Nurse Associate (Drug and Alcohol)
At a glance
- Band
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 15/09/2026
- Closes
- 29/09/2026
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Role summary
The Nursing Associate will work within a multi-professional team to assess, plan, organise, and deliver clinical care for individuals with drug and alcohol use issues. This role involves conducting health screening assessments, supporting medical clinics, managing stock, and facilitating Buvidal clinics. The associate will focus on the physical and mental health of service users, promoting safer practices and healthier lifestyles. They will also liaise with external agencies and maintain professional registration.
Key responsibilities
- Work within Achieve supporting the nursing and medical team to deliver patient centre care.
- Encourage and support drug and alcohol users to adopt safer practices and healthier lifestyles.
- Conduct health screening assessments related to drug and alcohol use and manage identified health risks.
- Complete clinic support for medical and non-medical prescriber clinics, including urine samples, BBV testing, venepuncture and ECG's.
- Support the management and facilitation of Buvidal clinics, ensuring clinical data is up to date and transport arranged.
- Support vaccination delivery (Flu and Hep B) and Needle exchange provisions within Achieve services.
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse Associate compliant with the requirements for NMC registration
- experience of working within the health and social care settings
- Knowledge of medicines management, and so be able to dispense, administer and advise on medications.
- Awareness of the physical, psychological and social effects (harms) of drug and alcohol use and patterns of use (including new psychoactive substances) and appropriate interventions.
- Able to build and maintain collaborative therapeutic relationships with people, maintaining professional boundaries.
- Able to recognise risk concerns, to carry out a risk assessment, ascertaining psychological, physical and social risks to/from people, and to develop plans to manage these risks (including using harm reduction interventions) and risks that require additional support from senior / regulated clinicians or external services.
Desirable criteria
- Specialist qualification in drug and alcohol use
- Training in Co-occurring substance misuse and mental health
- Experience of providing drug and alcohol information, advice and guidance to people, including families, carers, affected others and other professionals.
- experience in venepuncture, bbv testing and preforming ecgs
- Knowledge of stigma related to problematic drug and alcohol use, understanding how stigma can affect people and to promote positive regard for people, to actively challenge stigma, promote social inclusion and adopt a non-judgemental approach.
- Knowledge of the biopsychosocial model relating to problematic drug and alcohol use, motivation and behaviour change processes and recovery
- Knowledge of physical health and mental health problems and how these co-occur and interact with problematic drug and alcohol use, and so able to detect early warning signs and be able to respond.
- Able to ascertain priorities, tasks and resources, taking account of changing circumstances, risks and the needs of people
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 4 at £26,530 – £29,114 a year, across England.
This advert: £28,392 – £31,157 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
Nurse Associate (Drug and Alcohol)
The closing date is 29 September 2026
Job summary
The role of the Nursing Associate is to work with the multi professional team and the Registered Nursesto assess, plan,organiseand deliver clinical care in line with the service pathways and as agreed with supervising clinician(s).
Nursing Associates are equipped with the knowledge, understanding, skills, values,andbehavioursrelevant to employment; will work tothe currentnationallyrecognisedNursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) Code of Conduct and must meet the NMC standards of proficiency, high quality, cost effective, professional and clinical governanceevidence basedpractice.
Nursing Associatesworking in alcohol and drug treatment and recovery services are key to achieving a range of health and social care outcomes and bringing enhanced awareness of physical and mental health co-morbidities via care and treatment. The skills ofthe associateshold a significant role in thesector,they support the Clinical Manager,Nurses,Non-medical NursePrescribersand the wider service in delivering key performance indicators.
NurseAssociatesfocus on the physical health, mental health and wellbeing of people who use(d) drugs and/or alcohol. Theyprovide educationto increase awareness of co-occurring mental and physical health problems and risks.
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