Band 7 Clinical Nurse Specialist Drug and Alcohol Liaison Service: Sponsorship Available

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

The purpose of this role is to work within a multidisciplinary team to provide an alcoholand drug assessment and treatment service as part of an alcohol care team, and toprovide a nurse led assessment service to the liver transplant programme. The serviceworks across The Royal Free and Barnet sites and is available 7 days a week.

Post holders will work under the guidance and supervision of a Lead Nurse forAddictions (Lead Nurse Drug and Alcohol service)

Working with patients who have been referred to the alcohol liaison service you willfirst assess and then provide evidence-based brief and extended brief interventionssuch as relapse prevention, motivational interviewing and cognitive behaviouraltherapy. Nurse prescribers will have the opportunity to develop their practice and theservice as we look to set up a 7 day a week ambulatory alcohol detox service.

All team members will be required to maintain good internal and external relationships, offering advice and expert opinion on patient management. You will provide teaching on your specialist area to teams across the hospital. You will design, implement and carry out research, audit and outcome measurement within the service and to analyse outcome data.

Main duties of the job

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Person Specification

Educational & Profressional

Essential

  • 1 st level of registration RMN / RN Adult
  • Relevant 1st Degree or evidence of relevant post registration substance misuse education/qualification.
  • Master’s level education or willingness to work towards.
  • Non-Medical Prescribing qualification or willingness to work towards

Desirable

  • Mentoring & Teaching qualification
  • Relevant counselling courses

Experience

Essential

  • Demonstrable experience of substance misuse nursing
  • A significant period at Band 6, providing nursing management and support to patients with alcohol/drug problems
  • Experience of providing alcohol and/or drug liaison nursing within acute hospital setting
  • Significant mental health nursing experience

Desirable

  • Hepatology experience
  • Experience of teaching and presenting to a multi disciplinary team

Skills and aptitudes

Essential

  • Evidence of working with a high degree of clinical autonomy
  • Excellent communication skills, both written and interpersonal
  • Excellent interpersonal skills
  • Ability to problem solve, prioritise workload and work towards deadlines
  • Ability to develop collaborative working relationship with different teams

Desirable

  • Proven ability to write effective clinical reports
  • o Knowledge and experience of MI, brief interventions, CBT
  • Experience and skills in presenting and teaching

Personal Qualites & Attributes

Essential

  • Empathy
  • Clear understanding of professional boundaries
  • Proven IT- skills
  • Ability to work under pressure
  • Ability to be self directed but also participate as a team member

Desirable

  • A willingness to work flexibility

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 25 October 2026

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