Band 5
Main area: Substance Misuse
Grade: Band 5
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Part time - 18.75 hours per week
Job ref: 349-MRI-6824749*
Site: Hathersage Centre, Manchester Royal Infirmary
Town: Manchester
Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 per annum, pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 26/03/2025 23:59
Job Overview
Working within the Sexual Health setting with medical, allied health professional and nursing staff, alongside the current Substance Misuse Practitioner to provide holistic care to service users around ChemSex. The post holder will support service users from the point of entry into the service and through their treatment/recovery journey; provide screening, assessment, and recovery planning and onward referral; reduce drug and alcohol related harm to service users and the wider community; work in partnership with the voluntary sector around recovery and ongoing support.
Main duties of the job
* Work as a part of a team to oversee assigned groups of service users, providing: screening; asset mapping; comprehensive assessments; recovery planning (using motivational interviewing techniques) and review of care.
* Co-ordinate and deliver a tailor-made package of care.
* Carry out comprehensive service user assessments, including asset mapping of community resources and develop individual recovery plans that clearly identify how achieving each goal will enable progression in addressing substance use, sexual health and re-integrating into the community.
* Support interventions focused on behaviour change, motivation, confidence and building strengths.
* Ensure resources for interventions are available and stocks maintained.
* Work in partnership with colleagues and other services to ensure the wider needs of clients are addressed including health, mental health, SARC etc.
* Ensure the timely and accurate collection, recording and reporting of specific data and discussion with the MDT.
* Carry out risk assessment and management.
* Triage assessment and onward referral to a range of treatment/community support agencies.
Working for our organisation
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’ that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
We’re looking forward to hearing from you!
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
* Educated to degree level or equivalent alternatively training or experience equivalent to this level.
Desirable criteria
* Qualification in substance misuse.
* Counselling / Coaching / Mentoring qualification.
Knowledge, Training And Experience
Essential criteria
* Significant experience of working in the field of substance misuse.
* Enthusiasm and willingness to learn about chemsex.
* Understanding of sexual and mental health services.
* Able to communicate effectively both in writing and verbally to a variety of audiences.
Desirable criteria
* Experience in working with clients engaging in chemsex.
* Evidence of on-going interest in the field of chemsex.
* Experience of working in a sexual health related environment.
* Experience of public and patient involvement.
Skills And Abilities
Essential criteria
* Evidence of multidisciplinary working.
* Evidence of partnership working with other agencies.
* Experience of planning and delivering health education sessions.
Desirable criteria
* Access to own transport.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
* Substance Misuse Practitioner JD (PDF, 200.4KB)
* Substance Misuse Practitioner PS (PDF, 32.7KB)
* Functional Requirements (PDF, 920.2KB)
* Candidate Essential Guide Non Medical (PDF, 1.3MB)
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Further details / informal visits contact
Name: Paul Holt
Job title: Substance Misuse Practitioner
Email address: Paul.Holt@mft.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 0161 701 1842
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