# Senior Nurse DART - HMP Durham

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Spectrum Community Health CIC.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Spectrum Community Health CIC
- **Location:** HMP Durham
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Nurse (adult and children)
- **Grade:** Band 6
- **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 per annum
- **Contract type:** Secondment: 12 months
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-10-20T22:59:59.999Z
- **Posted:** 2026-10-06T13:50:50.793Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/West_Yorkshire/Durham/Spectrum_Community_Health_CIC/Secure_Environments/Secure_Environments-v8346802
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8346802?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://spectrum-cic.org.uk/

## Job Content

### Job overview

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, taking appropriate action to adjust staffing levels and to prioritise the workload in accordance with patient need, service demand and the availability of staff.
- The post holder will be involved with assessing, diagnosing, providing advice and administering care to patients.
- You will also be expected to demonstrate knowledge, skills and understanding of health issues and treatment options.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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.

### Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

## Person Specification

### Education and Training

**Essential**

- - RCGP Cert 1/2 Substance misuse
- Evidence of Competence in the Health and Justice framework
- Evidence of ongoing CPD

**Desirable**

- RCGP Cert 1/2 Substance misuse
- Independent Nurse / Non-Medical Prescriber (or willingness to undertake)
- Mentorship qualification

### Knowledge and Experience

**Essential**

- 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

**Desirable**

- 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

## Documents

- [recruitment faq's (pdf, 325.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3014)
- [spectrum's benefits (jpg, 188.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2774)
- [lead nurse dart jd & ps (pdf, 281.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10671741)

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