The purpose of the alcohol nurse specialist post is to provide a range of interventions that will divert dependent drinkers from acute services into community-based treatment in order to avert future hospital admissions and readmissions.
Summary of the Role:
The role of the addictions nurse specialist is to assess and provide brief nursing interventions, including personalised feedback and motivational interviewing, to dependent and other high-risk drinkers and drug users attending UCLH Hospital A&E or admitted to hospital. The post will support them to access community-based structured treatment or out-patients services, as appropriate.
1.1 The post holder will :
· Promote the screening of A&E or ward patients for alcohol and drug use within the concept of the model of harm minimisation.
· Promote clinical skills and competencies in general hospital staff related to alcohol and its management.
· Provide specialist clinical advice on the management of clients with alcohol dependence or other alcohol problems to general medical teams.
· Provide specialist clinical advice on alcohol treatment options including medication-prescribing regimes to A&E/ward medical and nursing staff.
· Assess clients who are referred by the A&E team or wards through dedicated assessment and liaison sessions.
· Assess the psychological, emotional, social and treatment needs of the client, taking account of the needs of relatives/carers and local community.
· Plan, deliver and evaluate treatment interventions as clinically appropriate, using current evidence.
· Provide brief interventions, health education, advice and information to clients regarding their alcohol use and inform them of local services available to them.
· Manage and care co-ordinate clients with complex needs and/or high risk levels until transfer to core specialist services.
· Implement local Clinical Risk Assessment and Management Protocols.
· Monitor referrals to the A&E sessions and their outcomes and provide feedback to referrers.
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CNWL-Addictions Directorate
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 community services, and the National Gambling Service and a Club Drug Clinic. In addition, we provide smoking cessation services in Hillingdon and Camden & Islington.
Our substance misuse services are dedicated to helping reduce the harm caused by smoking cessation; helping people overcome their dependency 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 post-holder will ensure that A&E and ward staff are aware of alcohol-related issues and committed to screening, identifying and referring patients who are dependent or high-risk drinkers. The post-holder will offer ongoing on-the-job training, equipping hospital staff to deliver brief interventions to harmful and hazardous drinkers. The post-holder will also act as a source of expert advice, guidance and support for both A&E and ward staff on alcohol matters. S/he will develop corporate guidance for clinicians throughout the hospital on alcohol-related matters, including managing withdrawal and detoxification.
The post holder will design and lead research and clinical audits within their defined specialist area of practice.
1. Clinical Practice
1.1 The post holder will mange the project and take the lead and formulate/plan, organise, review and adjust a specialist clinical nursing service including clinical practice education and training programmes within a general medical environment with high numbers of client throughput and high numbers of staff turnaround.
1.2 The post holder will use their highly developed specialist knowledge, which is underpinned by theory, evidence, training and experience to develop and implement clinical, and process policy/protocols, which consolidate and enhance safe working practices.
1.3 The post holder will propose policy or service changes which impact on their own specialist area and beyond that specialist area, across other professional disciplines and structures within UCLH Hospital, within CNWL core service teams and within the borough’s treatment partnership framework.
1.4 The post holder will to a high standard, assess, develop and implement specialist pathways of care and provide highly specialised advice concerning that care to professionals, clients and relatives/carers.
1.5 The post holder will use their highly developed specialist knowledge to manage complex facts or situations which require analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options after assessing specialist acute and other conditions found in clients who are experiencing multi-diagnosis of alcohol misuse with medical and/or mental health complications.
This advert closes on Thursday 8 Aug 2024
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