176240 Addictions Community Liaison Nurse (NB)
Job Description
Job title: 176240 Addictions Community Liaison Nurse (NB)
Company: NHS Scotland
Job description: NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.
Act as a key link between acute medical and mental health nursing and community addiction teams, primary care, secondary care services and wider care providers with a pivotal liaison role in ensuring continuity of care for individuals with problem drug and alcohol use, who are admitted to the acute sector and then discharged back to a community setting. This would be an opportunity to support patient assessment and engagement with substance misuse services in the community.
To support the development of competencies of general hospital nurses within a good practice framework of intervention and care delivery for people with problem substance use, including delivering support and training to members of the multidisciplinary team which is evidence based and practice focussed e.g. management of complex withdrawal or pain management related to patients who are opiate dependent.
Whilst not carrying a caseload the post holder will act as a clinical lead providing specialist advice and support in the field of addictions.
For further information on what is included in the role and what skills/experience are being looked for, click on the links at the bottom of the screen to the job description and person specification. If after reading this information you have any questions please contact michael.chitehwe@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk or 01506 282845.
This post requires the post holder to have a PVG Scheme membership/ record. If the post holder is not a current PVG member for the required regulatory group (i.e. child and/or adult) then an application will need to be made to Disclosure Scotland and deemed satisfactory before they can begin in post.
Expected salary:
Location: Livingston, West Lothian
