Senior Health Improvement Nurse

at  Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

This is an exciting opportunity to join an established substance and alcohol treatment service - the Derbyshire Recovery Partnership (DRP). DRP has been successfully re-commissioned to provide this treatment service from April 2024 in the long-term.
Working alongside colleagues from the voluntary sector, Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides harm reduction and health improvement interventions to people suffering with drug or alcohol misuse issues. The service has an overarching Recovery-focussed model, where interventions and services are planned in partnership with the people using them.
This opportunity will appeal to any nurse who is motivated by working independently, taking ownership of interventions and supporting some of the most marginalised patients to access healthcare.
The Health Improvement Nurse role involves planning and implementing harm reduction and health improvement activities for service users accessing drug and alcohol treatment. This will include the delivery of Blood-Borne Virus tests and Hepatitis B vaccinations as well as developing links with primary care and secondary care. This will also include health initiatives such as promoting take-home naloxone and remote ECGs.
The engagement with service users is essential to reduce harm and improve health outcomes and will require a skilled practitioner to be able to provide this in a pro-active manner. The successful candidate will provide harm-reduction advice and health information to service users; this can include needle exchange and advice on safer injecting, advice on healthy eating and provision of smoking cessation support.
Join ‘Team Derbyshire Healthcare’ and become part of a talented, compassionate and enthusiastic workforce committed to a vision of making a positive difference in people’s lives.
CQC rated us as ‘GOOD overall, commenting on how our colleagues treated patients with compassion and kindness and felt positive and proud about working for the trust.

BENEFITS INCLUDE:

Commitment to flexible working where this is possible
27 days annual leave/year plus bank holidays, increasing to 29 days after 5 years & 33 days after 10 years service
Yearly appraisal and commitment to ongoing training
Generous NHS pension scheme
Good maternity, paternity and adoption benefits
Health service discounts and online benefits
Incremental pay progression
Free confidential employee assistance programme 24/7
Access to our LGBTI+ network, BAME Network and Christian Network
Health and wellbeing opportunities
Structured learning and development opportunities
It is Trust policy that for posts that are for a time limited period, applicants who are currently employed by an NHS organisation will only be appointed on a secondment basis and should have approval from their line manager this is possible before applying. Applicants who are not employed by an NHS organisation, will receive a fixed term contract.
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