Substance Misuse Nurse

At Change Grow Live, we’re more than just a substance misuse charity, we’re a community driven by our core values: Be Open, Be Compassionate, Be Bold. We believe in the power of transformation, and we’re looking for a Substance Misuse Nurse, (Outreach) to join our dynamic, multidisciplinary team in St Helens.

The nurse recruited into this role will work across St Helens, supporting some of our most complex service users in a range of settings, including street homelessness outreach projects, HMOs, service users’ homes, partner agency premises, and more. Due to the nature of the role working hours will need to be flexible with potential 07:00am starts when required.

 

• →Undertaking physical and mental health assessments for people who access our services including alcohol assessments and Health assessments.
• →Appropriate sign posting/referral to primary care or appropriate secondary health care services for identified health issues
• →Providing education, health promotion and screening for blood borne viruses (BBV)
• →Providing Hepatitis B vaccinations when indicated
• →Contributing to CGL’s Naloxone Strategy
• →Ensuring that procedures are regularly reviewed to promote best practice and evidenced based practice in accordance with UK Guidelines on Clinical Management, NICE guidance, and CGL clinical protocols and procedures
• →Providing harm reduction advice to injecting service users, providing information and equipment and ensure all equipment is disposed of safely
• →Recording and inputting client data and information

• We hold regular national nurse and HCA forums, and you will have regular 1:1s and appraisals
• We actively support our nurses with revalidation with protected continuing professional development time, which totals up to 6 days per year.
• We also have a wide range of educational opportunities including free access to the RCNi learning platform and we reimburse your NMC fee
• We offer you the opportunity to use the government backed Apprenticeship Levy fund to develop nursing practice in line with your specific role
• All our team members are encouraged to take a wellbeing hour every week and access personal well -being resources
• Our nursing pay is competitive with the NHS Agenda for Change pay bands

 

Please ensure that when completing your application form and supporting statement, you reflect on the details outlined in the job description. This will help us understand how your skills and experiences align with the requirements of the role

 

We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if we receive a high number of applications, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible

 

 

CGL points 33 to 39 (£38,114.53 - £44,469.24)

N/A - Outside London Weighting Area

5/10/2026

4/9/2026

Sharon O'Donnell (Prescriber - Sharon O'Donnell) | Sharon.ODonnell@cgl.org.uk | 07917977732

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