Addiction Nurse - Alcohol and Drug Recovery Service (ADRS)
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- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Hours / week
- 37
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Role summary
This role is for a Registered Nurse within the Alcohol and Drug Recovery Service (ADRS) at Bank Sneddon Centre. You will function as a key worker within a multi-disciplinary team, providing holistic assessment, planning, and evaluation of care for a defined patient caseload. The position involves developing therapeutic relationships with patients and carers, focusing on their mental and physical well-being, and responding to various patient needs including vulnerability and protection issues. It's a full-time, permanent contract, Monday to Friday.
Key responsibilities
- Functioning as an ADRS Nurse/ key worker within a multi-disciplinary team for a defined patient caseload.
- The holistic assessment of care needs including risk assessment, planning, implementing and evaluating programmes of care.
- Carrying out all relevant forms of nursing care pertinent to the needs of individual patients in the least restrictive and disruptive manner as possible.
- Responding to health promotion needs of patients focusing on improving the mental and physical well-being of patients.
- Identifying, and responding to the needs of patients which might be related to vulnerability, gender, health, domestic abuse, adult/child protection and/or self harm.
- Developing therapeutic relationships with patients and carers ensuring that care needs are identified and met within a participative framework demonstrating principles of equality, dignity and respect accounting for spiritual and cultural diversity.
Essential criteria
- A Registered Nurse with Level 1 NMC registration
- Educated to a minimum degree level (or equivalent)
- Able to demonstrate evidence of active and ongoing Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
- Able to demonstrate a working knowledge and application of physical and/or mental health nursing care
- Able to demonstrate a working knowledge and application of risk assessment, including factors impacting on physical/mental health, wellness and recovery
- Able to provide evidence of supervision and reflective practice
Desirable criteria
- Completion of an evidence-based psychological therapies / psychological approaches to care formal programme of study
- Evidence of actively working towards postgraduate level study (or equivalent)
- Completion of a recognised mentor preparation programme and/or being a registered mentor
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 5 at £29,970 – £36,483 a year, across England.
This advert: £34,544 – £43,039 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Job reference:
256869
Salary:
Band 5 (£34,544 - £43,039)
Job closing date:
06/09/2026
Job Type:
Nursing and Midwifery
Location:
Back Sneddon Centre
Employment type:
Permanent
Hours Per Week:
36
Job posted date:
20/08/2026
Employer (NHS Board):
NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde
Department:
Alcohol and Drug Recovery Service (ADRS)
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NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) is one of the largest healthcare systems in the United Kingdom, employing approximately 40,000 staff across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical professions and roles. We deliver acute hospital, primary, community and mental health services to a population of over 1.15 million people, and to a wider population of 2.2 million when regional and national services are included.
The role:
We are looking for two motivated and compassionate Registered Nurses to join our Alcohol and Drug Recovery Service in Renfrewshire. This is a varied and rewarding role working with individuals experiencing alcohol and drug use, where you will play a key part in delivering person centred care that reduces harm and supports recovery.
You will be involved in assessment, care planning, and ongoing clinical support, including physical health monitoring, harm reduction, and contributing to treatment inter
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