Combat Stress Tyrwhitt House
Location
Washington, Tyne and Wear | United Kingdom
Job description
Status: Permanent
Salary: Band 6, £35,973 - £43,457 per annum, dependent on experience
Hours: Part-time, 18.75 hours per week
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About Us:
Combat Stress is the UK’s leading mental health charity for veterans. For over a century we’ve been helping former servicemen and women deal with issues like post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety and depression. Today we provide specialist treatment and support for veterans from every service and conflict, focusing on those with complex mental health issues related to their military service. We provide a range of community, outpatient and residential mental health services to veterans with complex mental health problems. We provide services in-person, and via phone and online.
About the role:
This is a new and exciting position for a Substance Misuse Nurse to join Combat Stress and work alongside the NHS as part of Op Courage in the North East of England. For a Substance Misuse Nurse, an appointment working with our Armed Forces veterans would be extremely rewarding. You will work with a service user group who have a real motivation to make positive changes to their lives and your experience, compassion and focus on recovery will help achieve this.
The role will include managing a complex case load of veterans with co-existing mental health, physical health and drug and alcohol problems. The role will work in partnership with the Multi Disciplinary team, attending multi-agency reviews, completing assessments for veterans on various treatment pathways who require support around their drug and alcohol use. As a specialist Nurse this will also include completing structured mental health and substance misuse interventions to assist and promote recovery.
Supporting other members of the inter disciplinary team, you will provide high quality nursing interventions to veterans.
The candidate should have an interest in supporting veterans into recovery from substance misuse.
Experience of working with military and veteran populations would be welcome but it is not essential.
You will work autonomously within a small but highly skilled multidisciplinary team to provide timely and high quality specialised substance misuse interventions for veterans.
You will provide flexible and individualised care packages to meet the requirements of veterans with mental health and substance misuse needs. You will require advanced clinical risk assessment and treatment skills, along with an understanding of the needs of individuals presenting to the service. The role will require you to be proactive in the development of service and organisational initiatives.
This position will be a combination of virtual and in-person working, and travel to stakeholder locations will be expected as required. The role will be integrated into the Op Courage treatment pathway.
We encourage applications from all demographics and are keen to hear from those who served in HM Forces or have experience supporting the military community.
This role is subject to a DBS check and professional registration check.
What we offer:
You will work within a reputable charity that is constantly evolving to meet the needs of our veterans, that has a fantastic cause and a committed follower base.
Benefits:
• 27 days paid holiday plus bank holidays. After 5 years continuous service, this will increase to 30 days paid holiday plus bank holidays and after 10 years continuous service, this will increase to 33 days paid holiday plus bank holidays
• Competitive stakeholder pension scheme - contributions matched up to 11% of salary
• Discount shopping vouchers
• Cycle to work scheme
• Access to the Employee Assistance Programme
• Flexible working
• Access to Blue Light Card scheme
• Death in Service Scheme
Plus many more.
How to apply:
To apply, send an up to date CV and covering letter to [email protected]
For further information about the role please contact Michele O'Brien, Lead Nurse on michele.o'[email protected]
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Closing date: 8 March 2024
Interview date: TBC, likley to be week commencing 18 March 2024
Please note, we reserve the right to close this advert early, should we receive a sufficient amount of applicants
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Combat Stress is the data controller for the information you provide during the recruitment process unless otherwise stated. If you have any queries about the process or how we handle your information, please contact us at [email protected].
All of the information you provide during the process will only be used for the purpose of progressing your application, or to fulfill legal or statutory requirements if necessary.
We will not share any of the information you provide during the recruitment process with any third parties for marketing purposes or store any of your information outside of the European Economic Area. The information you provide will be held securely by our data processors whether the information is in electronic or physical format.
We will use the contact details you provide to us to contact you to progress your application. We will use the other information you provide to assess your suitability for the role you have applied for. You do not have to provide what we ask for, but it might affect your application if you don’t.
We do not collect more information than we need to fulfill our recruitment process and will not retain it for longer than is necessary.
Applications sent speculatively will be retained for a maximum period of six months, unless you contact us and ask us to delete your application sooner.
To read Combat Stress’ Privacy Policy please see our website www.combatstress.org.uk.
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