Co-occurring Mental Health, Alcohol and Drugs - Plumstead, United Kingdom - Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

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Plumstead, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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The COMHAD Specialist Practitioner post is an exciting new role designed to provide specialist substance misuse and mental health interventions within the Greenwich Mental Health Hub.

The post holder will offer specialist consultation, assessment and provide both individualised and group based short term interventions, working autonomously and collaboratively with substance partners and other mental health services to ensure that clients using or impacted by substance use receive appropriate support and treatment.

The role requires the Practitioner to engage in a high level of multi-disciplinary work, supporting and developing the skills and knowledge base of colleagues across the Hub and promoting COMHAD interventions in a flexible and creative manner.

The role also requires the Practitioner to champion parity of service access, and to ensure that service users who may be using substances are able to access the same level of mental health services as those who are not, promoting the core overarching COMHAD concepts of there being 'no wrong door' and that substance misuse is 'everybody's business'.

Oxleas - About Us

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people living in South East London and Kent and to people in prison.

Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies.

Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives.

Our 4,000 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, children's centres, schools and people's homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent.

We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs.

We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London.

We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families.

This is strengthened by our new values:

We're Kind
We're Fair
We Listen
We Care
To engage in specialist substance misuse and mental health assessment within the Greenwich Mental Health Hub, identifying levels of need, establishing care and treatment pathways and where required facilitating timely referral and access to community substance partners and secondary level mental health services.
To engage service users in personalised 1:1 psychosocial interventions to promote recovery and develop enhanced selfmanagement skills, promoting both abstinence and harm reduction pathways.
To cofacilitate and support the delivery of substance focused recovery groups, working creatively to sustain engagement and regularly reviewing programmes to incorporate best practice.
To work in conjunction with a range of both Hub and broader partner agencies, to deliver robust joined up care for service users who experience cooccurring difficulties.
To be an accessible resource across the Hub and associated services, providing specialist substance knowledge, training, and actively promoting concepts of integrated access and support for clients who may be misusing substances and experiencing mental health challenges.
To encourage and promote service user's broader engagement with physical health and wellbeing themes, signposting and referring to other health professionals as appropriate, utilising exiting pathways and creating and developing new pathways where required.
To develop partner services understanding of the impact of social and cultural diversity on patients and their carers' experiences of mental illness and substance use, and the services that provide care and treatment.