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Main area
Substance Misuse
Grade
Band 5
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
455-NLFT-0185
Employer
North London NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Enable-Alcohol and Drug Services, Claverinig Industrial Estate
Town
Edmonton
Salary
£34,521 - £41,956 Per annum including Outer London Allowance
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
06/07/2025 23:59

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North London NHS Foundation Trust logo

Substance Misuse Recovery Worker

Band 5

Thank you for your interest in the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT). This 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 will 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 to deliver, Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.

Our trust website is:  https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/ 

Job overview

To work as a member of a multidisciplinary disciplinary specialist drug team, providing information, advice, assessment, caseload management, recovery and harm reduction services to drug users. To work across the treatment pathways to provide a range of interventions including duty cover, substitute prescribing, 1:1 keywork sessions, facilitation of groups, community care and GPSC.

Main duties of the job

 

  • To work as an effective member of the multidisciplinary team actively participating in team meetings, group supervision and clinical team meeting
  • To manage a caseload of service users with complex needs, completing comprehensive assessments, risk management and treatment plans, as well as co-produced care plans with service users.
  • To work with service users who are in Opioid Substitute treatment substitute and non opiate . This includes testing service users for illicit drug use, liaising with pharmacies regarding dispensing and supervised consumption, GP liaison and producing/issuing prescriptions under the supervision of a medical prescriber.
  • To adhere to local safeguarding protocols to safeguard children and vulnerable adults. including the completion of safeguarding assessment tools, referrals to social services and producing reports
  • To work effectively with partner agencies and other professional to ensure a joined up approach to treatment and care planning

 

Working for our organisation

Our values

The Trust’s values are:

  • Compassion
  • Respect
  • Being Positive
  • Working together

 

 

NHS VALUES

 

It is recommended that where possible the NHS values below are reflected in job descriptions. Please go to the NHS Confederation website for further information www.nhsconfed.org

 

RESPECT AND DIGNITY

We value each person as an individual, respect their aspirations and commitments in life, and seek to understand their priorities, needs, abilities and limits. We take what others have to say seriously. We are honest about our point of view and what we can and cannot do.

 

COMMITMENT TO QUALITY OF CARE

We earn the trust that is placed in us by insisting on quality and striving to get the basics right every time – safety, confidentiality, professional and managerial integrity, accountability, dependable service and good communication. We welcome feedback, learn from our mistakes and build on our success.

 

COMPASSION

We find the time to listen and talk when it is needed, make the effort to understand and get on and do the small things that mean so much – not because we are asked to but because we care.

Improving lives

We strive to improve health and well-being and people’s experiences of the NHS. We value excellence and professionalism wherever we find it – in the everyday things that make people’s lives better as much as in clinical practice, service improvements and innovation.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

  •  To work as an effective member of the multidisciplinary team actively participating in team meetings, group supervision and clinical team meetings
  • To manage a caseload of service users with complex needs, completing comprehensive assessments, risk management and treatment plans, as well as co-produced care plans with service users.
  • To work with service users who are in Opioid Substitute treatment substitute. This includes testing service users for illicit drug use, liaising with pharmacies regarding dispensing and supervised consumption, GP liaison and producing/issuing prescriptions under the supervision of a medical prescriber.
  • To adhere to local safeguarding protocols to safeguard children and vulnerable adults. including the completion of safeguarding assessment tools, referrals to social services and producing reports
  • To work effectively with partner agencies and other professional to ensure a joined up approach to treatment and care planning

This is not an exhaustive list, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.

Person specification

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS

Essential criteria
  • NVQ Health and social care
  • Basic education
Desirable criteria
  • Drug and alcohol related qualification

EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE

Essential criteria
  • Experience required to do the job
  • Demonstrate relevant knowledge gained in previous employment or elsewhere

SKILLS AND ABILITIES

Essential criteria
  • Specific skills that will enable candidate to fulfill job role, including IT skills

PERSONAL QUALITIES

Essential criteria
  • Should include team working, interpersonal skills and written and verbal skills, importance of a positive “can do” attitude and a positive attitude to change

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardVeteran AwareApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleJob share policyAge positiveImproving working livesCare quality commission - GoodArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerCare Leaver CovenantStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Step into healthAccredited Living Wage Employer

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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Sabrina Miller-Cummings
Job title
Operational Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
02083796010
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