Recovery Practitioner

North London NHS Foundation Trust; London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

The North London NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a dedicated professional to join the Better Lives team. This role involves assessing and delivering care for service users with complex substance misuse needs, while ensuring high-quality, person-centred approaches. The post holder will collaborate closely with the Clinical Lead and may also take on care coordination responsibilities.

Qualifications

• Experience in providing assessments and delivering care interventions.
• Ability to provide high-quality, person-centred care.
• Experience in working with service users with complex substance misuse needs.

Responsibilities

• Conduct individual service user assessments and evaluate care interventions.
• Provide direct care to service users with diverse needs.
• Manage a designated caseload of service users.

Job description

Working as part of the Better Lives team, which is the Community Substance Misuse multi-disciplinary team in Islington, for service users with complex substance misuse needs.

The post holder will, using a range of generic and/or specific tools, be responsible for providing individual service user assessments, 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 and will provide high-quality, person-centred care tailored to their individual and diverse needs, as well as those of their significant others. This work will be delegated by the Clinical Lead or designated supervisor/manager. The post may also include a care co-ordination role for a specific group of service users.

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local community.

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 outcomes for all.
• We will offer great places to work, providing staff with a supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
• We will be more effective as an organization by pioneering research, quality improvement, and technology.

To meet the needs of the Trust, you may be required from time to time to work at different locations from your normal place of work. This may include any location within Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey, or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at other locations as deemed reasonable and necessary, on a temporary or permanent basis.

For further details or informal visits, contact:

• Name: Michael Screene
• Job title: Recovery Team Manager
• Email: [e-mail]
• Telephone: [phone]