Lead Nurse - New Glasgow Alcohol and Drug Crisis Service

Glasgow
Glasgow Alcohol and Drug Crisis Service
Substance Misuse
Lead Nurse Band 7
 
£37,570 - £44,688

Job Purpose 

  1. The Senior Nurse will work closely with the Service Manager, Lead Nurse, Medical Officer and Clinical and Care Governance Lead to ensure the delivery of the Glasgow Drug and Alcohol Crisis Service is of a consistently high quality and to assist individuals towards realising their full potential
  2. To deliver excellent clinical practise at an advanced level to meet the needs of a range of highly complex people, including independent prescribing and advanced clinical assessment.
  3. To lead and coordinate the nursing team to ensure compassionate, evidence based nursing interventions.
  4. To manage the clinical aspects of implementation of new clinical developments within the service as required.
  5. To effectively manage and develop nursing staff ensuring participation in line management, clinical supervision and continuing professional development of nursing staff.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES/TASKS

1.         Service Delivery

 




  • Ensure a Citizenship approach to delivering services.Citizenship is defined by a persons connection to the 5 R’s: Rights, Responsibilities, Roles, Relationships, resources and their sense of belonging
  • Assess, diagnose, plan; implement and evaluate treatment/interventions and care for individuals within the service.
  • Prescribe and review medication appropriate to individuals needs, in accordance with evidence based practise, local and national protocols and within scope of practise.
  • Ensure the service clinical model is safe and effective in line with organisational policies.
  • Lead on the development of the clinical service, maintaining high standards which adhere to organisational policy, aims and objectives.
  • Ensure that the dignity and privacy of individuals is respected and maintained at all times.
  • Assist individuals to exercise their rights and to make informed choices.

  • To ensure compliance with Turning Point Scotland's operational policies and procedures.
  • To assist the Service Manager by networking effectively with workers from other agencies who are involved with service users, purchaser's monitoring requirements, and Turning Point Scotland's needs.
  • To ensure effective provision of nursing by providing visible leadership and direct support in the delivery of nursing care across the range of Turning point Scotland’s services with a nurse workforce.

 


2.         Quality Assurance


 


  • Achieve agreed standards of service delivery in compliance with relevant legislation and National Care Standards.
  • Participate in implementing and using quality assurance systems, appropriate to the needs of the service, in partnership with stakeholders.
  • Lead on the clinical audit programme in the service.
  • Ensure that clinical procedures are regularly reviewed to promote best practise support by a robust evidence base.
  • To assist the Service Manager to prepare for Care Inspectorate inspections and other audit activities, and with the implementation of any recommendations or requirements




3.         Staff Management


 


  • To recruit, train and develop a high calibre of nursing staff by implementing and observing Turning Point Scotland’s policy and procedures for staff management and equality of opportunity.
  • To ensure delivery of nursing team activities to achieve maximum efficiency.
  • To ensure nurses plan and prioritise clinical tasks to respond effectively to service user needs, liaising with all appropriate staff members.
  • To monitor, supervise and review nursing staff performance.

 


4.         Administration and Financial Management


 


  • Contribute to and maintain individual and organisational records.
  • Record information in line with the organisation’s Confidentiality Policy and the Data Protection Act.
  • Operate the organisation’s financial procedures in line with guidelines and budgetary limits.

 


5.         Health & Safety and Property Management


 


  • Ensure a healthy and safe environment, and the best use of property and equipment, by implementing and adhering to policies and procedures.
  • Have a shared responsibility for ensuring that standards of health, safety and hygiene are maintained within the service.
  • Use risk assessment practices to avoid or minimise risk in all areas of your work and support.
  • Ensure the implementation of lone working guidelines and practice.

 


6.         Learning and Development


 


  • Participate in internal and external learning opportunities, as directed.
  • Seek out learning and development opportunities to ensure continuous professional and role development, making recommendations for priorities for all registered nurses to ensure delivery of best practise.
  • Actively participate in and be committed to the supervision and appraisal processes, in line with organisational policy.

 


7.         Communications


 


  • Promote the aims of the Service and Turning Point Scotland.
  • Represent Turning Point Scotland effectively at local level, liaising with individuals, stakeholders and communities.


GLASGOW ALCOHOL AND DRUG CRISIS SERVICE


SERVICE DESCRIPTOR



The integrated crisis service will provide a person centred and flexible response to some of Glasgow’s most vulnerable individuals, most of whom will present with multiple and complex needs. The service will be direct access, low threshold and be able to respond to individuals who experience multiple barriers to inclusion.


The service will have the ability to adapt to the changing needs of individuals as well as changing trends in relation to alcohol use, drug use, homelessness and other vulnerabilities.

The service will respond to individuals in crisis who are:


  • Alcohol dependent

  • Drug users [primarily injecting and poly drug use]
  • Homeless/Roofless

Knowledge Training and/or experience Requirements 

           Essential 

  • Current first level NMC registration
  • Educated to degree level
  • Non-medical prescribing
  • Advanced clinical assessment skills
  • Experience of working at Band 6 or equivalent

Desirable

  • Working towards Master level advanced practise

We are a large, stable national provider and a charity. As we are not for profit there is ongoing investment into our staff training and development, a good GPP pension scheme, and annual leave and sick pay that significantly exceeds the statutory minimum.

We also have a brilliant employee assistance programme (independent advice, information and support online, by phone and in person), a group reward scheme to help your money go further and access to a contributory ‘hospital’ fund. We have a relationship with a credit union and promote saving directly from salary.

We aim to provide a working environment where opinions and ideas are valued and arrangements are in place to ensure that there is a high level of staff representation and that people are encouraged to make their views heard and to participate at service and organisational levels.

As a leading national social care provider our breakthrough and forward-thinking models of practice and service are well recognised. Examples of this recently have been: Housing First, Psychologically informed environments (PIE), Citizenship and both Scottish and International research and evaluation of a range of projects. We work across a wide range of types of services and the organisation provides pathways for development: a career development workshop; appraisal; learning and training options; internal forums and project groups; and opportunities for internal secondment, temporary acting up or sideways roles and career progression.

The salary scale for the post will be (reduced pro rata for part time posts, the full time equivalent is a 37 working hour week)

  • £37,570
  • £39,495
  • £40,847
  • £42,268
  • £44,688

The annual leave entitlement will be (reduced pro rata for part time posts and will include a proportional entitlement to public holidays)

28 days per year, plus 8 public holidays and 2 local holidays.

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Should you have any queries, please call our freephone recruitment line on 0808 164 3100

This opportunity is closed to applications.