Salary at DRUGLINK

Responsibility

• 5.1 Service Delivery
• to develop best practice in recovery programmes for our client group
• we are looking for inspirational Nurses and Recovery Workers to join our team of Bank staff at our residential medical detox facillity based in Hemel Hempstead
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• ensure that the treatment plan is adhered to supporting wider health education, medication administration and any other appropriate activities
• you would provide cover for sickness/ holiday/ extra staff working a variety of shifts including day shifts, night shifts and weekends, whichever is most convenient for you and suits your availabillity
• deliver harm reduction advice, guidance, and education
• promoting and understanding the values, and mission of Druglink
• services, including promoting the core values of the Charity, i.e., Respect
• deliver high quality essential care to all people in their care
• this role provides fantastic flexibility around your home-life; you share your availability with us and we offer working hours that suit you
• assessing and monitoring using evidence based assessment tools to support clinical decision making
• evidence the ability to work autonomously and respond flexibly in a rapidly evolving environment
• deliver complex care to service users in their field of practice
• act to protect the public, and be responsible and accountable for safe, person-centred, evidence-based nursing practice
• deliver care and supporting people to achieve they activity of daily living
• maintaining contact and liaison with other local service providers, ensuring that ‘Oxygen Detox’ is represented locally
• to work with the Manager to ensure that practices, procedures and working arrangements are in place, to maintain the quality of the service to users, at the highest level possible and are delivered in line with safeguarding and best practice
• act with professionalism and integrity, and work within agreed professional, ethical and legal frameworks, and processes to maintain and improve standards
• to ensure accurate recording, monitoring, and evaluation requirements of Oxygen and Druglink are met
• practice in a compassionate, respectful way, maintaining dignity and wellbeing and communicating effectively
• to contribute to the strategic development of and Druglink
• act on their understanding of how people’s lifestyles, environments and where care is delivered influence their health and wellbeing
• assist in formulating and implementing operational delivery plans to ensure the Oxygen Detox are delivered in line with contractual and service level agreements
• seek out every opportunity to promote health and prevent illness
• to include blood borne virus interventions , overdose prevention including naloxone programmes, health and wellbeing screening brief and facilitated signposting and referral to partner services, including primary care
• support students, volunteers, peer mentors and service user representatives to take an active part in Druglink services
• ensure that service users receive advice and support in developing life skills in relation to maintaining their own home, socialising, developing support networks, volunteering, training education employment and leisure activities
• to ensure that all incidents and complaints are dealt with promptly and reported in line with Druglink requirements
• identify risks and take appropriate action in accordance with local, national and organisational Safeguarding policies, contributing to multi- disciplinary review meetings
• ▪ To participate in internal and external working parties as required
• compassion, Justice, Trust, and Hospitality. To understand what it means to you in your respective role, to your team and to service delivery
• to promptly provide information to all internal and external stakeholders in line with data protection requirements
• ▪ To liaise closely with your line manager and other senior managers as required
• use leadership skills to supervise and manage others and contribute to planning, designing, delivering, and improving future services
• we are looking for people who can work different and flexible hours so please get in touch whatever your availability and we will see if we can help
• maintain accurate and timely records using the designated case management system in compliance with Druglink’s information
• ▪ To provide training and consultancy services to other service providers as required
• deliver evidence-based clinical and psychosocial one-to-one and group interventions as part of an effectively integrated care package. Taking an assertive approach to service user disengagement
• provide high quality, person centred, low threshold services, responding to the individual and diverse needs and preferences of our service users and their significant others
• ensure services delivered conform to the operational policy and procedures of Druglink
• participate in the relevant meetings that contribute to a quadrant-based approach to service delivery and development
• enable service users to access education and employment services and health, wellbeing, and recovery support activities and to signpost to other available services
• to contribute to weekly team meetings that take place for staff
• to ensure that all information in relation to safeguarding is reported promptly and accurate records are maintained
• with its culture of learning DRUGLINK expects all its employees to seek learning opportunities either by attending learning & training events either externally or internally to improve and broaden their knowledge and skills and develop the personal qualities required in their professional lives

Requirements

• 8.1 ▪ A commitment to own learning and development and the learning and development of others
• ▪ Experience working within an inpatient detox service
• ▪ Passion for and understanding of either working in substance misuse services or with other socially excluded or vulnerable groups
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• with a proven ability to meet deadlines, record information accurately and in a timely way and to work calmly under pressure
• ▪ A demonstrable understanding of the Health and Social Care regulatory requirements of the Care Quality Commission
• national Institute for Clinical Excellence standards for Health and
• ▪ As part of your Continuous Professional Development, you will be expected to attend learning events and training on a regular basis and to reflect on your learning to build and develop best practice within your team and across the organisation
• social Care and any other relevant bodies
• nurse

Earnings for position nurse

Responsibility

• purchase Ledger including communication with suppliers to ensure all accounts are reconciled and accurate
• sales ledger including setting up new customer accounts, raising contract and service invoices and managing credit control
• processing credit card payments and providing proof of payments/receipt to customers
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• record income generated from Druglink diversion scheme card payments and trainer bank deposits
• record income from Druglink’s social enterprise both cash and card payments
• reconciliation as necessary of all associated sales sheets/spreadsheets
• residential fee management
• responsibility for obtaining authorisation and posting of bills to the purchase ledger and all payments to suppliers via bank transfer, cheque and debit/credit card
• resolving issues with payments and reconciling payments from customers, raising invoices as required
• housing Benefit payments
• reconciling incoming housing benefit payments for Druglink housing
• any other tasks as deemed appropriate by the organisation
• maintaining links with housing benefit teams to ensure all payments due are received and any discrepancies investigated
• working with Druglink staff to ensure all new customer/client information is collected and payment mechanisms are in place for placements in Druglink services
• ensuring that all payments are recorded in the property database and Quickbooks
• attend and contribute ideas at team and other Druglink staff meetings