Job Summary: CECAS is seeking a nurse to provide healthcare services to women with substance dependence in Tarragona, carrying out medical, logistical, and administrative tasks within the foundation’s medical team. Key Highlights: 1. Healthcare for women with substance dependence 2. Integration into a multidisciplinary medical team 3. Contribution to social reintegration 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 rehabilitative treatments for addiction, while also addressing associated pathologies. Among the services offered by the foundation—which together constitute the care pathway available to service users—are: - The Centre for Care and Follow-up (CAS) on substance dependence in Barcelona, an outpatient specialized centre providing addiction treatment supported by health, psychological, and social services. - Therapeutic Communities (TC) for drug addiction treatment: residential social environments designed therapeutically for residents, aimed at achieving control over and cessation of addictive behaviours and facilitating social integration. CECAS operates two such communities: one in Barcelona (for men—with an initial intake phase at the city centre facility and a subsequent phase at Can Puig, located in the Collserola mountain range), and one in Tarragona (for women). - Reintegration Housing Units: two units in Barcelona (for men), where users are accompanied toward gradual reintegration into family, social, and working life until definitive programme completion. For women in Tarragona, the reintegration phase takes place within the same Therapeutic Community facility. GENERAL DESCRIPTION The nurse based 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 across the various stages of the 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 role. Carrying out healthcare tasks for female service users: • Conducting urine analyses for toxicology screening. • Requesting blood tests—including serologies and PPD—if users lack prior results upon entry. In case of positive results, requesting chest X-rays. • Collecting laboratory test results, entering relevant data, and communicating them—where applicable—to the physician(s) and/or therapeutic team. • Preparing weekly medication supplies 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 for influenza, COVID-19, hepatitis, tetanus, etc. • Providing health-related support to women, identifying their specific needs. • Linking users with their corresponding Primary Care Centre (CAP) and supporting them on health matters. • Leading workshops on health-related topics and food handling. Performing logistical and administrative tasks related to the nursing position: • Visiting the designated pharmacy to collect medications using prescriptions issued by physicians, and collecting payment receipts for users who co-finance part of their medication. • Ordering analytical and clinical care supplies. • Receiving orders and verifying correspondence with requested items and accompanying delivery notes. • Managing laboratory-specific materials: ordering, receiving, and organizing incoming boxes. • Requesting 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 the storage of waste containers. • Entering data into individual user files within the management software (CICLE). Performing other tasks related to the nursing position: • Coordinating with the zone-appropriate Primary Care Centre (e.g., scheduling appointments, interconsultations, etc.). • Participating in the development of healthy menus suited to cold and hot seasons. • Attending medical team coordination meetings, as well as meetings with Tarragona’s management and technical team and, where relevant, with CECAS’s Technical Management. • Maintaining up-to-date knowledge of new resources related to the organisation’s areas of work. • Attending trainings, seminars, conferences or similar events on topics relevant to CECAS and/or impacting their areas of responsibility. • Ensuring confidentiality of information related to the organisation—and especially that concerning individuals accessing the service. • Adhering to occupational health and safety recommendations and risk prevention guidelines. * Experience: 1 year. Experience and/or additional training in addiction and/or mental health is considered advantageous. * Bachelor’s degree in Nursing * Diploma or Technical Engineering degree in Nursing * Catalan (spoken: advanced; written: advanced) * Spanish (spoken: advanced; written: advanced) * Competencies / Knowledge: BASIC AND TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES • Core nursing competencies. • Knowledge of pathologies associated with addiction among service users. • Basic knowledge of commonly used psychiatric psychopharmacology. • Familiarity with existing resources in the network of services for substance dependence. • Understanding of mental health disorders. • Knowledge of individual interview techniques. • Knowledge of occupational risk prevention regulations. • Proficiency in Catalan and Spanish languages. • Knowledge of physical and cloud-based archiving systems. • User-level computer proficiency (office software). TRANSVERSAL COMPETENCIES • Person-centred orientation—especially towards individuals with addictions and/or experiencing social exclusion: willingness and commitment to assist and work for the benefit of others, prioritising others’ interests over one’s own, demonstrating clear vocation to improve the lives of service users, and effectively identifying and meeting their needs. • Commitment to the organisation: ability to internalise CECAS’s mission, vision, values, and objectives, coupled with the desire to be part of the organisation and contribute actively to its success—including ongoing, proactive pursuit of organisational improvement. • Communication: clearly and effectively expressing one’s own ideas and understanding those of others, maintaining an assertive attitude; demonstrating sound reasoning skills; applying active listening, paraphrasing, and other communication techniques. • Interpersonal relations and teamwork: ability to build relationships of respect and trust 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 independently carry out functions and tasks inherent to the role, confidently, responsibly, proactively, agilely (as appropriate), and safely addressing potential problems or incidents. • Organisation and planning: possessing an overview of one’s own tasks and field of activity, logically and systematically organising and prioritising actions to achieve set objectives and outcomes, optimising time and available resources. • Flexibility: ability to adapt, identify, and apply prompt and effective responses across diverse situations, environments, and interactions with people, responsibilities, and tasks—embracing change positively and constructively. • Emotional and stress management: ability to identify, understand, and regulate emotions—especially under pressure, conflict, or difficulty—by adopting appropriate strategies for control and resolution, as well as managing accompanying physical expressions. • Willingness to learn: readiness and ability to acquire and apply new competencies, valuing them as opportunities for personal and professional development. • Analytical and critical thinking: ability to identify and comprehend complex, non-obvious situations or problems; interrelating behaviours and recognising causes and implications; establishing causal links between apparently 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: • Work location: Tarragona • Working hours: 16 hours per week. • Depending on candidate availability, working hours may be extended to include services at the Can Puig Therapeutic Community in Barcelona. • 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, the range would be 30,000–34,000 euros gross/year). • Expected start date: to be determined.