(COMHAD) Specialist Practitioner

The COMHAD Specialist Practitioner post is an exciting new role designed to provide specialist substance misuse and mental health interventions within the Complex Emotional Needs Service. The post holder will offer specialist consultation, assessment and provide both individulaised 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 CEN and the ADAPT Teams in Greenwich, Bromley & Bexley and promoting COMHAD interventions in a flexible and creative manner., The role 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 offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. 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 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, 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