Band 6 Substance Misuse Clinical Practitioner

This is an exciting opportunity to take on a Clinical Practitioner post, specialising in substance misuse within a service of national reputation for quality and innovation. London Pathways Partnership (LPP) is a consortium of five NHS Trusts co-delivering a pan-London Integrated Community Pathway Service (ICPS) for the Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) Pathway alongside Probation Service London (PSL) colleagues. The OPD Pathway programme provides services to men and women with complex psychological difficulties and serious offending histories, and to the multi-agency professionals working with them. LPP also co-delivers OPD services in four prisons in partnership with HM Prison Service staff. The ICPS delivers consultation, training and joint casework to PSL, and case management and therapeutic interventions to service users, and has active social inclusion and user involvement programmes developed in partnership with service users and the PSL in line with desistance principles. LPP's Social Inclusion projects include the development of community 'Hubs' in north and south London offering a range of socially inclusive activities and support to service users., The successful candidate will be part of a specialist service to the pan-London Integrated Community Pathways Service, working together with PSL colleagues and service users to deliver the desistance and stabilisation phase of the ICPS and take a lead in areas of substance misuse. The postholder will work directly with complex, high-risk personality disordered service users provide specialist consultation, assessment, advice and training to NHS and PSL staff and other agencies. The postholder will contribute to workforce development by providing consultation and training to practitioners across NHS, PSL and other agencies to support confidence and competence working with substance misuse. The post holder will also provide supervision to ICPS clinical practitioners and provide appropriate psychologically informed psychosocial and risk management advice to involved staff across agencies. The postholder will liaise with probation, third sector and other agencies to address the support and wellbeing needs of involved service users and workers, working within a framework informed by best practice and the literature on working with personality disordered offenders and effective risk management, with an emphasis on desistance. They will contribute to the development and implementation of effective governance frameworks, and to the audit and evaluation of developing services.

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

1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home. 2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all 3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care. Why NLFT?

• We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
• We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
• NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
• Excellent internal staff network
In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.