Senior Nurse DART - HMP Durham
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- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Secondment
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 07/09/2026
- Closes
- 21/09/2026
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Role summary
Spectrum Community Health CIC is seeking a Senior Nurse specialising in Substance Misuse to lead their nursing team within Health and Justice at HMP Durham. The role involves providing strong clinical leadership and operational guidance, managing the substance misuse team, and ensuring high standards of patient care. The successful candidate will challenge existing practices and innovate to improve services, focusing on a holistic Recovery model for patients.
Essential criteria
- oRCGP Cert 1/2 Substance misuse
- Evidence of Competence in the Health and Justice framework
- Evidence of ongoing CPD
Desirable criteria
- RCGP Cert 1/2 Substance misuse
- Independent Nurse / Non-Medical Prescriber (or willingness to undertake)
- Mentorship qualification
- Knowledge and Experience
- Post registration experience in substance misuse
- Multi-Disciplinary working
- Understanding of clinical governance
- Recovery based models
- Experience of working as an autonomous practitioner
- Change management experience
- Experience of leading a team
- Offender health knowledge
- Experience of working with an integrated model
- Understanding of local and national key documents and their impact on health care delivery in a prison setting
- Education and Training
- oRCGP Cert 1/2 Substance misuse
- Evidence of Competence in the Health and Justice framework
- Evidence of ongoing CPD
- RCGP Cert 1/2 Substance misuse
- Independent Nurse / Non-Medical Prescriber (or willingness to undertake)
- Mentorship qualification
- Knowledge and Experience
- Post registration experience in substance misuse
- Multi-Disciplinary working
- Understanding of clinical governance
- Recovery based models
- Experience of working as an autonomous practitioner
- Change management experience
- Experience of leading a team
- Offender health knowledge
- Experience of working with an integrated model
- Understanding of local and national key documents and their impact on health care delivery in a prison setting
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £39,959 – £48,117 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Spectrum Community Health CIC
Senior Nurse DART - HMP Durham
The closing date is 21 September 2026
Job summary
Spectrum is recruiting a Substance Misuse specialist to lead our dedicated nursing team in Health and Justice.
To take forward our service, we're looking for a nurse with excellent leadership skills and the ability to build relationships with a wide range of stakeholders - from pharmacists and Heads of Healthcare to NHS providers and services.
You'll be an affective and visible leader, providing robust clinical substance misuse support and operational guidance to all staff on matters relating to physical health and wellbeing within the prison setting. You'll manage our skilled substance misuse team and be passionate about patient care - with advanced nursing knowledge, an understanding of NICE guidelines and a desire to be involved with key decision-making.
In Spectrum, we don't believe in 'standing still'; we want our leaders to challenge existing practice and have the courage to innovate for the good of our patients, so that we can keep on improving. Our substance misuse services are built around a holistic Recovery model.
Main duties of the job
- The daily management of the Substance Misuse Service, including co-ordination of patient care and the provision of strong clinical leadership.
- This includes being involved with shift planning, takin
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