Substance Misuse Nurse: Sponsorship Available

Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

Are you a compassionate and motivated Registered Nurse looking to develop your career within substance misuse services?

We are seeking an enthusiastic Band 5 Community Drug and Alcohol Nurse to join our dynamic multidisciplinary team. This is an exciting opportunity to support individuals affected by drug and alcohol use, helping them achieve and sustain recovery while improving their physical and mental wellbeing.

Working within a community-based service, you will provide high-quality, evidence-based nursing care to service users with a range of complex needs. You will work alongside experienced nurses, recovery practitioners, doctors, psychologists, social workers, and partner agencies to deliver holistic, person-centred care.

Main duties of the job

You will work as a member of Essex STaRS in providing high quality, evidence-based, holistic care to service users in line with your NMC professional code of conduct and trust policies. You will assess, plan, implement and evaluate packages of care based upon individual service user’s needs, under the guidance of the Senior Nurse as per NICE guidance.

As required by your manager, you will have responsibility for the day-to-day supervision and management of lower banded staff within your professional group and team locality. This may include the management of these staff in line with agreed Trust HR processes as required.

You will be expected to work collaboratively with key partner organisations, service users, carers, clinicians and other practitioners within the service in delivering services

In delivering your duties you are expected to display behaviours that are aligned with the Trust values and in accordance with the NHS Constitution at all times.

Person Specification

Essential

Essential

  • Registered Nurse/ Years experience
  • Experience of working in a community setting

Desirable

  • Experience of working in Substance misuse
  • Experience of working with complex needs

Essential and desirable

Essential

  • Registered Nurse/ Years experience
  • Experience working in a community setting

Desirable

  • Experience of working in Substance Misuse
  • Experience of working with complex needs

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: 29 November 2026

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