Young Persons Substance Misuse Nurse

Work closely with your services Safeguarding Lead, to ensure all issues and concerns are escalated and dealt with quickly and effectively.

Support and provide advocacy for young people by attending multi-agency meetings including agencies such as Police, Childrens Services and other professionals.

Deliver training and consultation to other professionals on the issues facing young people around substance misuse.

Help support the young person into education and/or training, working closely with partner agencies where appropriate.

Support and educate the families and carers of young service users. Plan person- centred support, in partnership with families and carers (where appropriate).

Encourage access to local youth/peer support groups.

Deliver harm reduction support and interventions working as an autonomous practitioner (including BBV testing, and Hep B vaccinations) and to support prescribing and script management where required.

Have excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, along with the ability to have difficult conversations, using empathy and sensitivity, with young people, often experiencing emotional and behavioural difficulties, related to their substance use and other health professionals.

Undertake comprehensive assessment of the young people's health needs following referral into the service, providing information and advice about drug use, smoking cessation, alcohol use and related issues to include blood borne viruses and safer sex.

Change Grow Live is one of the UKs leading health and social care charities and the Substance Misuse Nurse role is a varied one. You will be supporting people with multi-faceted issues related to the impact of substance use on their physical and mental health.

Nurses are an integral member of our multidisciplinary teams, offering specialist clinical interventions to people who use our services. Every person who comes into our service is treated as an individual, so understanding the importance of a whole person approach along with being curious, a good listener, a clinically robust practitioner and having a flexible approach are essential skills.

The focus of this role is to provide a clinical response to young people who require specialist interventions as part of a holistic treatment service. Each young person will be co-worked within the team and jointly managed with other agencies and services as appropriate. You will play a key role in assessing the nursing needs of a young person, considering their medical, social, cultural and family circumstances., Believe in people

At Change Grow Live, above all else we believe in people. It's the one thing that acts as a foundation for all our work.

If you use our services: we understand what you're going through. We won't judge. We believe you can make positive changes in your life.

If you work or volunteer for us: we believe in your potential. We believe you can do brilliant, life-changing work.

Our mission and vision

Our mission is to help people change the direction of their lives, grow as individuals, and live life to its full potential.

The vision we're working towards is to develop, deliver and share a whole person approach that changes society.

We believe that having diverse people working as part of our team makes us the organisation that we are.

We actively encourage applications from people from all backgrounds to help us to provide the best possible experience for the people who use our services and to make Change Grow Live a great place to work.

The safety of vulnerable children, young people and adults is our absolute priority. We will support you in your role to make sure that you are equipped to support the safety of people who use our services and those around them, to the highest standard possible.