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Work across mental health and substance misuse treatment, linking in with housing teams and CGL ( Change Grow Live)to provide a mental health element to the wrap around support for patients.
Specialist Health/Social Care Dual Diagnosis Worker An opportunity has arisen for a specialist post working across health and social care with clients presenting with complex health and social care needs often with multifactorial diagnoses. You will be based across several teams and deliver high quality care to the wider community. This will mean producing high quality work in terms of the Care Act Assessment, an understanding of CPA as well as associated legislation. You will be assisting worker mangers and senior staff with challenging cases in terms of dual diagnoses and the ability to respond promptly to crises as well as hospital discharges. You will need excellent clinical case management skills and may have to carry a small caseload of highly challenging and often risky cases.
Reporting to a Team Manager you will help reshape the way we deliver services to our clients in a post COVID world. This will involve working to improve the life chances of those with complex needs in terms of employment, accommodation, meaningful activities as well as person centred services utilising best practise. You will have excellent communication skills. This will include producing high quality care plans and working with families and networks against a backdrop of competing demands.
The Post Holder Will Be Expected To
- Submit brief monthly reports to demonstrate progress/outcomes and highlight issues
- Work across mental health and substance misuse treatment, linking in with housing teams and CGL ( Change Grow Live)to provide a mental health element to the wrap around support for patients
- Outreach element with 1-2 days doing home visits with police officers
- 1 day a week at police station with IOM colleagues
- 1 day a week at mental health Single Point of Access to do assessments to improve engagement into treatment and early intervention.
- Supporting into combined mental health and substance misuse treatment and linking in with adult social care, housing, rough sleepers teams as needed to provide a mental health element to the wrap around support for the individual.
- Significant liaison with adult care management
- No caseload (or very small focused caseload if decided to be achievable) – scope will be initial engagement and brief intervention and then passing onto teams/key workers
- Attend monthly partnership meetings to review progress
- Element of training and teaching
Probationary Period
This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).
Starting with NELFT
NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Robin Sookhan Job title: Assistant Director MH and LDS - Waltham Forest Email address: Telephone number:
Extension: 68473
Specialist Health/Social Care Dual Diagnosis Worker
An opportunity has arisen for a specialist post working across health and social care with clients presenting with complex health and social care needs often with multifactorial diagnoses. You will be based across several teams and deliver high quality care to the wider community. This will mean producing high quality work in terms of the Care Act Assessment, an understanding of CPA as well as associated legislation. You will be assisting worker mangers and senior staff with challenging cases in terms of dual diagnoses and the ability to respond promptly to crises as well as hospital discharges. You will need excellent clinical case management skills and may have to carry a small caseload of highly challenging and often risky cases.
Reporting to a Team Manager you will help reshape the way we deliver services to our clients in a post COVID world. This will involve working to improve the life chances of those with complex needs in terms of employment, accommodation, meaningful activities as well as person centred services utilising best practise. You will have excellent communication skills. This will include producing high quality care plans and working with families and networks against a backdrop of competing demands.
The Post Holder Will Be Expected To
Probationary Period
This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).
Starting with NELFT
NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Robin Sookhan Job title: Assistant Director MH and LDS - Waltham Forest Email address: Telephone number:
Extension: 68473
An opportunity has arisen for a specialist post working across health and social care with clients presenting with complex health and social care needs often with multifactorial diagnoses. You will be based across several teams and deliver high quality care to the wider community. This will mean producing high quality work in terms of the Care Act Assessment, an understanding of CPA as well as associated legislation. You will be assisting worker mangers and senior staff with challenging cases in terms of dual diagnoses and the ability to respond promptly to crises as well as hospital discharges. You will need excellent clinical case management skills and may have to carry a small caseload of highly challenging and often risky cases.
Reporting to a Team Manager you will help reshape the way we deliver services to our clients in a post COVID world. This will involve working to improve the life chances of those with complex needs in terms of employment, accommodation, meaningful activities as well as person centred services utilising best practise. You will have excellent communication skills. This will include producing high quality care plans and working with families and networks against a backdrop of competing demands.
The Post Holder Will Be Expected To
- Submit brief monthly reports to demonstrate progress/outcomes and highlight issues
- Work across mental health and substance misuse treatment, linking in with housing teams and CGL ( Change Grow Live)to provide a mental health element to the wrap around support for patients
- Outreach element with 1-2 days doing home visits with police officers
- 1 day a week at police station with IOM colleagues
- 1 day a week at mental health Single Point of Access to do assessments to improve engagement into treatment and early intervention.
- Supporting into combined mental health and substance misuse treatment and linking in with adult social care, housing, rough sleepers teams as needed to provide a mental health element to the wrap around support for the individual.
- Significant liaison with adult care management
- No caseload (or very small focused caseload if decided to be achievable) – scope will be initial engagement and brief intervention and then passing onto teams/key workers
- Attend monthly partnership meetings to review progress
- Element of training and teaching
Probationary Period
This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).
Starting with NELFT
NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Robin Sookhan Job title: Assistant Director MH and LDS - Waltham Forest Email address: Telephone number:
Extension: 68473
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