Recovery Practitioner - Criminal Justice

North London NHS Foundation Trust; London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A community healthcare provider in London is seeking a dedicated professional to join their Better Lives team. The role involves providing individual assessments and direct care for service users with complex substance misuse needs. The ideal candidate will possess the skills to manage a caseload and work collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary team to improve care outcomes. This position may require flexibility in location, including criminal justice settings.

Qualifications

• Ability to provide individual service user assessments.
• Skills in delivering and evaluating care interventions.
• Experience in working within multi-disciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Manage a designated caseload of service users.
• Provide high-quality, person-centred care.
• Collaborate with the Criminal Justice settings to identify clients.

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 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 to provide high-quality, person-centred care, responding to their individual and diverse needs, as well as those of 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.

Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to plan, carry out, and record proactive, assertive work to identify clients within Criminal Justice settings and seek to bring them onto our caseload to commence key working and recovery planning with them.

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 a supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
• We will be more effective as an organization 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 from your normal place of work. This may include locations under our Criminal Justice satellites, such as prisons, approved premises, or probation.

For further details or informal visits, contact:

• Name: Rachel Willems
• Job title: Criminal Justice Team Manager
• Email: [e-mail]
• Telephone: [phone]