Substance Misuse Practitioner

Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust; North Leverton with Habblesthorpe; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust в Northamptonshire seeks a dedicated professional to contribute to Integrated Substance Misuse Services within Secured Services, delivering psychosocial interventions to support patients' recovery journey.

The role focuses on high-quality patient care with harm reduction and health promotion, including assessments, care planning, implementation and evaluation of care for substance misuse patients.

Qualifications

• Comprehensive psychosocial assessment and care planning for people with substance misuse.
• Ability to lead or co-facilitate group work.
• Experience liaising with services in prison and community for through/after care.
• Knowledge of harm reduction, blood-borne viruses, safer sex.
• Supervision/training of peer mentors.

Responsibilities

• Deliver psychosocial interventions to support patients' recovery journey.
• Carry out comprehensive assessments, care planning, implementation and evaluation of care.
• Lead/co-facilitate group work relevant to substance misuse and offending behaviour.
• Liaise with internal and external services in prison and community to ensure through and after care pathways.
• Act as second check/signatory in dispensing of controlled drugs.
• Support peer mentor scheme through supervision and involvement in recruitment and training.
• Provide information about drugs, alcohol, smoking cessation, BBVs and safer sex.
• Attend 13-week reviews and SMS complex case meetings with prescriber to ensure appropriate patient clinical care.
• Devise care plans from assessment and implement/review regularly.

Job description

To participate in providing the successful and effective delivery of the Integrated Substance Misuse Services within Secured Services, delivering best practice psychosocial interventions to support the patients' recovery journey.

To provide high quality patient care with a strong focus towards harm reduction and health promotion / recovery agendas through comprehensive assessment, care-planning, implementation and evaluation of care for people with substance misuse problems., To carry a psychosocial caseload with responsibility for assessing, care-planning, implementing and evaluating patient care.

To undertake comprehensive assessment of patients needs following referral to the service and completion formulations to advise patient care.

To lead/co-facilitate group work relevant to substance misuse and offending behaviour.

To effectively liaise and develop links with services, both internal and external, within the prison setting and in the community to establish effective through care and after care pathways.

To act as a second check and signatory in the dispensing of controlled drugs in relation to substance misuse.

To aid and support the Peer Mentor scheme through supervision of the peer mentors and involvement in recruitment and training.

To provide information and advice about drugs, alcohol, smoking cessation and related issues, to include blood-borne viruses and safer sex.

To work in conjunction with the prescriber, attending 13 week reviews and SMS complex case meetings to ensure appropriate patient clinical care.

To devise care plans, formulating from assessment and implement and review on a regular basis, in-line with patient needs.

NHFT is an NHS Community and Mental Health Foundation Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in hospital settings and in the community. We provide over 200 services across the county - as well as some specialist services in bordering and nearby counties. We work together with our partners to ensure that everyone who comes through our doors receives compassionate, person-centred care, regardless of their background or circumstances.

NHFT promotes a culture of learning, to improve the care and safety of our patients and colleagues. We have achieved our 'outstanding' rating by encouraging opportunity, innovation, development and growth across our workforce.

At NHFT we believe that work should be rewarded in every sense which is why we are proud to an accredited living wage employer.

We aim to support financial wellbeing and create an environment where are people feel valued and able to thrive.