Substance Misuse Practitioner

The Methodist Church in Britain; Retford; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 43,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Accredited Living Wage employer

Support for financial wellbeing

Culture of learning, development and成长

Appraisal, clinical and managerial监督

Mandatory and role-specific training

Job summary

Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust is seeking a practitioner to manage a psychosocial caseload and deliver group work focused on harm reduction and recovery within integrated substance misuse services in secure settings.

You will liaise across prison and community services, supervise peer mentors, and contribute to through-care and discharge planning, including take-home naloxone training and 13-week reviews. Training and vetting requirements apply.

Qualifications

• Structured psychosocial and clinical interventions experience (CBT, motivational interviewing, brief therapy).
• Experience in prison or community substance misuse multidisciplinary work.
• Experience delivering structured group-based interventions.
• Experience working in a prison or other secured setting.

Responsibilities

• Carry a psychosocial caseload, assessing, care-planning, implementing and evaluating care.
• Undertake comprehensive assessment after referral and formulate patient care.
• Devise care plans from assessment and review them regularly.
• Lead or co-facilitate group work on substance misuse and offending behaviour.
• Assess and respond to suicide risk, including the prison ACCT process.
• Liaise with internal, external, prison and community services to build through-care and aftercare pathways.
• Plan discharge, prison transfer and release with community services, including take-home naloxone training.
• Work with the prescriber on clinical care, including clinical observations, urine drug samples and withdrawal monitoring, and attend 13-week reviews and SMS complex case meetings.
• Act as second checker and signatory for controlled drug dispensing.
• Deliver psychosocial interventions one-to-one and in groups, and train junior staff.
• Supervise peer mentors and support their recruitment and training.
• Give information and advice on drugs, alcohol, smoking cessation, blood-borne viruses, safer sex, overdose and harm reduction

Job description

The role sits within Integrated Substance Misuse Services in Secured Services at Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust. The practitioner carries a psychosocial caseload, assessing patients, building care plans and delivering group work with a focus on harm reduction and recovery. The role also covers liaison between prison and community services on through-care, supervising peer mentors and acting as second signatory for controlled drugs. Applicants must have lived continuously in the UK for three years and evidence it, as the post is subject to security vetting.

What the job involves

• Carry a psychosocial caseload, assessing, care-planning, implementing and evaluating care
• Undertake comprehensive assessment after referral and formulate patient care
• Devise care plans from assessment and review them regularly
• Lead or co-facilitate group work on substance misuse and offending behaviour
• Assess and respond to suicide risk, including the prison ACCT process
• Liaise with internal, external, prison and community services to build through-care and aftercare pathways
• Plan discharge, prison transfer and release with community services, including take-home naloxone training
• Work with the prescriber on clinical care, including clinical observations, urine drug samples and withdrawal monitoring, and attend 13-week reviews and SMS complex case meetings
• Act as second checker and signatory for controlled drug dispensing
• Deliver psychosocial interventions one-to-one and in groups, and train junior staff
• Supervise peer mentors and support their recruitment and training
• Give information and advice on drugs, alcohol, smoking cessation, blood-borne viruses, safer sex, overdose and harm reduction

Experience

• Training and experience in structured psychosocial and clinical interventions, such as CBT, motivational interviewing, RCGP1 and solution-focused brief therapy
• Appropriate years of prison or community substance misuse multidisciplinary work, which may include substantial voluntary work
• Experience of delivering structured group-based interventions
• Experience of working in a prison or other secured setting

Skills & knowledge

• Understanding of clinical guidelines on substance misuse treatment in prisons
• Assessing and evaluating risk relating to substance misuse and mental health needs
• Excellent verbal and written communication, record-keeping and accurate documentation
• Managing a personal caseload with diverse substance-misuse, physical and mental health needs
• Working as part of a multidisciplinary team with healthcare, prison and community partners

Checks & eligibility

• Evidence of the required years of UK residency to meet prison vetting standards, subject to security vetting

Nice to have

• Experience of supporting administration of medication as a second signatory
• Understanding of a range of treatment options including evidence-based psychosocial interventions
• Current professional registration, such as occupational therapy, social work or counselling, and/or relevant drug and alcohol counselling experience

What’s offered

• Accredited Living Wage employer
• Support for financial wellbeing
• Culture of learning, development and growth
• Appraisal, clinical and managerial supervision
• Mandatory and role-specific training