were open, honest and inclusive. We get things done.

We want to recruit the very best talent. We believe in nurturing a positive workplace culture where our colleagues feel valued, recognised, empowered, and supported.

If you're someone who listens deeply, approaches people without judgement, and wants to make a real impact on recovery, wed be excited to hear from you.

Deadline: 04/11/26 at midnight

Salary: £ 36,151 to £42,321, depending on experience

Vacancy type: Permanent

Working hours: 37.5hrs hours per week,

Our Clinical Lead/Portfolio Lead Nurse is happy to talk through this role, what a typical day might look like, development opportunities, and Vias national network. You can reach Caroline Hughes by email Caroline.Hughes@viaorg.uk or Jane Murphy by email Jane.Murphy@viaorg.uk

Experience

Essential

  • Person specification for the role
  • Passion for and understanding of working with substance misuse services or with other socially excluded or vulnerable groups. With a proven ability to meet deadlines, record information accurately and in a timely way and to work calmly under pressure.
  • Great team working, communication and interpersonal skills. Demonstrating a highly
  • cooperative approach to supporting colleagues and the whole team to deliver Service objectives, as well as in working directly with people and their significant others.
  • Demonstrable ability to deliver an excellent quality level of service to people with complex needs. This includes the ability to work with people on a one-to one basis or to facilitate group sessions, to be able to complete assessments, care and support plans, risk assessments and to complete case recording to a high standard and in a timely way.
  • Good IT skills including use of Microsoft Office programs and digital meeting platforms and Case Management Systems like Nebula, System One or Theseus.
  • A demonstrable understanding of the Health and Social Care regulatory requirements of the Care Quality Commission (CQC), National Institute for Clinical Excellence standards for Health and Social Care and any other relevant bodies.
  • Demonstrable commitment to working in partnership with other professionals such as criminal justice agencies, community groups and other stakeholders to achieve good
  • outcomes for people.
  • The ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, in different settings (e.g. written, spoken, presented, etc) and to different groups of people.

Qualifications

Essential: - Registered nurse (RMN, RGN or Learning Disabilities Nurse) with current active PIN; - number.

How to apply

Applications are handled entirely by the employer on the original advert. We do not collect CVs, supporting statements or application data.

Provenance

Source

NHS Jobs

First seen

8 October 2026

Last checked

9 October 2026

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