Job summary
- Main area
- Substance Misuse
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Mon-Fri)
- Job ref
- 455-NLFT-0182
- Employer
- North London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Better Lives
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £35,964 - £43,780 Per annum including HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 29/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Recovery Practitioner
NHS AfC: 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
Working as part of Better Lives team which is the Community Substance Misuse multi-disciplinary team in Islington for service users with complex substance misuse needs.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will, using a range of generic and or specific tools be responsible for providing individual service user assessment and identifying, delivering, and evaluating care interventions. This will include providing direct care to service users.
The post holder will have a designated caseload of service users to Provide high quality, person-centred care to service users, responding to the individual and diverse needs and to their significant others, delegated by the Clinical Lead or designated supervisor/manager. They may also take on a care co-ordination role for a specific group of service users
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:
- We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
- With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
- We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
- We will 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 fall 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
Working effectively with clients who have a variety of complex needs and substance misuse. Case load management, duty cover, group support. Care planning and risk assessments as part of 12 week review processes. Working as part of an MDT. Managing clients on Opiate substitute prescribing. Offering harm minimisation and brief interventions as part of evidence based treatment.
Reporting to the Service Manager/Clinical Lead or designated supervisor the post holder will undertake a range of necessary tasks identified within the individual care plan. This will involve delivering care and interventions appropriate to the post holders level of experience and competences without direct supervision.
Contributing to multi-disciplinary comprehensive, culturally appropriate assessments to establish eligibility for health and social care services.
To undertake continuous risk assessment and to contribute to effective risk management.
Recognizing and valuing service users as individuals the post holder will ensure that the care provided respects equality and diversity that is supportive of service users and their carers. This will include encouraging service users to accept an optimum level of responsibility for their individual programme of care and with their consent, where appropriate; seek the cooperation of friends, relatives and/or carers.
Utilising agreed frameworks and guidance such as NICE or OHID; evidence based best practice and or local policy and procedure, as well as a range of profession specific tools, the post holder will actively assess, plan and determine the care needs of service users. The post holder will undertake and contribute to specific or multi-disciplinary team reviews of such care.
Person specification
Qualifications/ registration
Essential criteria
- NVQ3 or equivalent
- Knowledge and experience of working with individuals with a history of substance use
Desirable criteria
- able to work independently with initiative and drive
experience and knoledge
Essential criteria
- Demonstarate an understanding and experience of the assessment of Risk and evaluation of care interventions
- Demonstrate a sound knoledge and understanding of the needs and difficulties of substance misuse clients. Ability to explain this to others and champion the needs of vulnerable groups.
Desirable criteria
- Able to work independently with initiative and drive
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- A passion for working with and improving the lives of vulnerable and marginalised individuals and communities
- Demonstrate a clear understanding of the roles within a multi-professional team
Desirable criteria
- Able to make autonomous decisions
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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Michael Screene
- Job title
- Recovery team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02033176099
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
Candi & Tavi
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