Service: North Lanarkshire Overdose Response & Assertive Outreach Team

Based: Coatbridge with travel across North Lanarkshire

Hours: Full Time - 37 Hours

Salary: £35,607 - £44,561

Contract: Permanent

Join us in our 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 Senior Nurse opportunity for you to join our awesome team, working in our NEW North Lanarkshire Overdose Response and Assertive Outreach Service. Because People Matter at Turning Point Scotland, join us to reach your full potential.

As Senior Nurse, you will provide clinical input within the social care service model, enabling us to undertake, for example, assessment of injecting risk and advanced wound care as part of the delivery of WAND. The wider team will be able to draw on the your clinical knowledge and develop their own skills, knowledge and practice.

Turning Point Scotland actively encourages 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 Crisis 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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• Comprehensive Induction
• 123 Learning and development courses
• 29 eLearning courses
• Funded qualification – SVQ Social Services and Healthcare, work based assessment
  
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• Pension Scheme, employer contribution 4%
• Wide range of family friendly policies
• 38 holiday/public holidays days' per year.