ARC-MK help people over the age of 18, residing in Milton Keynes, who want to break a cycle of addiction to substances or long-term alcohol addiction. We offer a variety of psychosocial and clinical interventions to support clients throughout their treatment journey.
The post holder will be a registered nurse and experience prescriber in Addictions. They will provide a service specific to rough sleeper and hostel residents across Milton Keynes. The role will include a range of activities assessing and addressing the residents health and well-being needs, development of pathways into specialist services, training of hostel staff and partner agencies to support clients out of hours, improving overall health inequalities via;
Health promotion including prescribing
General Health screening
Support access early engagement via outreach into addiction services
Engagement in Primary Care services and facilitate access to organised health care
Support access into secondary healthcare
Support access into mental health services
Support access with housing
- Ensuring that there are risk assessment processes and that staff are adhering to these, to keep the people using our services as safe as possible
- Ensuring that there are systems in place for Safeguarding people and that staff are supported in recognising and responding when an adult or child might be at risk from abuse and are able to escalate concerns when necessary
- Addressing safety concerns and by doing so acting as effective advocates for those who use our services.
- Supervising systems are in places
- Ensure that the team has mechanisms in place for reflecting on everyday practice to identify areas where improvements in safety or quality can be made.
- Working with others to create a culture of continuous improvement
- Ensure that the services maintain compliance with their mandatory training requirements.
The Addictions Directorate within 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, 1 in-patient service. We also run national Gambling and Gaming Services, Smoking Cessation services and a Club Drug Clinic.
Our substance use services are dedicated to helping reduce the harm caused by substance use dependency; helping people overcome their dependency on substances 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 and are committed to evaluating our services and developing new and innovative approaches.
Please see the attached job description and person specification for more detailed information on the job description and main responsibilities of the post.
