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
- To carry out initial screening and triage assessment for new clients, and to follow up immediate risk/needs appropriately.
- Caseload management of non -opiate clients including care planning , key working based on relapse prevention and MI intervention , risk management including client centred work.
- To carry out in-depth assessments, including Strength-based assessment for Recovery Capital.
- To provide crisis intervention and duty services on a rota basis, for clients whose Keyworker is not available.
- 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.
- 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.
- To work closely with the nursing team and refer clients who test positive for BBVs.
- To manage a caseload, this may include service users with complex needs.
- In consultation with service users and multi-disciplinary team, to develop flexible and realistic strengths-based recovery plans.
- 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.
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.
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
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.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Tan Gobin Job title: Operational Manager Email address: tanwanteegobin@nhs.net Telephone number: 02087026220
