Band 6 Substance Misuse Clinical Practitioner | North London NHS Foundation Trust

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. Our Five-Year Strategy: 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.
• To provide specialist psychosocial interventions, risk management and advice for highly complex service users with significant psychological difficulties following their release from prison; integrating highly complex information from a variety of sources addressing both risk and personality difficulties, and requiring analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options.
• To provide enhanced substance misuse support to people screened in to the OPD Pathway. This should be delivered in conjunction with, and avoiding duplication with, mainstream support available to people on probation, e.g., through the Dependency and recovery service for people on probation (London) - Forward Trust.
• To identify services and play a key role in building relationships with substance misuse services across East London
• To ensure that case formulations consider the function and role of substances in individuals offending behaviour and personality difficulties.
• To formulate and implement plans for service users effective support and management, based upon an appropriate theoretical and evidence-based framework of the clients problems, and employing methods based upon evidence and practice and professional guidelines.
• To provide specialist substance misuse advice and consultation on resettlement to probation and prison staff, mental health services, and other relevant criminal justice, health and third sector agencies.
• To plan, organize and implement a range of specialist psychosocial interventions and activities requiring formulation and adjustment in response to service users, and where appropriate carers and involved professionals; co-working with clinical and non-clinical colleagues as appropriate.
• To evaluate and make decisions about interventions and support, taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
• To communicate highly sensitive information and decisions in situations where there may be barriers to acceptance and a hostile, antagonistic or highly emotive atmosphere.
• To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for assessment and interventions with service users whose problems are managed by psychosocially informed care/pathway plans within the OPD Pathway.