Job summary
- Main area
- Addiction
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- 12 months (Fixed term)
- Hours
- Full time
- Job ref
- 455-NLFT-0658
- Employer
- North London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Grove Drug service
- Town
- Tottenham
- Closing
- 01/03/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Non Opiate Recovery Worker
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/
As a values‑driven Trust, we recruit through our values. Our selection processes focus on behaviours, attitudes, and examples that reflect our organisational values and commitment to compassionate, high‑quality care.
Job overview
The post holder would be working as a member of a Multidisciplinary Team in The Grove Drug Substance Misuse Service in Haringey with a focus on supporting people into treatment and improving substance misuse and health outcomes. To work as a member of a Multidisciplinary specialist drug team, providing information, advice, assessment, caseload management, recovery and harm reduction services to service users
Main duties of the job
1. To carry out initial screening and triage assessment for new clients, and to follow up immediate risk/needs appropriately.
2. Caseload management of non -opiate clients including care planning , key working based on relapse prevention and MI intervention , risk management including client centred work.
3. To carry out in-depth assessments, including Strength-based assessment for Recovery Capital.
4. To provide crisis intervention and duty services on a rota basis, for clients whose Keyworker is not available.
5. To provide harm reduction advice, information and support with an emphasis on safer drug use, safer sex, HIV, Hepatitis A, B and C and other blood borne infections.
6. To carry out Dry Blood Spot testing for clients at risk from Hepatitis C, and to discuss and support service user with possible outcomes both before and after testing.
7. To work closely with the nursing team and refer clients who test positive for BBVs.
8. To manage a caseload, this may include service users with complex needs.
9. In consultation with service users and multi-disciplinary team, to develop flexible and realistic strengths-based recovery plans.
16. To work with other team members to plan, facilitate and evaluate a comprehensive group work programme, including relapse prevention, harm reduction, SMART Recovery, Open Groups.
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.
Why NLFT?
- We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
- We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
- NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
- Excellent internal staff network
The post holder will be aligned with our values:
- We Are Kind
- We Are Respectful
- We Work Together
- We Keep Things Simple
- We Empower
- We Are Proudly Diverse
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
1. To carry out initial screening and triage assessment for new clients, and to follow up immediate risk/needs appropriately.
2. Caseload management of non -opiate clients including care planning , key working based on relapse prevention and MI intervention , risk management including client centred work.
3. To carry out in-depth assessments, including Strength-based assessment for Recovery Capital.
4. To provide crisis intervention and duty services on a rota basis, for clients whose Keyworker is not available.
5. To provide harm reduction advice, information and support with an emphasis on safer drug use, safer sex, HIV, Hepatitis A, B and C and other blood borne infections.
6. To carry out Dry Blood Spot testing for clients at risk from Hepatitis C, and to discuss and support service user with possible outcomes both before and after testing.
7. To work closely with the nursing team and refer clients who test positive for BBVs.
8. To manage a caseload, this may include service users with complex needs.
9. In consultation with service users and multi-disciplinary team, to develop flexible and realistic strengths-based recovery plans.
10. In consultation with multi-disciplinary team, to review care plans at agreed intervals, with the focus on service user input and participation, according to service policy.
11. To provide one to one Key working with service users, ensuring that strength-based assessment and care and recovery planning is conducted on an individual basis according to the specific needs of the service user.
12. To employ a range of interventions with service users, including ITEP, Motivational Interviewing, Level 1CBT-based brief solution focused therapy.
13. To be fully familiar with treatment tools, including any tools that measure the cycle of change and the phasing and layering of treatment, to use in Key working sessions and in supervision, and to be able to provide training on such tools.
14. To provide information about, signpost to and facilitate access to Recovery-focussed activities such as Mutual Aid, Peer Support, ETE, etc.
15. To support prescribers with substitute prescribing for service users. 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.
16. To work with other team members to plan, facilitate and evaluate a comprehensive group work programme, including relapse prevention, harm reduction, SMART Recovery, Open Groups.
Person specification
Experience and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE
Desirable criteria
- Working in the substance misuse field
EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS
Essential criteria
- Relevant qualification in the field of substance misuse or social care
- Min requirement NVQ level 3
Desirable criteria
- Degree or counsellor
Personal qualities
Essential criteria
- Good communication skills and IT skills
Desirable criteria
- Good communication skills and IT skills
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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
- Tan Gobin
- Job title
- Operational Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02087026220
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