Alcohol Care Team Nurse

at  Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

The applicant will be based working within West Middlesex Hospital with a variety of teams and services support patients with alcohol related admission. The service operates 7 days a week and the applicant will be required to work a shift pattern that includes evenings and weekends.
The applicant will engage with patients at a variety of stages in their care from the Emergency Department through to the discharge lounge.
Our aim is to improve the health outcomes of patients and minimise potential returns to hospital admission using a variety of tools and skills, including: Brief intervention, enhance brief intervention, Motivational Interviewing , comprehensive assessment and onward referral.
The team also support patients admitted and undergoing medically assisted withdrawal from alcohol to support with discharge planning and relapse prevention with the aim of positive outcomes for the patient.

To work as a member of the multidisciplinary team based in West Middlesex Hospital in the management and treatment provision of the specialist service to people with problematic use of novel psychoactive substances with associated problem drink and drug use attending the service/unit, including harm minimisation approaches, motivational interviewing, relapse prevention, care planning, individual intervention, health assessments and education and detoxification programmes.
To be able to assess and case manage clients who inject drugs, in particular assessing injection sites and be conversant with the precepts of harm minimisation.
To manage the transfer of individuals between agencies and services from West Middlesex Hospital to the patient Borough of residence.
To counsel individuals about their substance use and related behaviours, using motivational interviewing, relapse management and other evidence-based interventions
To provide clinical advice and support within West Middlesex Hospital to other colleagues within the health care setting and to other agencies concerned with substance misuse.
The Addictions Directorate with CNWL Foundation Trust is a large, well-established provider which offers a wide range of specialist NHS drug and alcohol treatment interventions to the diverse and multicultural populations in Central and North West London. Our Drug and Alcohol services include 7 community services, 1 in-patient service. We also run a National Gambling Service and a Club Drug Clinic.
Our substance misuse services are dedicated to helping reduce the harm caused by substance misuse dependency; helping people overcome their dependency on substances and helping clients and their families rebuild their lives and enable recovery. We are committed to working in partnership with other providers and service users in local systems of treatment and recovery.
CNWL is committed to providing high quality, evidence-based treatment options and is a learning organisation which promotes staff competence and training and values clinical governance, audit and research. We are linked with Imperial College, University of London, University College London and numerous other local universities and are committed to evaluating our services and developing new and innovative approaches.
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
To manage the transfer of individuals between agencies and services from West Middlesex Hospital to the patient Borough of residence.
To counsel individuals about their substance use and related behaviours, using motivational interviewing, relapse management and other evidence-based interventions
To provide clinical advice and support within West Middlesex Hospital to other colleagues within the health care setting and to other agencies concerned with substance misuse