Drug and Alcohol Recovery Worker

We are looking for an enthusiastic person who has experience of working with people with substance use problems and/or experience of working with complex mental health presentations in a community, inpatient, or forensic setting. We are particularly interested to hear from applicants who have experience working with third sector/charity substance misuse organisations, and those who are representative of the diverse population we serve.
The post holder will be part of a large, dynamic clinical team across the forensic inpatient setting including medium and low secure wards, working with service users with forensic histories and severe and enduring mental health problems. The primary role of the post holder will be to offer assessment and intervention to forensic service users who have difficulties with substance use who are being provided treatment within the forensic inpatient services. The post holder will also provide consultation to other professionals across the clinical teams to enable them to understand and manage the risks and needs associated with service users' substance misuse. The post holder will be part of forensic directorate's Drug and Alcohol Service working alongside the East London Community Forensic Service Drug and Alcohol team, a multi-disciplinary, specialist team, with access to rich supervision and CPD opportunities., 1. Under supervision, to undertake specialist assessment and formulation of inpatient forensic service users' substance use problems.
2. Under supervision, to deliver psychosocial interventions for substance use in both individual and group format.
3. To provide consultation, support, and advice in relation to substance misuse issues to the forensic service, including ward multidisciplinary teams and relevant health professionals and other agencies as appropriate., Clinical
DIRECT
+ Under supervision, to undertake specialist assessment and formulation of substance misuse in inpatient service users.

+ Under supervision, to make appropriate recommendations for treatment thereafter, that are evidence-based, clinically indicated, and that complement service users' broader therapies care plans.

+ Under supervision, to develop and deliver, adapted where necessary, individual and group, evidence-based psychosocial interventions for substance misuse to service users in inpatient and community settings. Models of intervention should include motivational interviewing, cognitive behavioural therapy, contingency management, and systemic interventions, where appropriate.

+ To work collaboratively with members of multidisciplinary teams and other therapies staff, where indicated, to achieve the above goals.

+ With support, to be able to use, interpret and report selected psychometric measures/tools at the relevant stages of service users' care pathway, including at assessment, and before and after any intervention.

+ Responsible for communicating across language and cultural barriers with service users or carers, using interpreters when necessary, and to work in a culturally sensitive and competent manner.

+ Responsible for communicating complex clinical information, such as assessment, formulation, progress/outcome of treatment, in a skilled and sensitive manner to a variety of recipients including service users, family or carers, other professionals, formal panels, statutory and voluntary organisations, in a format appropriate to the recipient, verbally, in writing, or electronically.

INDIRECT
+ To be involved in the discussion about, screening of, and accepting or rejection of referrals.

+ To provide specialist input to service users' risk assessment through liaison with multidisciplinary teams and attendance at key meetings, where appropriate. Such input is to include feeding in to risk formulations and risk management strategies that require the resources of the Drug and Alcohol Service.

+ To provide consultation, support, and advice in relation to substance misuse issues to the forensic service, including ward multidisciplinary teams, , and relevant health professionals.

+ With support, to participate in the development, delivery, evaluation, and review of packages of training on areas within the Drug and Alcohol Service's specialty, to be delivered to a wide range of audiences, both within and outside the forensic service. Such training should be co-produced and co-delivered with service users, where appropriate.

+ To involve families and carers in treatment plans, where indicated. This may require direct family interventions in conjunction with the Family Therapy Service, or the provision of information/education on substance misuse.

+ Develop and maintain the highest standards of practice by continuing to gain additional experience and skills; by participating in regular clinical and professional supervision and appraisal; by active participation in internal and external CPD activities; and by updating knowledge of current developments in areas relevant to the role, through a personal development plan agreed with management.

+ To exercise professional self-governance in accordance with Trust policies and procedures.

+ Develop and maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies and issues in relation to forensic and general mental health services and the criminal justice system.

Administration
+ To write progress notes and formal reports of your clinical work, under appropriate supervision.

+ Organise time and resources to provide safe, effective, high quality care.

+ To attend Drug and Alcohol Service meetings, away days and teams' reflective practice sessions where practicable.

Management
+ To work with other members of the Drug and Alcohol Service to support its development in regards to the service model, policies and procedures that surround its work.

+ To engage in regular supervision with your line manager who will support you to develop your clinical skills.

Human Resources
+ To always conduct oneself in a professional manner while at work.

+ To abide by all Trust and local policies and procedures.

Performance and Quality
+ To participate in formal audit and/or evaluation of the Drug and Alcohol Service's clinical outcomes and performance.

+ To participate in Quality Improvement (Improvement Science) activities relevant to role and work area, or to propose and lead Quality Improvement projects where areas of need are identified.

Financial and Physical Resources
+ To be responsible for keeping updated in Breakaway techniques and any relevant MAPPA training and to be able to cope with a physically and emotionally high risk environment, ensuring at all times to the best of your abilities, your own, other staff and service user safety within Trust policy and guidelines.

+ With the assistance of supervision, to have the capacity to engage with and contain emotionally charged, often traumatic, clinical material in the course of performing the clinical duties of the role.

Making Things Better
Quality Improvement is a key part of our work to improve our services and refine how we do things. We have a global reputation for our quality improvement work and we don't stand still! So we offer a fantastic opportunity for our staff to learn, lead and contribute towards improving our services.
We launched our Five Year Strategy in April 2018, which identified four main strategic outcomes to improve: population health outcomes, experience of care, staff experience and improve value. This complements the NHS Long Term Strategy and sets out our direction of travel.
Our Community
We provide a wide range of community health and mental health inpatient services to children, young people, adults of working age, and older adults in The City of London, Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets, Bedfordshire and Luton. We also provide psychological therapy services to the London Borough of Richmond, and provide Forensic services to the whole of North East London. We provide services in urban and rural settings, sometimes in our inpatient units, but mostly in the community close to where people live. Integrated care is key in making the best use of resources and providing effective care.
Aiming High
We were rated 'Outstanding' by the CQC in 2016, were proud to be rated 'Outstanding' again in 2018 and continue to be rate 'Outstanding' in 2021.. We were named in the HSJ's Top 10 best places to work in healthcare and were voted Provider Trust of the Year in 2018.
Staff and Service Users United
We strive to ensure that staff feel valued by the Trust and as they are truly pivotal in delivering better outcomes for our patients and service users. Our aspiration is to help to make ELFT the best place to work. This Trust is clinician-led and provides the highest possible level of clinical expertise throughout its services. We pride ourselves on our service user involvement. A service user will be on your assessment centre and interview panel if you are invited to meet us.
We especially welcome people with lived experience of health difficulties, with insight and understanding of different backgrounds, cultures and lifestyles in our population as we believe that this will equip staff to deliver a high standard of care to our service users and patients.
Diversity
ELFT Is committed to being a diverse organisation and our workforce is reflective of the population and communities we serve. We believe that having colleagues with a range of backgrounds and life experiences enriches and adds value to the outcomes we have set out to achieve. Having partnered and endorsed by organisations who are representative and experts in various areas of equality and diversity, we can ensure we are meeting the pre-set standards all the way from recruitment stage throughout the career journey of our employees by being accessible, having fair inclusive practices and a host of staff networks to support, nurture and celebrate our valued staff in the workplace.
Other reasons to apply
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that's job share, part time or another flexible pattern.
As part of the relocation scheme we presently have, the Trust could support you with offering up to £10,000 for removal and associated expenses. This is subject to change and terms and conditions apply.

ELFT has long been recognised as a centre of excellence for mental and health care, innovation and improvement. So it is a very exciting time for you to come and work for us. Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations., Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.