Job Description

Role Responsibility

As a Non-Medical Prescriber Nurse (NMP), you will be involved with opiate substitute treatment (OST) interventions benzodiazepine reductions, alcohol and opiate detoxifications and relapse prevention medications. As part of the wider Wellbeing Team you will also provide support for health care assessments, administering detoxification medication for clients, completing alcohol and opiate detoxification assessments, providing Blood Borne Virus screening and vaccinations and will work closely with mental health, physical health and social care services. You’ll also help to create a collaborative approach that links Turning Point ever closer to outside professionals and agencies.

You will have a real opportunity to help shape service delivery and contribute to delivering clinically excellent services.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

We are seeking a Non-Medical Prescriber Nurse (NMP) that will join a new team, you will need to be an excellent communicator, you’ll have the ability to develop support packages that are creative, flexible and tailored to the needs of each individual. And of course, we’re looking for a Non-Medical Prescriber Nurse (NMP) who loves talking to people with different needs, is genuinely interested in helping them, and possesses a deep level of empathy, understanding and patience. Experience of Home Detox would be preferable.