The team is dedicated to:

• Maintaining a high standard of nursing care
• Providing effective care by assessing the individual needs of clients
• Addressing the needs of clients in a non-judgemental manner, maintaining confidentiality and dignity
• Health Promotion and Health Education

Our clinical role includes:

• Informal counselling and advice
• Allocating a keyworker for a caseload of clients
• Serving as an advocate where necessary
• Planning and updating careplans
• Liaising with other services e.g.Hospitals, Prisons, Other drug treatment clinics
• Referring to other members of the multidisciplinary team
• Initial assessment of clients
• Discharge planning
• Participation in on-going research projects and audits
• On-going study days
• Supervision and teaching of student nurses

Areas of Health promotion and Health education include:

• Viral screening and general blood workup
• Vaccinations
• Contraception
• Needle exchange, safe disposal of needles and syringes
• Dressings
• Injections eg. Inohep, depo-provera, antipsychotics.
• Pregancy testing
• Dispensing of methadone and medications.