Job requirements
Essential
16 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Skills
Ability to act as a service user advocate.
- Skills
To be able to work autonomously and also within a team.
- Skills
Demonstrate good written and verbal communication skills
- Skills
Solution focused
- Skills
Have a good understanding of effective team working.
- Skills
The ability to prepare, clear, concise and accurate reports and to be able to present these.
- Skills
Able to use Microsoft applications and electronic contemporaneous notes
- education
Qualified registered nurse
- education
The post holder is required to be a qualified NMP
- education
Access to vehicle, with a full driving license
- Experience
Awareness of social context of substance misuse
- Experience
Awareness of the principles of audit
- Experience
Up to date knowledge of relevant prescribing guidelines
- Experience
Understanding of complexities of recovery-oriented substance misuse treatment and the constrictions and opportunities inherent in the primary care sector
- Experience
Evidence of continuous professional development
- Experience
Understanding of long term conditions and effects of substance abuse on health issues
Desirable
3 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Skills
Hepatitis
- Skills
Fibro scanning experience
- education
RCGP certificates for Drugs part 1 RCGP alcohol certificate
Job summary
Substance misuse prescribing nurse, providing access to medications that both manage withdrawal from substances of abuse and offer Detox in clinical setting or domiciliary setting.
Encourage Service Users to work towards recovery whilst maintaining stability.
Promote engagement with treatment plans and offer access to treatment promoting an every contact counts approach.
Provide management support for lower grades, supervision and appraisal.
Encourage long term condition compliance.
Main duties of the job
- Providing substitute prescribing for dependency and recovery
- Relapse prevention prescribing
- Community detoxes
- BBV testing and vaccination
- Health and wellbeing assessments and promotion of long term conditions
- Promotion of recovery
About us
BE THE DIFFERENCE IN HEALTHCARE
Join our team
We're looking for passionate individuals to join our diverse and innovative team.
Whether you are starting out in your healthcare journey or are an experienced healthcare professional looking for a new challenge we've got a role for you!
- Access to NHS Pension
- Time for you (additional day off)
- Refer a friend scheme
- Training and Development opportunities
- Flexible Working
- Access to Employee Assistance and Health and Wellbeing programmes
- Up to 33 days annual leave
We have an ambition to become a truly lived experience inclusive employer, changing how we approach staff experience and value personal stories our colleagues bring with them.
We welcome applications from everyone, including applicants with lived experience, those who belong to LGBTQIA+ Community and are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (or questioning), Intersex and Asexual, people with a disability, neurodivergent applicants and people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds.
Spectrum Community Health CIC provides a range of award-winning healthcare services on behalf of the NHS, Local Authority Public Health services, and other partners across substance misuse, sexual health, and health and justice settings. As a not-for-profit social enterprise and Community Interest Company our focus is centred on people - our patients, service users, staff and partners.
Details
- Date posted: 11 September 2026
- Pay scheme: Agenda for change
- Band: Band 6
- Salary: £39,959 to £48,117 a year per annum
- Contract: Permanent
- Working pattern: Full-time
- Reference number: 847-RM-26-V980
- Job locations: Horden Recovery Centre, Sunderland Road, Horden, SR8 4NU, United Kingdom
Job responsibilities
Please see the job description attached and the personal specification for full outline of main roles and responsibilities.
Flexible working and willingness to meet service need with a solution focused approach is key, ensuring that the client is at the centre of treatment.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
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This advert is for Nurse Independent Prescriber - Durham Substance Misuse with Spectrum Community Health CIC in Horden, England. It is listed as a Band 6 Nurse (adult and children) role. The advertised salary is £39,959 to £48,117 a year. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 27 Sep 2026.
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