Health & Wellbeing Nurse

Job summary

What were looking for

This is an exciting opportunity to join a fast-paced and growing organisation.

Were looking for a Health and Wellbeing Nurse to join our Adult Drug and Alcohol Service in Cheshire West and Chester (Base Northwich). The successful candidate will be supporting our clinical and treatment pathways, including Buvidal clinics, ambulatory alcohol detoxification, BBV pathways, and health and wellbeing assessments for all service users. You will contribute to the routine clinical checks and audits for the CQC registered service, and form part of the MDT.

Our nursing teams are key to ensuring the delivery of excellent services, maintaining professional standards and CQC compliance, ensuring service users have routine access to health and wellbeing assessments, and delivering key pathways for treatment and harm reduction, improving outcomes for the communities that we serve.

You wont just be delivering clinical care youll be supporting people to stabilise their health, regain confidence, and move toward a safer, more hopeful future.

Were looking for nurses who bring empathy, clear communication, and the ability to stay grounded when situations become complex.

If youre someone who listens deeply, approaches people without judgement, and wants to make a real impact on recovery, wed be excited to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

Role Purpose

To deliver excellent drug and alcohol services to those who use our services and their significant others, including family members friends and carers, to facilitate positive outcomes.

Where indicated, undertake community alcohol detoxification, support Opiate detoxification and titration in the community and refer for specialist inpatient services including liaising with hospital and inpatient unit staff. Support outreach work across the borough, particularly around alcohol misuse.

Lead on Harm Reduction approaches within the service, including helping to reduce the spread of BBVs via testing and immunization schemes.

Deliver general healthcare support, including Wound Care, ECGs, healthcare assessments, and other similar activity.

Undertake basic life support/ anaphylaxis training so you are confident and competent to manage a medical emergency including the administration of emergency drugs.

About us

Who we are

At Via, our mission is to provide the best health and wellbeing support to as many people as possible, helping them to change their lives for the better.

Last year, we supported over 11,000 people across the UK affected by alcohol and drug use. Everything we do is driven by our values:

• Care. Care for people is at the heart of everything we do.
• Be human. We are accessible, genuine and humble. Always learning.
• Do the right thing. Were open, honest and inclusive. We get things done.
• We want to recruit the very best talent. We believe in nurturing a positive workplace culture where our colleagues feel valued, recognised, empowered, and supported.
• If youre someone who listens deeply, approaches people without judgement, and wants to make a real impact on recovery, wed be excited to hear from you.
• Deadline: 04/11/26 at midnight
• Salary: £36,151 - £42,321 FTE per annum, depending on experience (pro-rata to 30 hour work week)
• Vacancy type: Permanent
• Working hours: 30hrs hours per week,

Our Clinical Lead/Portfolio Lead Nurse is happy to talk through this role, what a typical day might look like, development opportunities, and Vias national network. You can reach Caroline Hughes by email [email protected] or Service Manager Jane Murphy by email [email protected]

Job responsibilities

Key duties and activities of the role

Provide high quality, person centred, low threshold services, responding to the individual and diverse needs and preferences of people and their significant others.

Deliver evidence-based clinical and psychosocial one-to-one and group interventions as part of an effectively integrated care package. Take an assertive approach to service user disengagement.

Deliver harm reduction advice, guidance and education. To include blood borne virus interventions (screening, vaccination and treatment access), overdose prevention including naloxone programs, health and wellbeing screening brief and facilitated signposting and referral to partner services, including primary care.

Enable people to access education and employment services and health, wellbeing and recovery support activities and to signpost to other available services.

Support students, volunteers, peer mentors and service user representatives to take an active part in Via services.

Identify risks and take appropriate action in accordance with local, national and organisational Safeguarding policies, contributing to multi-disciplinary review meetings.

Maintain accurate and timely records using the designated case management system in compliance with Via Information Governance policies and procedures.

Work flexibly, including across multiple sites and peripatetically when required.

Person specification

Experience

Essential

• Person specification for the role
• Passion for and understanding of working with substance misuse services or with other socially excluded or vulnerable groups. With a proven ability to meet deadlines, record information accurately and in a timely way and to work calmly under pressure.
• Great team working, communication and interpersonal skills. Demonstrating a highly
• cooperative approach to supporting colleagues and the whole team to deliver Service objectives, as well as in working directly with people and their significant others.
• Demonstrable ability to deliver an excellent quality level of service to people with complex needs. This includes the ability to work with people on a one-to one basis or to facilitate group sessions, to be able to complete assessments, care and support plans, risk assessments and to complete case recording to a high standard and in a timely way.
• Good IT skills including use of Microsoft Office programs and digital meeting platforms and Case Management Systems like Nebula, System One or Theseus.
• A demonstrable understanding of the Health and Social Care regulatory requirements of the Care Quality Commission (CQC), National Institute for Clinical Excellence standards for Health and Social Care and any other relevant bodies.
• Demonstrable commitment to working in partnership with other professionals such as criminal justice agencies, community groups and other stakeholders to achieve good
• outcomes for people.
• The ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, in different settings (e.g. written, spoken, presented, etc) and to different groups of people.

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered nurse (RMN, RGN or Learning Disabilities Nurse) with current active PIN
• number.