Job summary
Band 6 Substance Misuse Clinical Practitioner (permanent)
This is an exciting opportunity to take on a Clinical Practitioner post with a specialism in substance misuse within a service with a 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. It also has active social inclusion and user involvement programmes developed in partnership with service users and 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.
Main duties of the job
The post-holder will work as a Clinical Practitioner and have experience and expertise working with individuals with substance misuse. 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 post-holder 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 post-holder 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 psycho social and risk management advice to involved staff across agencies.
About us
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Kindly refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for further information on this role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Kindly refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for further information on this role.
Person Specification
Education
Essential
- Degree in a relevant subject or equivalent experience
- NVQ level 4 in Health and Social Care, and/or equivalent professional qualification (e.g. Health Care, Social Work, equivalent overseas qualification)
- Training in a model or approach relevant to drug and alcohol intervention, e.g. Motivational Interviewing, or CBT, or other psychosocial interventions.
Desirable
- Training in psychological formulation
- Training/courses in substance use and related issues
- Training/courses in management or supervisory practice
- Evidence of continuing professional development post-qualification
Experience
Essential
- Clinical employment within a forensic service, substance misuse team or dual diagnosis team
- Clinical risk assessment and management of vulnerable service user groups
- Working with service users with co-existing mental health and substance use problems
- Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team
- Experience of delivering individual and group interventions
Desirable
- Experience of working with service users with complex personality difficulties
- Experience of inter-agency working
- Experience of working with offending behaviour and with criminal justice agencies
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Knowledge of the theoretical frameworks of care of forensic service users with substance use problems and mental health problems
- Knowledge of current legislation and initiatives within substance misuse and mental health
- Competence in the assessment of risk
- Knowledge of the legal and ethical issues relating to issues around substance misuse in a forensic setting
Desirable
- Specialist knowledge of the theory and practice of desistance with offenders
Person Specification
Education
Essential
- Degree in a relevant subject or equivalent experience
- NVQ level 4 in Health and Social Care, and/or equivalent professional qualification (e.g. Health Care, Social Work, equivalent overseas qualification)
- Training in a model or approach relevant to drug and alcohol intervention, e.g. Motivational Interviewing, or CBT, or other psychosocial interventions.
Desirable
- Training in psychological formulation
- Training/courses in substance use and related issues
- Training/courses in management or supervisory practice
- Evidence of continuing professional development post-qualification
Experience
Essential
- Clinical employment within a forensic service, substance misuse team or dual diagnosis team
- Clinical risk assessment and management of vulnerable service user groups
- Working with service users with co-existing mental health and substance use problems
- Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team
- Experience of delivering individual and group interventions
Desirable
- Experience of working with service users with complex personality difficulties
- Experience of inter-agency working
- Experience of working with offending behaviour and with criminal justice agencies
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Knowledge of the theoretical frameworks of care of forensic service users with substance use problems and mental health problems
- Knowledge of current legislation and initiatives within substance misuse and mental health
- Competence in the assessment of risk
- Knowledge of the legal and ethical issues relating to issues around substance misuse in a forensic setting
Desirable
- Specialist knowledge of the theory and practice of desistance with offenders
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
