Overview:
Current NMC or GPhC Registration Required
Use your prescribing expertise to change lives.
Every prescription tells a story.
Sometimes it's about managing symptoms.
Sometimes it's about preventing harm.
But often, it's about giving someone the opportunity to take back control of their life.
At Change Grow Live, our Independent Non-Medical Prescriber's play a vital role in helping people affected by drug and alcohol use achieve safer, healthier and more fulfilling futures.
This is more than a prescribing role. It's an opportunity to combine your clinical expertise with compassionate, person-centred care, working alongside a multidisciplinary team that believes recovery is possible for everyone.
If you're looking for a role where you'll be trusted to make clinical decisions, influence service development and see the difference your work makes every single day, we'd love to hear from you.
You'll be passionate about delivering high-quality clinical care and committed to improving outcomes for people with complex health and social needs.
You'll bring:
Current NMC or GPhC registration.
Independent Non-Medical Prescriber qualification.
Recent experience working within substance misuse services.
Excellent clinical assessment and prescribing skills.
A strong understanding of harm reduction and recovery-focused practice.
The ability to build trusting relationships with people from diverse backgrounds.
Excellent communication and multidisciplinary working skills.
A commitment to safeguarding, clinical governance and continuous professional development.
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Ability and willingness to travel regularly across multiple service hubs to meet the operational requirements of the role.
West Sussex is a place where collaboration drives innovation. By bringing together clinical expertise, compassionate care and strong local partnerships, we're creating opportunities for people to recover, thrive and realise their potential. Join us, and you'll become part of a supportive team that's committed to making a lasting difference across our communities.
Our services are delivered where they're needed most. While your contractual base will be agreed on appointment, you'll work flexibly across our West Sussex hubs in Worthing, Chichester, Littlehampton, Bognor Regis and Crawley, collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to deliver outstanding care and support. Regular travel between locations is an essential part of the role.
Hours: Full Time, 37.5 Hours per Week
Base: West Sussex
Please note: Full-time hours at Change Grow Live are 37.5 hours per week. For part-time roles, salary and payments will be pro rata based on contracted hours.
Responsibilities:
As one of the UK's leading charities supporting people affected by substance use, we're committed to delivering evidence-based care that puts people first.
You'll work in a collaborative clinical environment where your knowledge is valued, your professional judgement is respected and your development is actively supported.
Whether you're leading prescribing clinics, supporting complex clinical decision-making or helping colleagues develop their knowledge, you'll play an important role in improving health outcomes and reducing inequalities within your community.
Working as part of a multidisciplinary team, you'll assess, diagnose and manage the clinical care of people accessing our services, delivering safe, effective prescribing and evidence-based interventions that support every stage of recovery.
You'll work closely with Recovery Coordinators, Doctors, Nurses and partner agencies to develop personalised treatment plans, review prescribing, support community detoxification and provide expert clinical guidance that enables people to achieve lasting recovery.
Alongside direct clinical care, you'll help shape and develop prescribing services, act as a trusted source of advice for colleagues and contribute to continuous quality improvement across the service.
Delivering comprehensive clinical assessments and prescribing evidence-based treatments.
Initiating and reviewing opioid substitution therapy, alcohol treatment and other appropriate medications.
Managing complex clinical presentations and developing individualised treatment plans.
Supporting people through community and inpatient detoxification pathways where appropriate.
Promoting harm reduction, health promotion and blood-borne virus prevention.
Working in partnership with Recovery Coordinators and wider healthcare professionals to provide integrated care.
Providing expert prescribing advice to colleagues and partner organisations.
Supporting clinical governance, service improvement and high standards of safe prescribing.
Helping develop the prescribing clinic and contributing to the continued growth of clinical services.
At Change Grow Live, we invest in our clinicians because we know they make the biggest difference.
You'll benefit from regular clinical supervision, peer support through our national NMP network, protected learning opportunities and ongoing professional development to help you continue growing throughout your career.
25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays, increasing to 30 days with length of service.
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Registration paid for.
A paid Wellness Hour every week.
Access to our Wellness Hub and Employee Assistance Programme.
Contributory pension scheme.
Protected CPD and specialist clinical development.
Support to maintain your prescribing competencies.
Career progression across a national organisation.
Employee discounts and benefits.
Generous Refer-a-Friend Scheme.
We combine clinical excellence, innovation and compassion to improve lives and reduce health inequalities.
Working alongside communities and healthcare partners, we're creating healthier futures through evidence-based, person-centred care.
If you're looking for a prescribing role where you'll have the autonomy to make clinical decisions, the support to continue developing professionally and the opportunity to transform lives every day, we'd love to hear from you.
Please ensure your application demonstrates how your experience aligns with the Job Description and Person Specification.
As we want to get to know you, not an AI tool. Please make sure your application is written in your own words and genuinely reflects your skills, experience and motivation for this role.
Direct applications only — we will not be engaging agencies for this vacancy.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
Salary Range (pro rata if part time): CGL points 43 to 48 (£48,987.04 - £54,663.24) ILW / OLW /Fringe: N/A - Outside London Weighting Area Closing Date: 31/7/2026 If you have any questions on this opportunity that you would like to talk through please contact us using the below details:: Katherine Wadbrook |
[email protected] : This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at an enhanced level.
