Senior Recovery Practitioner / Shared Care | 455 North London NHS Foundation Trust

Better Lives is the lead provider in service made up of NLFT NHS and third sector substance misuse agency Waythrough. There is a varied workforce including medical and clinical practitioners, psychologists, recovery practitioners, administrative, data teams and peer mentors. They will be responsible for providing individual assessment, identifying clinical interventions and direct care to service users who will have mental and physical health needs. The post holder would be expected to work across the different Better Lives sites in Islington and in a number of GP surgeries offering Shared Care support. Primarily the post will be based at Grays Inn Road.

As a Senior Recovery Practitioner, the post holder will be responsible for supporting the Team Managers with more junior colleagues and new team members with complex case issues, ensuring that the wider team understands and operates to the requirements of the service operational policy and strategy, and that safe, evidence based, effective, culturally competent care is delivered in a timely manner to service users. They will contribute to governance and audit within the team, ensuring that team members are supported and developed to their potential and that new team members are comprehensively inducted and successfully integrated into the team.

The focus of the role will be that of individual assessment, intervention and evaluation of treatment, delivered within the framework of NICE guidelines. Incorporating evidence based best practice and maximising service user's recovery and re-enablement, whilst ensuring that the service adapts to the demographic needs of our service users.

They will be responsible for a defined caseload and they will formulate appropriate specific, highly specialist care and treatment plans; providing highly skilled and specialist interventions and care to service users with complex mental and physical health problems. This job description is written as an indication of the nature and scope of duties and responsibilities. Additional competencies may be required to fulfil the needs of specific areas and particular client groups. The post holder will be expected to carry out other duties assigned by their Clinical Lead and service Manager, which are appropriate to the professional competences and experience of the post holder.

The partnership betweenBarnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH)andCamden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I)is going from strength to strength since it was originally established in 2021 forming theNorth London Mental Health Partnership.

Why choose to join the Partnership?

· We believe that by working together, our two Trusts can achieve more for the residents of North Central London and our patients than we can by working apart.

· Deliver the best care using the most up-to-date practise in supporting those with mental health illnesses.

· Transforming and creating a positive environment for our service users, staff and visitors.

· Creating and working together to become a great place to work for all our staff.

· We offer flexible working, a wide range of health and wellbeing initiatives, NHS Pension and so much more.

· Generous Annual Leave Allowance

· NHS Discounts in a large variety of retail stores and services.

· We have excellent internal staff network support groups.

Thepostholderwillneedtobecomfortableworkinginanenvironmentofcomplexmatrixmanagement arrangements and will at all times behave and align with our Trusts' values andculturalpillars