**Clinical Nurse Manager 2 Alcohol Liaison Nurse (ALN)**
The successful candidate will develop and maintain an autonomous Alcohol Liaison Nurse (ALN) service for patients presenting to Beaumont Hospital who have alcohol misuse problems.
The ALN will act as a lead specialist in alcohol misuse, assessing patients on the ward or in the emergency department, and provide specialist advice and guidance relating to their management, care and onward pathways within the hospital and community.
The ALN will provide specialist education and training to all Beaumont staff pertaining to the screening, assessment and management of alcohol misuse.
The ALN will undertake both clinical audit and research in relevant substance misuse related issues as appropriate. To work closely with the Consultant in Psychiatry.
Responsibilities
* Lead in the development and maintenance of the ALN service for patients attending Beaumont Hospital with alcohol (substance) misuse problems.
* Responsible for the development and implementation of appropriate screening, management and a referral/care pathway process linking in to specialist community drug and alcohol services and other primary care services, as appropriate and in conjunction with other community or hospital based alcohol treatment providers.
* Responsible for the assessment, management and referral of patients with alcohol misuse.
* To work closely with clinical teams to provide early intervention for alcohol abusers to ultimately reduce re-attendance and admission, relapse and bed occupancy for this patient group.
* Responsible for working within current clinical guidelines and supporting the existing Alcohol Withdrawal Policies, CIWA scoring tool including Behaviours that challenge policy.
* To generate and maintain excellent communication links between inpatient, outpatient, psychiatric, community and primary care services.
* Responsible for providing specialist advice, guidance and education to all members of the multidisciplinary team.
* Responsible for the identification of education and training needs of various staff groups and disciplines within the hospital.
* Responsible for providing presentations at appropriate clinical forums such as grand rounds, clinical update meetings and local and national addictions meetings where appropriate.
* Responsible for working with relevant senior clinicians and managers within the hospital to develop policy relevant to the area of alcohol misuse within the acute medical setting as part of wider policy and strategy for substance misuse issues.
Clinical
* Be responsible for providing specialist treatment advice to all relevant members of the multidisciplinary team.
* Accountable for formulating in-patient treatment plans, risk assessment, management and appropriate aftercare and/or onward referral.
* Required to offer individual opportunistic brief interventions to referred patients regarding their use of alcohol whilst they are in hospital.
* Be responsible for ensuring that the principles of clinical governance guides all aspects of the post holder's work.
* Be responsible for ensuring that the clients care plan meets the diverse needs of all groups of service users.
* Responsible for providing adequate support and family interventions where needed and agreed in the care plan.
* Take responsibility for offering advice and support to other professionals within the relevant hospital departments and disseminate information as required.
* Accountable for ensuring accurate records are kept of all patient contact and interventions made.
* Responsible for working with other hospital liaison staff (i.e. liaison psychiatry) and team members to make substantial contribution to the development of policies and practice.
* To assist and take a lead in the review, development and audit of research based policies and procedures relating to alcohol misuse.
* Be responsible for contributing to clinical audit both post-specific and as part of the wider clinical governance agenda.
* Lead and be responsible for the collation of data for clinical audit and service evaluation purposes.
* Responsible for developing and maintaining a local database system to evaluate the service.
* Take a lead in the evaluation of the service as required and appropriate.
* Be responsible for providing clinical supervision to other junior staff as and where appropriate.
**Qualifications and Selection Criteria:**
* Mandatory:
o Statutory Registration, Professional Qualifications, Experience, etc.
* Desirable:
o To have experience of therapeutic intervention.