Substance Misuse and Mental Health Practitioner - Nottingham, United Kingdom - Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
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Nottingham, United Kingdom

1 month ago

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An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dedicated and enthusiastic Substance Misuse Practitioner to take a lead role in providing the successful and effective delivery of Substance Misuse services and Dual Diagnosis in Clayfield's Local Authority Secure Children's Home.


You will be joining as a Dual Diagnosis nurse within a multi-disciplinary Health Team in a secure Childrens home setting.

Providing care to young people with complex substance misuse and mental health problems, from the point of entry into Clayfield's House to re-entry into the community so that offending is reduced, and the health and social functioning of young people is improved.


A high-quality patient care will be delivered through assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating care for young people with substance misuse and mental health co-morbid problems working to both harm reduction and health promotion / recovery agendas.


This post will support the Health Team in delivering an effective multi disciplinary team approach to the care of Young people within Clayfield's House.


We have a huge variety of opportunities in our expansive Trust covering geographically from South Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire to Leicester, providing mental health inpatient and community services, community health services, forensic mental health services and secure prison healthcare across the East Midlands.


We have more than 100 sites and a huge scope of unique opportunities to develop your career and gain some amazing experiences.

We strive to be a great place to work and offer many staff benefits and tailored staff support and wellbeing programmes.

Do you want to make a difference?

Do you believe in Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork?

Then Nottinghamshire Healthcare is the perfect place for you to start, maintain or further your career. Join our team of nearly 9000 who are making a difference every day. We are all about our people - our staff, volunteers, carers, service users and patients. We are NottsHC.

To provide expertise and contribute to substance misuse being systematically identified and responded to in a timely, evidence-based manner.


To implement systems to ensure all service users are being assessed for alcohol and drug use as part of a comprehensive assessment and information is recorded in line with Trust standards.

To provide specialist assessment and clinical formulation to clients with complex mental health needs and co-occurring substance misuse.

To provide expertise and contribute to development of effective care plans to support patients with co-existing substance misuse/mental health


Forge strong links with partner substance misuse services - it is expected that the post holder will spend a proportion of their time working within partner agencies to deliver training, advice and consultation in relation to mental health.

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