You can achieve more at St Andrew’s Healthcare
St Andrew’s Healthcare is a charity providing specialist mental healthcare services. We work in partnership with a number of NHS, voluntary, educational and research organisations to deliver a range of specialist inpatient and community mental healthcare services, education and research that helps to improve the lives of people with complex mental health needs.
The role
The post holder will work as a member of the clinical team across the Birmingham division.
The post holder will offer assessment, consultation and short-term intervention for patients with problems around substance misuse, including those with co–occurring mental health and long term physical health conditions. The post holder will work in close collaboration with patients, families and other professionals and services involved the person’s care, including ward based MDT, occupational therapy, psychological, primary care, social work team, substance misuse services, the police and other criminal justice agencies.
The post holder will use an integrated motivational interviewing approach that is person-centred and holistic and considers the needs of others in the patient’s social system.
The post-holder will be required to conduct a comprehensive biopsychosocial assessment that considers the relationship between the person’s mental and physical health, their social situation and their harmful use of drugs and alcohol i...