Staff Nurse

The Edward Myers Unit (EMU) is currently a 12 bedded specialist inpatient service, delivering drug and alcohol detoxification and treatment. It is part of North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust (NSCHT) Specialist Directorate and is one of only 6 NHS Trusts across the country, who deliver medically managed inpatient treatment within the NHS.

We take referrals countrywide and we enjoy an excellent reputation both locally and nationally including transfers from Royal Stoke University Hospital and the West Midlands Ambulance Service.

Due to planned service expansion, we are currently seeking several experienced, highly motivated, dynamic Staff Nurses who have a passion for working within this specialist arena to help drive our services forward and develop a nurse led system of care. Nursing experience in the Substance misuse field preferable. These posts are currently under review and may be supported as developmental posts to a Band 6 post within the unit.

Unfortunately, these posts are not suitable for newly qualified nurses.

You will be challenged both clinically and psychologically by a complex client group in this rewarding role. Substance Misuse pervades many aspects of mental health services, having an impact on patient’s physical, psychological and social networks. Our client group are complex in nature and require a variety of interventions and treatments making these positions suitable for enthusiastic RGN’s and RMN’s.

**PREVIOUS APPLICANTS NEED NOT APPLY**

Clinical

• Triage/Assessment
• Risk Management
• Safeguarding
• Psychosocial Interventions
• Physical Health Checks
• Management of complex physical comorbidities
• Mental Health Checks
• Wound Dressing
• Health Advocacy
• Onward referral and liaison with primary care and specialist secondary services (for example: haematology, hepatology, coronary and dentistry)
• Referral reviews
• Promote evidence based and NICE recommended interventions.
• Provide Training and Health coaching.
  
  

Leadership

• Leading and Managing Teams/Staff
• Clinical Supervision
• Reflective Practice
• Partnership Working
• Providing guidance and working as Nurse in Charge
  
  

Quality Improvement

• Developing and leading on quality governance
• Clinical Audit and Service Development
• Data Monitoring
• Provide support/guidance related to substance misuse across the Trust in a specialist nurse role
  
  

Teaching

• Delivering training to non-specialist staff
• CPD in services
• Mandatory Training
• Mentoring of Student Nurses and/or Junior Staff
  
  

North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust is on an incredible journey of innovation and we’d like you to be part of it. To excel you will be an enthusiastic, caring and compassionate registered professional who is looking to work within a Trust that is ambitious to perform well and has been told by the Care Quality Commission that it is the fastest improving Mental Health Trust in the Country. If you are an experienced practitioner, we want to meet you and discuss the possibility of

you joining our great Team.

Our vision is ‘To be Outstanding in all we do and how we do it.’ Our teams pride themselves on

compassion, team work and resilience.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Tracey Stevenson Job title: Interim Service Manager Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 0300 123 1535