Homeless Drug - London, United Kingdom - Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust

Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust

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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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BEH -MHT delivers specialist drug and alcohol treatment services.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Recovery Worker to join our new rough sleepers' team which is part of our established and psychosocial team at The Enable.

We are looking for dynamic workers to join our multi-disciplinary team with a strong commitment to providing high quality treatment with a client centred approach working specifically with rough sleepers.

Enable is a Substance Misuse Service which is run in partnership with Humankind.

We operate in Enfield to provide a wide range of substance misuse services to local residents including, substitute prescribing, community detox, criminal justice, community care assessments, a comprehensive group work programme, primary health care as well as a wide range of interventions to non-opiate and alcohol users.

We have recently been awarded funding to work with rough sleepers in community settings hence this post will require working from a variety of sites in Enfield.

This is a part time job for 3 days a week.

Work as a member of a specialist drug & alcohol team, providing information, advice, assessment, caseload management, recovery and harm reduction services to drug & alcohol users who are sleeping rough or have a history of homelessness.
Work in partnership with homelessness and health providers, and other relevant agencies to engage this vulnerable and complex population in treatment, working collaboratively to break down barriers and develop innovative and robust pathways to engage this client group in treatment.
Be responsible for undertaking drug & alcohol assessments of homeless service users, in partnership with homelessness and other health providers and will develop and implement complex, responsive and service user focused treatment and recovery plans.

You will need to hold a relevant qualification and will have experience of working within a community drug & alcohol service and opiate substitute prescribing as will as working with rough sleepers.

BEHMHT is a multiple award-winning, combined mental health (MH) and community Trust providing local, regional and national healthcare services.

We are one of the largest employers in North London with over 3000 staff delivering a range of mental health and community services to a population of over one million.

In Enfield, we provide a full range of child and adult community health services, which over the last few years has been integrating with its mental health services to provide better and more holistic care.

BEH manages the renowned North London Forensic Services (NLFS) which delivers MH care across some of the prisons and provides MH services as HM Young Offenders Institutions in Aylesbury.

We are rated as 'Outstanding' by the CQC.

We have also been appointed as the lead provider of forensic mental health services across North London managing the devolved New Models of care budget of £170m from 2018/19.

Please kindly refer to the job description and person specification by clicking on the link attached.