Main area: Substance Misuse
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 4
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Mon-Fri 08:00-04:00 or 09:00-5:00)
Job ref: 306-BEH-2556
Employer: 306 North London NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Chase Farm Hospital
Town: Enfield
Salary: Dependant on experience
Closing: 26/01/2025 23:59
Interview date: 07/02/2025
Recovery Worker-Dual Diagnosis
NHS AfC: Band 4
Thank you for your interest in the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT). It is an exciting time to join us and be part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people. We aim to achieve this through the North London Way, as we:
* Collaborate at every level by living our Values to create the right conditions for us all to work together.
* Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care.
* Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes.
* Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high-quality care across all our services.
* Ensure that research, Quality Improvement, and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services.
* Take a trauma-informed approach to everything we do.
We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer. We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all, including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers, and more.
The North London Way aims to deliver Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.
The North London Forensic Service is an NHS tertiary forensic mental health service based at Chase Farm Hospital in the London Borough of Enfield.
We provide care and treatment to people aged over 18 who have a primary diagnosis of mental illness or learning disability and who are liable to be detained under the Mental Health Act (1983). The service supports those whose risk of harm to others or escape from hospital cannot be safely managed in other mental health settings and therefore require care and treatment within a secure mental health service.
The post holder will help deliver dual diagnosis services, ensuring that high-quality services are delivered to service users with complex diagnoses. The post holder will work alongside the other members of the Substance Misuse team to offer evidence-based interventions to service users in inpatient services. The post holder will assist the Substance Misuse Lead to develop and maintain high-quality standards of care.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will:
1. Work alongside the other members of the Substance Misuse team to offer evidence-based interventions to service users in inpatient services.
2. Assist the Substance Misuse Lead to develop and maintain high-quality standards of care.
3. Be responsible for the assessment, planning, and implementation of motivational and relapse prevention-based interventions for a small caseload, working closely with their supervisor.
4. Deliver 1:1 and group interventions to service users.
5. Develop and sustain therapeutic relationships with those with complex presentations such as comorbid mental health and substance misuse issues.
Working for our organisation
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.
Our Five-Year Strategy:
1. Provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
2. Ensure equity of outcome for all with our partners in North London and each borough.
3. Offer great places to work, providing staff with a supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
4. Be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement, and technology.
In order to meet the needs of the Trust, you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that falls under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey, or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. Support the development and implementation of treatment within the field of dual diagnosis (mental health and substance use/misuse) for service users identified as potentially having a dual diagnosis within NLFS.
2. Carry out substance misuse assessments, as appropriate.
3. Provide one-to-one sessions with service users, ensuring that care and recovery planning in relation to substance misuse is conducted on an individual basis according to the specific needs of the service user.
4. Communicate highly sensitive information requiring the development of persuasive or reassurance skills to service users and colleagues.
5. Establish, sustain, and disengage from therapeutic relationships with individuals.
6. Interact and cooperate with service users, relatives, and other professionals within NLFS and any community services as appropriate.
7. Promote equality, diversity, and rights.
8. Work closely with ward-based nursing teams and multidisciplinary teams to support the implementation of substance misuse care plans.
This job description is written as an indication of the nature and scope of duties and responsibilities. Additional competencies may be required to fulfil the needs of specific areas and client groups. It is not intended as a fully descriptive list and does not include specific skills or therapeutic interventions that may be required of the specialist service area. The job holder will be expected to carry out other duties assigned by the team, which are appropriate to the grade and the training program.
The above indicates the main duties of the post which may be reviewed in light of the progress of the programme. Any review will be undertaken in conjunction with the jobholder.
Person specification
Education And Qualifications
* Training in vocational work, career advice, or equivalent experience gained through work in the field.
* Evidence of recent study.
* An awareness of the role of CPD and Reflective practice in effectively working in this setting.
Experience And Knowledge
* Experience working with people with mental health problems.
* Awareness of risk issues with this forensic client group.
* Experience of contributing to multidisciplinary team’s risk assessment and discharge planning processes.
* Awareness of the Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act and its significance for service users and impact on clinical practice.
* Knowledge of evidence-based interventions to support people who are recovering from mental illness.
* Understanding of the care programme approach (CPA).
* Basic counselling skills.
Skills And Abilities
* Ability to engage service users in physical and mental health promotion activities. Demonstrates awareness of personal safety in relation to lone working.
* Able to work sensitively and compassionately with service users who are often scared of moving.
* Able to help service users work through fears in a way that fosters independence.
Personal Qualities
* A keenness to make a positive contribution to improving the quality of life for people with mental health problems.
* Ability to acknowledge diversity and promote anti-discriminatory practice/equal opportunities.
* An ability to act calmly in emergencies and to respond in a professional manner to stressful and challenging behaviour.
* Empathy, compassion, and patience.
* Reliable, trustworthy, and enthusiastic.
* Ability to inspire others.
Other Requirements
* Effective IT skills able to use Word, case note software etc.
* Ability to work independently.
* Willingness to learn.
* Car driver/ability to travel to different sites.
References will be required to cover your last 3 years of employment/training. One has to be from your current or most recent employer and the others from your previous employer. The references should be from persons with management responsibility or HR.
If you have been unemployed for a period of four years or more, please give the details of your last employer and one character referee of your choice (not members of your family). If more applicable, references will be requested from your teacher or head of faculty. Please ensure you provide full contact details.
Vacancies that are advertised as Fixed Term Contracts will also be available as secondment opportunities for substantive internal staff.
Please be aware that your documents e.g., Passport/NI Card, will be electronically scanned using Home Office accredited Verification System.
Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts, we will close vacancies before the stated closing date once the first 50 applications are received. Therefore, please apply as soon as possible.
All non-medical posts with the Trust are subject to a probationary period of six months, during which time you will be required to demonstrate to the Trust’s satisfaction, your suitability for the position in which you will be employed.
Should you not hear from us within three working weeks of the closing date for this post, then regretfully in this instance, you have not been shortlisted.
By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at improving efficiencies within the NHS both to make cost savings for NHS organisations but also to save you time when your employment transfers.
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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.
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