EI Dual Diagnosis Practitioner

We are looking for enthusiastic, motivated, caring, and creative person to come and join us and help pioneer a newly developed clinical service, working with dual diagnosis clients in the UK's founding Early Intervention for Psychosis community team. Specifically, the post holder will work as a dual diagnosis specialist within the Lambeth Early Intervention community service, targeting clients experiencing their first episode of psychosis and using methamphetamines to improve outcomes and provide holistic support.
The post holder will provide specialist assessments and evidence based interventions to eligible patients within an Early Intervention team, liaise with other organisations and professionals to promote communication and good practice, undertake audit activity and data collection. The post holder will ensure that high standards of assessment and treatment are provided to people with co-existing mental health and use of methamphetamines, based on the best available evidence and using an assertive outreach approach. The post holder will provide education, training, support to this group of service users as well as supervising a peer support worker and co-ordinating a peer support group.
This is a Fixed term clinical position lasting for 2 years that also gives the opportunity to work alongside world leading experts in addiction and psychosis., · To provide comprehensive assessment of mental health and substance misuse issues specific to needs of service area.
· To undertake time-limited treatment specific work with clients with complex dual diagnosis needs namely Psychosis and Methamphetamine use whose care is co-ordinated by other members of the EIS.
· Undertake holistic assessments and risk assessments to help determine service and support needs and identify where these needs can be met.
· To be able to communicate with and meet the needs of families and carers as appropriate to the care group and the individual client.
To attend reviews, case conferences, network meetings, ward and community based multi-disciplinary meetings. Understand and participate in safeguarding processes.
To deliver specialist information, advice, assessment, caseload management, recovery and harm reduction, signposting and support with harm minimization. To coordinate peer support groups alongside a peer support worker.
· To have experience of and specialist knowledge on methamphetamine use and evidence-based interventions and lead on their dissemination across clinical areas., Post holder will provide ongoing specialist support and guidance to colleagues to enable staff to work effectively with people with complex needs. They will promote understanding of the effect that substance use can have on community support/treatment such as in engagement and risks to physical health. The post holder will work jointly around assessment, treatment, management and evaluation of support for people who present with dual diagnosis issues. They will provide support to people in line with the clinical pathways and best practice within the Early Intervention and substance misuse services including motivational interventions to enable people to engage with services and encourage change behaviour.
Adults with psychotic disorders often struggle to engage with the existing addiction services and therefore someone motivated and some experience in working creatively and assertively with this clinical population would be preferred.
The Trust is committed to providing services which embrace diversity and that promote equality of opportunity. We are a Disability Confident Employer, we welcome applicants from all sections of the community and people of all protected characteristics. We provide reasonable adjustments for candidates with a disability and are committed to treating people fairly with compassion, respect and dignity and in promoting equality and human rights. We aim to put this commitment into practice by:
+ Embedding our commitment to tackling inequality, eliminating discrimination and harassment; promoting equality of opportunity and fostering good relations in our everyday practice
+ Ensuring that all our services and all staff understand and support our commitment
+ We believe that people who use our services, their carers and our staff, should be treated with compassion, respect and dignity
Please note:
+ That all applications for this post will need to be made online
+ That you read and understand the Job Description and Personal Specification attached to the role. Your Statement in Support should reflect the requirements specified as your application will be judged against these criteria
+ That the closing date listed is a guide only and that the vacancy may close earlier should sufficient number of applicants have been received. We advise that you submit your application as early as possible
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+ That should you not have heard from us within three weeks from the closing date your application has not successful
+ That priority consideration for applications may be given to at-risk NHS employees
+ That should you be successful and appointed, you authorise South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust to confirm your previous NHS service via an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process
+ That we are a smoke-free Trust
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South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond.
We are committed to provide a high quality and specialist care to our service users and we are recognised for our care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as 'good'.
We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High; Changing Lives in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology to make a positive impact on patient care, outcomes and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will get the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported with learning and development to harness everyone's potential as change makers.
The trust recognises the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role. We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them as an asset to the Trust.
Our Values
We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen and do what I say I'm going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you'll be part of something special.
As a Trust we are happy to talk flexible working., The Borough of Lambeth is one of the most densely populated inner London boroughs, with a population of around 303,000. It has a striking cultural and ethnic diversity with 30% of people describing themselves as belonging to non-white ethnic group. Approximately 150 languages are spoken in the borough. After English the main languages spoken are: Portuguese, Yoruba, French, Spanish and Twi.
A wide range of health indicators highlight Lambeth as one of the most deprived areas in England. For example, compared to national averages, the area has lower socio-economic status and higher unemployment; higher death rates from suicide and higher use of acute inpatient mental health services.
Lambeth Early Intervention Community Mental Health Team is one of the first of the 117 early intervention services rolled out across England over the last two decades. LEO aims to reduce the delays that people with psychosis experience in accessing good quality evidence-based care, provides intensive follow up for 2 years to maximize their chances of a full recovery to normal functioning, minimize the potential for relapse during the critical first years of their illnesses, and reduce the distress of carers.