(COMHAD) Specialist Practitioner inWoolwich inWoolwich PUBLISHED WED 8 JAN 2025

Band 7: £51,883 to £58,544 a year pa inc FIXEDTERM
MENTAL HEALTH MULTI-DISCIPLINARY NHS

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust rGNKMGB5

The COMHAD Specialist Practitioner role at Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust in Woolwich is focused on delivering specialized substance misuse and mental health interventions within the Complex Emotional Needs Service. The practitioner will undertake assessments, provide individual and group interventions, and work independently while collaborating with substance use and mental health services to ensure clients receive comprehensive support. They will also engage in multi-disciplinary efforts, enhancing the skills of colleagues across multiple teams and advocating for equal access to mental health services for individuals affected by substance use, reinforcing the ethos that substance misuse is a collective responsibility.

The position emphasises promoting the COMHAD principles of "no wrong door" to service access, ensuring that all individuals, regardless of their substance use, can connect with mental health resources effectively. The specialist will play a pivotal role in fostering a collaborative environment and driving initiatives that support both service users and the wider mental health community in Greenwich, Bromley, and Bexley.

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'.

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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 everybodys business.

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