nurse practitioner North Lanarkshire
Job description
Service: North Lanarkshire Overdose Response & Assertive Outreach Team
Based: Coatbridge with travel across North Lanarkshire
Hours: Full Time - 37 Hours
Salary: £23,023 - £25,813
Contract: Permanent
Join us in a fabulous new team
Do you have a passion for connecting with people to achieve their goals in life, and enjoy the sense of achievement in empowering vulnerable people?
If so, we have a fabulous Lead Practitioner opportunity for you to join our awesome team, in our NEW North Lanarkshire Overdose Response Crisis and Assertive Outreach Service. Because People Matter at Turning Point Scotland, join us to reach your full potential.
You will join a team of frontline health and social care staff to deliver efficient, high quality and person-centred care throughout the 6 localities of North Lanarkshire. You will provide support to empower people to live independently, reduce harm of drug use and make it a great place to work for our colleagues.
You will work primarily on an outreach basis engaging with people where they are and where they feel safe: in their own home, temporary accommodation, supported accommodation or in an appropriate community facility. You will engage with individuals through an initial contact within 24-48 hours of referral to the service and follow-up contacts until the person is engaged or re-engaged with longer term support services.
Turning Point Scotland actively encourage an excellent work life balance. As this role involves evening and weekend work, we will ensure that you are given your rota in advance to allow you to plan around your personal commitments.
North Lanarkshire - Overdose Response and Assertive Outreach Service
A new service based on the successful Drug Death Taskforce test of change to respond to Near Fatal Overdoses. Following a successful independent evaluation, the ground-breaking model will be main streamed in North Lanarkshire and will also include support to reach those services people find difficult to reach and/or retain, it will also offer short periods of support to those experiencing a crisis. The team will be skilled in delivering an assertive outreach approach that delivers a range of harm reduction interventions including injecting equipment and overdose awareness, the team will also include a nurse who will deliver wound care, healthcare screening and BBV testing. The staff team of approx.15 people consisting of health, social care staff and admin staff. We need someone who shares our belief in reducing harm of alcohol and other drug use, inspiring hope and supporting people to reach their potential.
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Please note that IT skills are required for all our vacancies.
Where applicable, successful candidates will be required to register with the SSSC within 6 months of start date.
- Comprehensive Induction
- 123 Learning and development courses
- 29 eLearning courses
- Funded qualification – SVQ Social Services and Healthcare, work based assessment
- Your Career Pathway, we promote from within and advertise internally all jobs
- Pension Scheme, employer contribution 4%
- Wide range of family friendly policies
- 35 holiday/public holidays days' per year.
