Band 5 Senior Recovery Worker

The North London Forensic Service is a NHS tertiary forensic mental health service based at Chase Farm Hospital in the London Borough of Enfield.
We provide care and treatment to people aged over 18 who have a primary diagnosis of mental illness or learning disability and who are liable to be detained under the Mental Health Act (1983). The service supports those whose risk of harm to others or escape from hospital cannot be safely managed in other mental health settings and therefore require care and treatment within a secure mental health service. The post holder will help deliver dual diagnosis services, ensuring that high quality services are delivered to service users with complex diagnosis. The post holder will work alongside the other members of the Substance Misuse (STAR-Team) team to offer evidenced based interventions to service users in the in-patient services. The post holder will assist the Team Lead to develop and maintain high quality standards of care.
The post holder will help deliver dual diagnosis services, ensuring that high quality services are delivered to service users with complex diagnosis. The post holder will work alongside the other members of the STAR-team to offer evidenced based interventions to service users in the in-patient services. The post holder will assist the STAR-Team Lead to develop and maintain high quality standards of care.
1.1. The Senior Recovery Worker role involves working with service users in the in-patient service of the North London Forensic Service who have issues relating to their use of drugs and/or alcohol. This can involve the screening and assessment of service users, 1:1 counselling sessions, delivering evidence-based interventions for substance misuse or co-facilitating group sessions. The key skills involved are the ability to establish and maintain therapeutic relationships with service users. A background in either substance misuse or mental healthcare is essential, as is a good knowledge of substance misuse models of care & treatment and a good understanding of illicit drugs.
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.
**Our Five-Year Strategy**:
We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.
In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.
To carry out initial screening and triage, and develop and implement treatment within the field of dual diagnosis (mental health and substance use/misuse) for service users identified as potentially having a dual diagnosis within NLFS.
To carry out substance misuse assessments, as appropriate
To provide one to one sessions with service users, ensuring that care and recovery planning in relation to Substance misuse is conducted on an individual basis according to the specific needs of the service user.
To communicate highly sensitive information requiring the development of persuasive or re-assurance skills to service users and colleagues.
To establish, sustain and disengage from therapeutic relationships with individuals.
To interact and co-operate with service users, relatives, and other professionals within NLFS and any community services as appropriate.
To have professional responsibility for promoting equality, diversity, and rights.
To work closely with ward-based nursing teams and multidisciplinary teams to support the implementation of substance misuse care plans
To design, implement and monitor treatment plans with service users that address their needs in relation to mental health and substance misuse problems.
To assess and act upon immediate risk of danger to service users and/or others.
To educate and give information to service users and others in the care of the client on issues related to mental health problems and substance misuse.
To support service users to engage in interventions aimed at addressing their substance misuse difficulties.
T o deliver structured psychosocial interventions including harm reduction/minimization strategies, motivational interviewing, CBT programmes, problem solving, behavioural interventions and counselling techniques as negotiated with individual service users.
To co-facilitate and support the delivery of group programmes throughout NLFS in-patient services and wi