Joyce Bockarie

Registered Mental Health Nurse with NMC registration. Experienced in multiple healthcare areas including substance misuse, mental health, and primary care. Flexible, autonomous professional with strong patient and family-focused approach. Skilled in immunisations (MMR, TB, Hep B, Varicella).

Placement at HMP Berwyn - Sanctuary Criminal Justice - north Wales

(2021-10)

Placement at HMP Berwyn - OneCall24 Recruitment Agency - north Wales

(2021-10 - 2021-10)

Briefly worked in primary care assisting in administering mediation, working with substance misuse team, having case load, working with the patients, doing second day screening, 5 day review, 13 week review, cows and sedation checks.

Substance misuse/well-being nurse - Red sector Recruitment Agency - Change Grow Live (CGL) Rotherham

(2021-05 - 2021-07)

Main duties were doing nurse alcohol assessment, making recommendations for inpatient and home alcohol detoxification and giving Heath advise which included safer way to do drink down on alcohol consumption. Also motivating client in being compliant to their treatment regime

Sessional substance misuse nurse - Change grow live Rotherham - Rotherham

(2020-10 - 2020-12)

Main duty was doing telephone nurse alcohol assessment.

Substance misuse nurse - OneCall24 (Agency) - HMP Ranby, Retford

(2019-09 - 2020-04)

My main duties were- Dispensing and administering controlled drugs and other physical medications to inmates with addiction problem. Doing comprehensive assessment, referring inmates to other relevance department eg, mental heath or physical heath, gym also to the community when nearer to be released from prison.

Mental Health nurse - Healthcare Solution (Agency) - HMP YOI doncaster, Care UK

(2019-08 - 2019-09)

Working with the The mental Health team, participating in the ACCT review, risks and mental health assessment and administering medication including some control drugs (methadone, Espranor)

Substance misuse nurse - Medacs Healthcare (Agency) - integrated Substance Misuse service, Dundee, NHS Tayside Health and social Care Partnership, Constitution House, Dundee

(2019-05 - 2019-05)

My main duties were doing urine drug test and reviewing client's health and welbeing.

Community substance misuse nurse - Sanctuary Criminal Justice (Agency) - Addaction community drug and alcohol service, scunthorpe

(2019-02 - 2019-04)

My main duties were

• Doing Wellbeing and healthcare assessment
• doing detoxification review on client who are on community drug and alcohol detoxification program
• Blood borne virus screening (by dried blood test)
• Administering Hepatitis A/ B vaccination and giving harm minimisation and advice on their client's illicit drug use and alcohol consumption

Substance misuse nurse - Healthcare solutions (Agency) - HMP Leeds

(2018-10 - 2019-01)

Ad hoc shifts substance misuse, IDTS, primary care department. My main duties where administering substitute control drugs and other physical drugs to inmates with addiction problem. Also making sure that all medications prescribed are in stock for them, take note of any request made by an inmate and put the request in to the appropriate department in order to be actioned.

Alcohol Liaison Nurse - Hays recruiting experts in Healthcare (Agency) - Community Alcohol Service, change Grow, Live (CGL), old Queen Street West Minster, London

(2017-07 - 2018-08)

Placement at the community Alcohol Service, working in the Hospital as an Alcohol Liaison Nurse and also doing some alcohol assessment in the community. As alcohol Liaison nurse, I see patient who are admitted to the hospital and alcohol is identified as the main reason for admission or admitted with other health issues having alcohol problem as well and are referred to the liaison service. Referrals to the service are made verbally by nursing, medical or any other health professional staff.

I will do patients healthcare/alcohol assessment, offer them harm minimisation and advice on their alcohol consumption. Patients who are willing to address their alcohol problem will be referred to alcohol service in their borough

Substance misuse nurse - Sanctuary Criminal Justice (Agency) - HMP Ranby substance misuse unit, Retford

(2017-05 - 2017-06)

My main duties were- Dispensing and administering controlled drugs and other physical medications to inmates with addiction problem.

Primary care nurse - Sanctuary Criminal Justice (Agency) - HMP Marshgate, Doncaster

(2016-12 - 2016-12)

Ad-hoc shifts. My main duties were administering control drugs and some physical medications to inmates with addiction problem addressing / taking care of their health and wellbeing.

Substance misuse nurse - Sanctuary Criminal Justice (Agency) - HMP Lindholme substance misuse unit

(2016-08 - 2016-09)

My main duties were doing healthcare assessment, recording electronically, reporting any concerns with their health issues and doing urine drug tests.

Community substance misuse nurse - Service Care Solution (Agency) - One Recovery in Burton upon Trent

(2016-01 - 2017-01)

My main duties were doing healthcare assessment and doing doctor's clinic which involves the following:- Doing drug testing (mouth swab), liaising with pharmacy enquiring about client's compliance with picking up substitute medication and to take to pharmacist clients in order to start picking up from their Pharmacy when the are newly prescribed substitute medicine or changing pharmacy.

Substance misuse nurse - Sanctuary Criminal Justice (Agency) - Step Forward/Change Grow Live(CGL)

(2016-05 - 2016-08)

During this time, I was working for this drug and alcohol service and also did community alcohol detoxification programme. Responsibilities included;

• Wellbeing and healthcare assessment
• Blood borne virus screening (by dried blood test)
• Administering Hepatitis B vaccination
• Restart/titration to ensure that clients were back on treatment when they fell off treatment, this was agreed with the service doctors and the none medical prescribers until the clients were stable on their substitute prescribed medication (physeptone, subutex and suboxone)
• Ensuring that client's health and well-being was maintained

Substance misuse nurse - Solutions Action Management (Agency) - Turning Point Drug and Alcohol Service, Croydon

(2015-12 - 2016-05)

During this time I was working for a drug and alcohol service and was employed as a substance misuse nurse. Responsibilities included;

• Caring for a caseload of over 40 clients
• Blood borne virus screening (by dried blood test)
• Administering Hepatitis B vaccination
• Conducting clinically assisted alcohol detoxification programme
• Supervising and giving support with the alcohol ambulatory/community detoxification programmes and making referrals for inpatient detoxification
• Key worker sessions
• Developing care plans to enable her to meet client needs and immediate needs such as temporary accommodation, to access counselling and psychosocial intervention groups and providing clean sharps (needle exchange)
• Conducting risk assessments and giving advice and information on harm minimisation

Registered Mental Health Nurse/alcohol nurse - Sanctuary Criminal Justice (Agency) - Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS trust

(2015-07 - 2015-09)

Responsibilities included; Alcohol assessment and recording electronically.

Substance misuse nurse - Sanctuary Criminal Justice (Agency) - Inspiring Recovery/Spectrum Wakefield

(2014-12 - 2015-07)

Responsibilities included;

• Holding the Alcohol clinic at Pontefract twice a week for those who lived locally
• Triage assessment which enabled me to understand client's alcohol history in order to give them the appropriate treatment, also to give advice and information to the client on how to reduce their alcohol consumption, helping them prepare for the alcohol community detoxification programme
• Transferring their prescribing back to their GPs if on a relapse prevention medication or discharge them after their detox if they were not on any relapse prevention medication
• Booking clients into the Doctor's clinic for prescribing and monitoring them through their regime until the end of their detox programme
• providing advice, information and support to clients on a 1-1 basis and liaise with prescribers and Recovery Practitioners on clinical interventions
• Referring clients back to their key workers who would continue to work with them until they were stable enough to transfer their prescribing to their GPs
• Sending out letters to the clients GP to inform them that their clients are about to be discharged and request for them to take up their prescribing giving details of their medication, dose and duration

Community Substance Misuse Nurse - Renew/CRI Hull - Hull

(2014-10 - 2014-12)

Responsibilities included;

• Conducting comprehensive assessment on prison release clients and assessing client's wellbeing
• Administering Hepatitis B vaccination
• Conducting Hepatitis B and C testing (dried blood testing) and drug screening

Registered Mental Health Nurse - Probation Office, Bennetthorpe - Doncaster

(2013-07 - 2014-10)

Community Substance Misuse Nurse - Sussex Partnership NHS Trust

(2013-01 - 2013-07)

Responsibilities included;

• Conducting healthcare professional assessments on new clients that were referred by the team
• Conducting key worker sessions which included risk assessment and harm reduction with all clients that Joyce had on her case load
• Conducting dry blood tests to be sent

Advanced Diploma - Nursing Studies - University of Sheffield (2003-09 - 2006-09)