252560- Charge Nurse – Addiction Recovery Team

Job Description

About The Organisation

Here at NHS Lanarkshire, we put the patient at the heart of everything we do. Each colleague within the organisation plays a key role in how we deliver our healthcare services.

We proudly serve a population of 655,000 across rural and urban communities in both North and South Lanarkshire. NHS Lanarkshire is comprised of Acute Services (which currently provide hospital based services over 3 main sites), Corporate & Property & Support Services, North and South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnerships which provide integrated primary healthcare and social care services to local communities and surrounding areas.

The Role

12 month fixed term post to support ASK and ACT pilot and based within ART

We are seeking a band 6 nurse to support the ASK and ACT pilot. The nurse will be aligned to the Addiction Recovery Team supporting delivery of the pilot and continuing to be a band 6 nurse with in ART. The role will involve lone working, innovative thinking/planning and building strong relationship with partners daily. You will support people identified via the hub with addiction issues, mental health assessment and supports related to a band 6 role in accordance with Job description.

The ‘Ask & Act’ duties proposed in the Housing (Scotland) Bill require public bodies to ask about a person’s housing situation early – and take action to prevent homelessness before it happens. The Scottish Government’s Homelessness Prevention Pilot Fund (up to £4 million) supports a range of bodies including Local Authorities, Health Boards, the police service, and third sector organisations experienced in preventing homelessness.

The Test and Learn Prevention Pilots (‘ask and act’) application gives us the opportunity to work together and identify risks early and intervene before crisis occurs. This proposal sets out how Socialudo can support North Lanarkshire’s ambitious pilot to develop a community hub model that brings housing, health, social work, third sector, and lived experience voices together under one roof to deliver truly person-centred support.

NL REACH will have critical public services co-located, providing collaborative support to assist individuals and families in crisis or at risk of homelessness. The Hub Co-Ordinator will organise cases to be discussed at the Integrated Response Group (IRG) each morning, where services can agree on the most suitable and effective input to prevent homelessness and tackle root causes. Planning Services will have access to key systems and will ensure that prevention plans are achievable and appropriate. Supporting Services will then focus on sustainability, advocacy, empowerment, and long-term resilience, to ensure the prevention plan has the best opportunity to be effective.

Please note this is a fixed term post for 12 months. Where a post only has temporary funding and an existing member of NHS Lanarkshire staff wishes to apply, this will be treated as a secondment. The employee MUST already have written agreement from their line manager to be released on a secondment before applying for the post.

In this key role, you will:

• Apply values based practice principles to inform decision making in all aspects of care and treatment of clients / patients and in interactions with colleagues
• Responsibility for the implementation of the framework of the Nursing Process to triage referrals and undertake person centred assessment of clients / patients in accordance with agreed operational policies for the defined clinical area, ensuring provision of clinical supervision of Registered Nurses undertaking assessments in agreement with the team leader / senior charge nurse or practitioner.
• Be fully compliant with the NMC Code of Professional Conduct and the other relevant guidance documents, which support and maintain standards of professional practice for nurses and midwives
• Assist the team leader / senior charge nurse or practitioner in implementing and evidencing the Clinical Governance Framework and Staff Governance Framework within their sphere of responsibility
• Actively contribute to the development of an atmosphere and environment, which promotes and facilitates learning, regularly liaising with Practice Education Facilitators and Clinical and Professional Development Nurses to support learning and practice development in the clinical area

What You’ll Bring:

• Registered Nurse with valid NMC Registration
• Educated to/working towards/operating at Degree Level
• Post graduate expertise within speciality / area of practice that demonstrates the required breadth of knowledge required to lead safety, effectively and efficiently.
• Comprehensive knowledge of clinical guidelines and standards within the speciality / area of practice.
• Specialist knowledge and experience of relevant conditions, pathology, policies and procedures associated with the speciality/area of practice ensuring that the level of expertise can be utilised to deliver leadership within speciality / area of practice.
• Crisis/Community posts – a full, valid UK/EU/EEA drivers licence

What we Offer

As a valued employee of NHS Lanarkshire, you can enjoy an extensive range of benefits including:

• Annual Leave – 35 days including public holidays
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Annual incremental salary progression
• Paid sick leave increasing with length of service
• NHS discounts and more.

NHS Lanarkshire is dedicated to building a diverse workforce where everyone can thrive, develop, and succeed based on their skills, knowledge, and talent – regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, or care experience or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another.

Care experienced applicants include those who have lived with foster parents, kinship carers, or in residential/secure children’s settings.