Job Title: Substance Misuse Recovery Worker
Agency: North London NHS Foundation Trust
Location: London, United Kingdom
Salary/Rate: 35,763 – 43,466 £ / Year

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Job Summary

To work as a member of a multidisciplinary specialist drug team, providing information, advice, assessment, caseload management, recovery, and harm reduction services to drug users. To work across the treatment pathways to provide a range of interventions, including duty cover, substitute prescribing, 1:1 keywork sessions, facilitation of groups, community care, and GPSC.

Main duties of the job

• To work as an effective member of the multidisciplinary team, actively participating in team meetings, group supervision, and clinical team meetings
• To manage a caseload of service users with complex needs, completing comprehensive assessments, risk management, and treatment plans, as well as co-produced care plans with service users.

• To work with service users who are in Opioid Substitute treatment, substitute and non opiate. This includes testing service users for illicit drug use, liaising with pharmacies regarding dispensing and supervised consumption, GP liaison, and producing/issuing prescriptions under the supervision of a medical prescriber.

• To adhere to local safeguarding protocols to safeguard children and vulnerable adults. including the completion of safeguarding assessment tools, referrals to social services, and producing reports
• To work effectively with partner agencies and other professionals to ensure a joined-up approach to treatment and care planning

How to Apply;

Interested and qualified candidates should:
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