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Job overview

NHFT provide healthcare wellbeing services within HMP Peterborough. NHFT provides healthcare in the 3 prisons in Cambridgeshire and this post is based at Peterborough, but some cover and oversite are expected for the 2 other sites.

The Substance Misuse Team is part of the integrated Healthcare provision at HMP Peterborough. The team consists of Integrated Substance misuse Nurse, HCA, and recovery workers. The team works closely with the Secondary Mental Health team and Healthcare services to provide a Trauma informed Well Being service for residents.

The service provides comprehensive, safe, and effective Integrated Substance misuse service 7 days a week, facilitating screening and support for new residents and safe and supportive release processes.

The post holder will be lead Non-Medical Prescriber for HMP Peterborough

NHF works collaboratively with our HMP partners and other Health Care services to ensure that patient centred care is always delivered. The post holder will hold RCN registration and NMP for substance misuse and RCGP Level 1 and 2

Main duties of the job

The Substance Mis-use Team is part of the integrated Healthcare provision at HMP Peterborough. The team consists of Integrated Substance Mis-use Nurse. HCA and recovery workers. The team works closely with the Secondary Mental Health team and Healthcare Services to provide a Trauma Informed Well Being Service for residents.

For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the “About You” section of the document.

Working for our organisation

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be ‘outstanding’ by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.