Substance Misuse Practitioner – Harm Reduction & Recovery

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

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.