Job vacancy: Substance Misuse Practitioner, Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Retford | trac.jobs

Job summary Main area Secured Services Grade Band 5 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 270-TH032-HMPRAN Employer Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site HMP Ranby Town Retford Salary £32,073 - £39,043 pa pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing Today at 08:00 Employer heading Substance Misuse Practitioner Band 5 Job overview To participate in providing the successful and effective delivery of the Integrated Substance Misuse Services within Secured Services, delivering best practice psychosocial interventions to support the patients’ recovery journey. To provide high quality patient care with a strong focus towards harm reduction and health promotion / recovery agendas through comprehensive assessment, care-planning, implementation and evaluation of care for people with substance misuse problems. Please note this post is subject to security vetting. To be considered for this post you will need to have continuously resided in the UK without any breaks for a minimum of 3 years prior to this application and be able to evidence your years of residency. Please note without sufficient evidence your application may not progress. Main duties of the job To carry a psychosocial case load with responsibility for assessing, care-planning, implementing and evaluating patient care. To undertake comprehensive assessment of patients needs following referral to the service and completion formulations to advise patient care. To lead/co-facilitate group work relevant to substance misuse and offending behaviour. To effectively liaise and develop links with services, both internal and external, within the prison setting and in the community to establish effective through care and after care pathways. To act as a second check and signatory in the dispensing of controlled drugs in relation to substance misuse. To aid and support the Peer Mentor scheme through supervision of the peer mentors and involvement in recruitment and training. To provide information and advice about drugs, alcohol, smoking cessation and related issues, to include blood borne viruses and safer sex. To work in conjunction with the prescriber, attending 13 week reviews and SMS complex case meetings to ensure appropriate patient clinical care. To devise care plans, formulating from assessment and implement and review on a regular basis, in-line with patient needs. Working for our organisation NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire. NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients