Nurse Manager/Clinical Lead

You will manage a specialist prescribing service and provide expert clinical guidance to nursing colleagues on all aspects of substance misuse treatment. This includes advice on substitute prescribing, alcohol detoxification, withdrawal management, medication titration, controlled drug administration, overdose prevention, and other clinical safety considerations within a high-risk environment.

A key aspect of the role is ensuring comprehensive assessments are completed, waiting times are minimised, and access to treatment and psychosocial interventions is improved. You will work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams and partner agencies to ensure continuity of care and compliance with local and national guidelines.

As a senior leader within the service, you will provide clinical and managerial supervision, support staff development, facilitate decision-making processes, and contribute to service improvement initiatives. You will also play an important role in achieving organisational and commissioner targets, monitoring outcomes, and ensuring accurate reporting and governance standards are maintained.

Some flexibility may be required, including travel between sites to support service delivery and maintain continuity of care for service users.

The post holder will contribute to, and be responsible for, ensuring the most effective use of

staff, clinical and non-clinical resources. They will be responsible for the delivery and

monitoring of high standards of nursing care to patients assessed and admitted to the

service according to their clinical needs. They will work in accordance with up-to-date

evidence based practice and relevant clinical protocol and policies, in particular the

Medically Assisted Treatment Service.

The post holder will also have responsibility to implement and monitor comprehensive

assessments for those patients admitted to the service with substance misuse issues. They

will ensure reduced waiting times, improve access throughout the service for all patients in

need of a substance misuse treatment/psychosocial programmes and ensure continuity of

care in line with local and national guidelines.

The post holder will manage a specialist prescribing service and offer nursing advice

regarding substance misuse related issues to nursing colleagues in the assessment,

planning, implementation and evaluation of the plan of care for patients referred to this

specialist service. This includes advice on treatment options including the full array of

substitute prescribing, symptomatic management, the management of alcohol withdrawals

and detoxification, advice on titration, dispensing of medication including controlled drugs,

and managing all aspects of clinical safety e.g. potential overdose, pertinent to a high risk

environment.

The post holder will be responsible for contributing to the targets set by Forward Trust and

the local commissioners. One of the key targets will be measuring outcomes, so cooperative working relationships with other partner agencies is vital to this role. Some

flexibility of delivery may be required to enable continuity of care for the client group. There

will be occasions when the post holder will be expected to cover for the SMS Manager in

their absence.

This post holder will also be responsible for nurturing the culture of continued learning and

service development.

We are The Forward Trust, the social enterprise with charitable status that empowers people to break the often interlinked cycles of crime and addiction to move forward with their lives. For more than 25 years we have been working with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past. We believe that anyone is capable of lasting change. Our services have supported thousands of people to make positive changes and build productive lives with a job, family, friends and a sense of community.

We are committed to our cause and the work we carry out as a charity. Equally the wellbeing and the employees who work for us are also important. Joining us an employee, we will offer you the following benefits -

Please note that we may close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.

Experience

Qualifications

Essential: - Registered Nurse (RMN, RGN, or RNLD) with current NMC registration.