NURSE

Description

Job Summary: CECAS is seeking a Nurse to provide healthcare for women with substance dependence in Tarragona, carrying out clinical, logistical, and administrative duties. Key Responsibilities: 1. Healthcare for women with substance dependence 2. Coordination with medical and therapeutic teams 3. Management of materials and coordination with healthcare services The Catalan Centre for Solidarity (CECAS) is a private, non-profit foundation established in 1991, dedicated to supporting individuals with substance dependence—particularly those experiencing social exclusion—through biopsychosocial and re-educational treatment approaches, addressing associated pathologies. Among the services offered by the foundation—and integrated into the care pathway available to service users—are: - The Centre for Care and Follow-up (CAS) on substance dependence in Barcelona: an outpatient centre specialised in addiction treatment, offering medical, psychological, and social support. - Therapeutic Communities (TCs) for drug addiction treatment: residential settings replicating a social environment, structured for therapeutic purposes for residents, aimed at achieving control over and cessation of addictive behaviours and facilitating social reintegration. CECAS operates two communities: one in Barcelona (for men, with an initial intake phase at the city-centre facility and a subsequent phase at Can Puig in the Collserola mountain range), and one in Tarragona (for women). - Reintegration Housing: two units in Barcelona (for men), where users are supported toward gradual return to family, social, and professional life until definitive separation from the programme. For women in Tarragona, the reintegration phase takes place within the same Therapeutic Community facility. GENERAL DESCRIPTION The Nurse in Tarragona forms part of CECAS’s medical team, alongside two physicians and another nurse (based in Barcelona). Their mission is to deliver healthcare to service users in Tarragona throughout the various stages of their medical and therapeutic process: admission, follow-up, and reintegration. They also perform logistical and administrative duties, as well as other responsibilities linked to the nursing position. Clinical tasks for female service users: • Conducting urine analyses for toxicology screening. • Ordering blood tests—including serologies and PPD—if users lack them prior to admission; ordering chest X-rays in case of positive results. • Collecting laboratory test results, entering corresponding data, and communicating them—where relevant—to the physician(s) and/or therapeutic team. • Preparing weekly medication for female service users, including methadone. • Performing blood pressure and weight monitoring, acting as a medical triage filter. • Administering wound care and injections when required. • Managing vaccination campaigns (e.g., influenza, COVID-19, hepatitis, tetanus). • Providing health-related support to women, identifying their needs. • Linking users with the appropriate Primary Care Centre (CAP) and supporting them on health-related matters. • Leading health-themed workshops and food-handling training sessions. Logistical and administrative tasks linked to the nursing position: • Visiting the designated pharmacy to collect medications using prescriptions issued by physicians, and collecting receipts for users who co-finance part of their medication. • Ordering analytical and clinical care supplies. • Receiving orders and verifying correspondence between requested items and delivery notes provided. • Managing laboratory-specific materials: ordering, receiving, and organising incoming shipments. • Ordering vaccines for various campaigns. • Monitoring stock levels of medications and supplies. • Monitoring laboratory and refrigerator temperatures. • Managing healthcare waste: overseeing the waste management contract and waste container logistics. • Entering data into individual user files within the management software (CICLE). Other tasks linked to the nursing position: • Coordinating with the geographically assigned Primary Care Centre (e.g., scheduling visits, interconsultations). • Participating in developing healthy meal plans for cold and hot seasons. • Attending medical team coordination meetings, as well as meetings with Tarragona’s management and technical team and CECAS’s technical management, as required. • Staying up-to-date on new resources related to the organisation’s fields of work. • Attending trainings, conferences, seminars, or similar events on topics relevant to CECAS and/or impacting areas of responsibility. • Ensuring confidentiality of information related to the organisation—and especially that of individuals served by the resource. • Adhering to occupational safety and risk prevention recommendations. * Experience: 1 year. Experience and/or additional training in addictions and/or mental health is valued positively. * Bachelor’s degree in Nursing * Diploma or Technical Engineering degree in Nursing * Catalan (spoken and written: advanced) * Spanish (spoken and written: advanced) * Competencies / Knowledge: BASIC AND TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES \* Core nursing knowledge. \* Knowledge of pathologies associated with addictions among service users. \* Basic knowledge of commonly used psychiatric psychopharmacology. \* Familiarity with existing resources in the substance dependence care network. \* Understanding of mental health disorders. \* Knowledge of individual interview techniques. \* Knowledge of occupational risk prevention regulations. \* Proficiency in Catalan and Castilian Spanish. \* Knowledge of physical and cloud-based archiving. \* User-level computer literacy (office software). TRANSVERSAL COMPETENCIES \* Person-centred orientation—especially toward individuals with addictions and/or experiencing social exclusion: willingness and commitment to assist and work for the benefit of others, prioritising others’ interests above one’s own, and demonstrating a clear vocation to improve the lives of service users by identifying and meeting their needs. \* Commitment to the organisation: ability to internalise CECAS’s mission, vision, values, and objectives, along with the desire to be part of the organisation and contribute actively to its benefit. Also implies proactively and continuously seeking organisational improvement. \* Communication: clearly and effectively expressing one’s own ideas and understanding those of others, maintaining an assertive attitude. Demonstrating sound reasoning skills. Using active listening, paraphrasing, and other techniques. \* Interpersonal relations and teamwork: ability to build respectful, trusting relationships with internal and external professionals, cooperating and coordinating effectively to work collaboratively and efficiently in networks for the benefit of service users. \* Autonomy and problem-solving: capacity to carry out functions and tasks inherent to the position, addressing potential problems or incidents confidently, responsibly, proactively, flexibly (as needed), and safely. \* Organisation and planning: possessing a holistic view of one’s own responsibilities and field of activity, logically and orderly organising and prioritising actions to achieve set objectives and outcomes, optimising time and available resources. \* Flexibility: ability to adapt, seek, and apply agile and effective responses across diverse and changing situations, environments, people, responsibilities, and tasks—integrating change in a positive and constructive manner. \* Emotional regulation and stress management: ability to identify, understand, and regulate emotions—especially under pressure, conflict, or difficulty—seeking appropriate strategies for control and resolution, as well as managing accompanying physical expressions. \* Willingness to learn: ability and motivation to acquire and apply new competencies, valuing them as opportunities for personal and professional development. \* Analytical and critical thinking: capacity to identify and understand complex, non-obvious situations or problems, interrelating behaviours and recognising causes and implications. Establishing causal links between seemingly unrelated situations and/or problems. \* Negotiation: ability to seek consensus in situations involving differing needs, interests, and positions, using clear and sufficient arguments to reach mutually satisfactory agreements that yield optimal outcomes for the entire organisation. * Driving licence: B * Permanent employment contract * Part-time (16 hours per week) * Gross monthly salary ranging from '892' to '1000' * Other relevant details: • Workplace: Tarragona • Working hours: 16 hours per week. • Depending on candidate availability, working hours may be extended to include service provision at the Can Puig Therapeutic Community in Barcelona. • Working schedule: to be agreed with the candidate. • Contract type: permanent, with a 1-month probationary period. • Salary: between 12\.500 and 14\.000 euros gross/year for the 16-hour weekly schedule (for full-time dedication, the range would be between 30\.000 and 34\.000 euros gross/year) • Expected start date: to be determined.