Rough Sleepers Outreach Practitioner

The post holder will use their specialist foundation knowledge and skills in substance misuse to undertake assessment, care planning, implementing and evaluating the case and treatment of clients.

The role will involve working within the borough of Hillingdon including high frequency areas such as Heathrow airport with the target population of rough sleepers or individuals at risk of rough sleeping. They will work closely with partnering agencies, enabling rough sleepers to access drug and alcohol treatment. The post holder will support the team by assisting clients to register with the local GP and by supporting clients to access healthcare and wellbeing services.

The role will also involve working in close partnership with Criminal Justice services to ensure Rough Sleepers, with forensic offending behaviour are able to receive holistic and responsive support. This will help to positively influence behavioural changes whilst working towards overall person centrered recovery goals.

The successful candidate will perform duty assessments to clients that are new to the service, in addition to acting as keyworker to a defined allocated caseload of clients with a low to medium degree of complexity, under the supervision of designated Senior Drug & Alcohol Practitioner within the team.

The post holder will be responsible for ensuring that the delivery of the care and management of this client group is done in compliance with HCC Quality Standards., Clinical Duties:

o To work as a member of the multidisciplinary team which provides a range of specialist services to problem drinkers and problematic club drug takers attending the service/unit, including harm minimisation approaches, motivational interviewing, relapse prevention, care planning individual intervention, health education and detoxification programmes, mindfulness, counselling and group work.

o To make continuous assessments, under supervision, of the psychological, emotional, social and rehabilitative needs of clients, taking into account the needs of family, local community and developing care plans and evaluation of these plans.

o To be able to assess and case manage clients who inject club drugs, in particular assessing injection sites and be conversant with the precepts of harm minimisation, taking a predominant role in providing duty assessments to clients who are new to the service.

o To provide case management and direct clinical care to a defined number of clients as agreed with the Service Co-ordinator and under the supervision of a designated professional within the team. This includes assessment, planning and providing specialist care. It is expected that the caseload will consist of clients with needs of a low to medium complexity.

o To use agreed and established Outcome Monitoring Tools and any other relevant quality measures.

CNWL Addictions Directorates

The Addictions Directorate within CNWL Foundation Trust is a large, well established provider which offers a wide range of specialist NHS drug and alcohol treatment interventions to the diverse and multicultural populations in Central and North West London. Our drug and alcohol services include 7 community services, 1 in-patient service. We also run a national Gambling Service and a club drug clinic.

Our substance misuse services are dedicated to helping reduce the harm caused by substance misuse dependency; helping people overcome their dependency on substances and helping clients and their families rebuild their lives and enable recovery. We are committed to working in partnership with other providers and service users in local systems of treatment and recovery.

CNWL is committed to providing high quality, evidence-based treatment options and is a learning organisation which promotes staff competence and training and values clinical governance, audit and research. We are linked with Imperial College, University of London and are committed to evaluating our services and developing new and innovative approaches.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.