Bolton NHS Foundation Trust
Addiction Team Lead Nurse
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The Addiction Lead Nurse
The Addiction Lead Nurse is responsible for leading and developing the Trust’s Integrated Addiction Service, including managing a team of Addiction practitioners. The role focuses on delivering high-quality, evidence-based care for patients experiencing addiction / dependency related issues, while working collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams across the Trust and community services.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and develop the Integrated Addiction Service
- Manage and supervise the alcohol practitioner team
- Plan staffing and ensure effective use of resources
- Develop policies, protocols, and clinical pathways
- Run nurse-led clinics (e.g. Fibroscanning)
- Assess, plan, and deliver care for patients with alcohol-related illness
- Work closely with multidisciplinary teams across the Trust
- Liaise with community alcohol services and make referrals
- Build effective internal and external professional networks
- Identify staff training needs and deliver education programmes
- Act as a clinical role model and mentor
- Conduct clinical audits and monitor service performance
- Use evidence and feedback to improve services
- Support research and best practice in alcohol care
- Ensure compliance with legal, professional, and safeguarding standards
- Support patients and families with complex needs
- Aim to reduce unnecessary hospital admissions
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About the Trust
We have a long and proud history of caring for generations of local people and can trace our roots all the way back to 1814 with the first hospital in Bolton – the Bolton Dispensary in the town centre.
Bolton NHS Foundation Trust was formed in 2008 and, in 2011, we became an integrated provider with community health services joining the trust. Covering a catchment area that also incorporates parts of Bury, Wigan and Salford, we deliver hospital and community based services from the Royal Bolton Hospital in Farnworth and from 20 health centres across Bolton, to a catchment population of 310,000+ people.
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The Royal Bolton Hospital is a major hub within Greater Manchester for women’s and children’s services and is the busiest single ambulance-receiving site in Greater Manchester. We’re structured in four clinical divisions – Community Services, Families and Diagnostics, Medicine, and Surgery and are led by a Board of Directors. As an NHS Foundation Trust we’re accountable to our members and have a Council of Governors to represent the views of patients, public, staff and partners.
Buildings, names and models of care have changed over the centuries, but one thing has remained constant and is prevalent among our 6,718 staff members: the enduring commitment to providing the best health and care for the people of Bolton.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Samantha Osborne
- Job title: Advanced Clinical Practitioner
- Email address: samantha.osborne@boltonft.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 01204390295
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