Job summary
Are you a Nurse or Pharmacist with an Independent Prescriber qualification and a passion for delivering evidence-based treatments and interventions in Substance Misuse? We are seeking dedicated professionals like you to join our team in Sheffield and make a meaningful impact on people's lives.
Main duties of the job
Why Join Us?At Likewise our Independent Prescribers are essential in implementing good clinical practices and pharmacological/health interventions. When you become a part of our team, you'll benefit from:
- Work/Life Balance: Flexible working hours to suit your needs.
- Clinical Support: Regular clinical supervision, appraisal, and revalidation support.
- Professional Growth: Generous CPD time to enhance your skills and knowledge.
- Leave Benefits: Generous annual leave entitlement (27 days, plus bank holidays, increasing to 32 after 1 year's service).
- Team Collaboration: Work alongside skilled doctors, psychologists, nurses, healthcare assistants, and administrators.
- Impactful Work: Provide tailored support to service users in an efficient, safe, and effective way.
About us
Humankind is one of Englands most successful home-grown charities. We provide free, confidential support for alcohol, drugs, housing, or mental health in friendly local places across the UK. We are committed to fair chances for all and making sure everyone can access the help and support they need to realise their potential. By joining our teams of passionate individuals, you will be contributing to making this happen. You can really make a difference by believing in our service users and their ability to make positive changes when they dont always believe in themselves.
We are incredibly proud of the work that we do to help address health inequalities in England. Every five minutes, an individual accesses one of our services, and we have supported over 90,000 people across all our services last year. Check out our impact reporthereto read more about the important work that we have done.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job purpose:To deliver drug and alcohol clinical and prescribing services to the service population.
Key accountabilities:
1. Clinical assessment with or without Prescribing a range of medications (including
controlled drugs) to support recovery in line with national and organisational guidelines and
policies.
2. Prescribe cost effectively and according to best practice and provide prescribing
information and advice to Pharmacists, Shared Care GPs and hospital staff.
3. Undertake Service User centred assessments, care planning, monitoring, evaluation and
reviews in practice and outreach settings.
4. Blood Borne Virus (BBV) management (risk assessment, pre and post-test counselling,
testing and immunisation).
5. Deliver health promotion and harm reduction interventions in a client-centred manner (e.g.
safer sex, contraception, nutrition and healthy living).
6. Promote and deliver immunisation against Hepatitis B in line with national guidance.
7. Contribute to the maintenance of client clinical database; co-ordinate data entry and
retrieval searches and reports to meet the internal and external service requirements as
appropriate and ensuring data security at all times.
8. Liaise with pharmacists regarding supervised dispensing and prescription queries.
9. Share care with GPs for Service Users in Primary Care Extended Services
(PCES)/Primary Care Recovery Services (PCRS).
10. Deliver clinical interventions across hubs in different locations and deliver outreach as
required.
11. Undertake continuing professional development including participating in clinical
supervision, performance appraisals and attending training as/when required.
12. Work in accordance with all relevant legislation, best practice policies & procedures and
guidelines both internal and external. This includes Humankinds clinical governance
policy framework.
13. Participate in the audit process and promote service wide or local clinical audit Implement
findings/changes where indicated.
14. Ensure all serious incidents (including deaths in service) are reported, implementing any
service changes arising.
15. Disseminate learning across the service and the organisation as appropriate.
16. Provide support and assistance to other Humankind substance misuse services during
mobilisation
17. Collaborate on clinical governance, review and implementation of policies and guidelines.
18. Assist in and have continued involvement with national and local research projects, as
appropriate
19. Keep abreast of policy and professional development within your area of professional
expertise.
20. To promote, adhere to and live our workplace values of being honest, committed and
inventive.
Person Specification
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Proficient in Microsoft Outlook Office programmes
- Experience of entering complex information onto an electronic / clinical data base.
Qualifications
Essential
- First level registered nurse or registered pharmacist
- Independent Prescriber qualified.
- RCGP Qualifications Level 1
Desirable
- RCGP Qualifications Level 2 or willingness to work towards
Experience
Essential
- Experience in delivering evidence based treatments in Substance Misuse.
- Previous experience of carrying out general health care assessment including BBV, and delivering health promotion/ harm reduction interventions, advice and information.
- Awareness of social context of drug misuse and the wider implications of the behaviour.
- Understanding of complexities of primary health care and the constrictions and opportunities inherent in the primary care sector.
- Awareness and experience of the principles of Audit.
- Understanding of drug misuse services available in the public and voluntary services.
Desirable
- Awareness of national strategies impacting on drug and alcohol services and role of Independent Prescriber.
- Understanding of the differences between the private and the public sector roles and responsibilities.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website .
Employer details
Employer name
Humankind Charity
Address
Portland House
243 Moorfields
Sheffield
S3 8UG