Lead nurse team manager


Company:	NHS Jobs
Salary:	£49,387 - £56,515
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Stockport, SK1 3QD
Job type:	Contract
Posting date:	3 Aug 2026
Closing date:	30 Aug 2026

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Summary

To act as a senior member of staff providing a range of effective, appropriate and evidence-based interventions to drug and alcohol users in the borough. As a senior member of staff this will be focused on more complex serviceusers. This will include 1:1 key working session, case coordination, relapse prevention and psycho-social interventions.Responsibility for signing staff expenses and service invoices (within financial limits). Administer injections under appropriate patient group directives and policies. This includes vaccinations and the administration of, for example, Depot Buprenorphine. To carry out comprehensive assessments of clients, risk assessments and recovery and care planning in partnership with service users utilising a model that encompasses change, completion and reintegration phases of treatment. Provide harm reduction education, training and advice particularly in relation to tolerance and overdose prevention.To provide interventions focusing on managing individuals recovery capital and to contribute to borough and national priorities such as reducing reoffending.To offer expert guidance and advice regarding child and adult safeguarding issues to service users, carers, junior staff and the wider community. Ensure every opportunity is taken to achieve recovery and abstinenceincluding facilitation of community detoxification, and access to inpatient services where this is safe and appropriate, supporting visible recovery within the service and ensuring junior staff are practicing consistently within this recovery ethos. To work collaboratively with other agencies (sector specific and mainstream) to ensure that services are coordinated and working collectively. To provide verbal and written information to ensure service users can make informed choices about their recovery journey.

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