Alcohol Care Team Recovery Practitioner - London, United Kingdom - Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

The applicant will be based working within West Middlesex Hospital with a variety of teams and services support patients with alcohol related admission.

The applicant will engage with patients at a variety of stages in their care from the Emergency Department through to the discharge lounge.

The service operates 7 days a week and the applicant will be required to work a shift pattern that includes evenings and weekends.

Our aim is to improve the health outcomes of patients and minimise potential returns to hospital admission using a variety of tools and skills, including: Brief intervention, enhance brief intervention, Motivational Interviewing, comprehensive assessment and onward referral.

The team also support patients admitted and undergoing medically assisted withdrawal from alcohol to support with discharge planning and relapse prevention with the aim of positive outcomes for the patient.

Working with service users to support social (re)integration, enabling them to lead meaningful and purposeful lives: promoting recovery, resilience, peer support and self-determination.

Carry out comprehensive service user assessments on patients who would benefit from community addiction services.
Training and support professionals to facilitated AUDIT C/AUDIT to support referrals to ARC Hounslow

Ensure that all aspects of confidentiality are adhered to and that consent to share information is a key element to building trusting therapeutic alliances.

Help individuals to develop recovery resources and access peer and mutual support groups to develop their own recovery capital.

Work and liaise with other agencies involved with the service user's broader care plan including health services, hospitals and GPs.

To carry out key harm reduction strategies such as running of the Needle Exchange and distribution of Naloxone, after completion of appropriate training or demonstration of relevant experience.

Coordinating data collection, and maintaining up to date information

The Addictions Directorate with CNWL Foundation Trust is a large, well-established provider which offers a wide range of specialist NHS drug and alcohol treatment interventions to the diverse and multicultural populations in Central and North West London.

Our Drug and Alcohol services include 7 community services, 1 in-patient service. We also run a National Gambling Service and a Club Drug Clinic.

Our substance misuse services are dedicated to helping reduce the harm caused by substance misuse dependency; helping people overcome their dependency on substances and helping clients and their families rebuild their lives and enable recovery.

We are committed to working in partnership with other providers and service users in local systems of treatment and recovery.

CNWL is committed to providing high quality, evidence-based treatment options and is a learning organisation which promotes staff competence and training and values clinical governance, audit and research.

We are linked with Imperial College, University of London, University College London and numerous other local universities and are committed to evaluating our services and developing new and innovative approaches.

JOB SUMMARY:

MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Carry out comprehensive service user assessments, including asset mapping of community resources and develop individual recovery plans that clearly identify how

Achieving each goal will enable progression in addressing substance use and re/integrating into the wider community.

Training and support professionals to facilitated AUDIT C/AUDIT to support referrals to ARC Hounslow

Facilitate AUDIT C/AUDIT and brief and extended brief interventions in the community and group work

Coordinating data collection, and maintaining up to date information

Working with service users to support social (re)integration, enabling them to lead meaningful and purposeful lives: promoting recovery, resilience, peer support and self-determination.

Ensure that all aspects of confidentiality adhered to and that consent to share information is a key element to building trusting therapeutic alliances.

Help individuals to develop recovery resources and access peer and mutual support groups to develop their own recovery capital.

Provide health education especially in regards to harm minimisation, blood borne viruses and overdose prevention.

To assist and carry out appropriate screening processes including DBST, urine and saliva tests, after completion of appropriate training or demonstration of relevant experience.

Work and liaise with other agencies involved with the service user's broader care plan including health services, hospitals and GPs.

To carry out key harm reduction strategies such as running of the Needle Exchange and distribution of Naloxone, after completion of appropriate training or demonstration of relevant experience.

Carry out clinics and satellites in partnership services such as Pharmacies, Community Events, places of w