Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Addictions Social Work Pathway Lead
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Job Overview
CNWL aims to transform the experience of addictions care for children, young people and adults accessing our services.
The post holder will work to ensure that the teams work to agreed operational procedures offering a high standard and an integrated assessment and treatment service to people wanting support with addiction.
To ensure that responsibilities under the Care Act and other relevant legislation are delivered on to a high quality and standard. To develop positive relationships with partners services/agencies served by their borough ensuring that services to those practices are provided to the highest possible standard To deliver a model of providing advice and support to those partner services/agencies in relation to addictions. To deliver a model of working with service users of all ages accessing addictions services, ensuring that services are provided to the highest possible standard and attuned to the needs of service users and their families/carers. The post holder will be expected to have well developed clinical skills of their own in order to enable them to appropriately guide and supervise staff at all levels and, undertake clinical work of their own.
Main Duties of the Job
- To be the operational manager for the social work pathway within addictions, and ensuring that priorities are met.
- To lead multi-agency working and ensure effective liaison with other relevant agencies e.g. MH, third sector and universities
- To build relationships and collaborating partnerships with internal and external referrers and other organisations to support robust appropriating of referrals and enable successful signposting and risk management for this cohort
- The role will have line management responsibility
- To provide professional / management supervision to the team seniors and other staff including within the third sector as required
- To work within the relevant legislative frameworks (e.g. Mental Health Act (1983) Mental Capacity Act (2005), Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards, Care Act 2014 etc.)
- To promote a culture of service user choice and control within team members daily practice to be monitored and developed through supervision and appraisal
- To ensure that the team works within the relevant frameworks and policies for safeguarding vulnerable adults and take an active lead in this area
- To ensure that systems are in place for monitoring allocation, caseloads and clinical review processes
- To ensure that person-centred clinical supervision is given to staff in the team and to ensure that staff work to high standards of professional practice.
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Working for Our Organisation
CNWL is committed to the improvement of support and services across the Addictions directorate.
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities
- To work in partnership with and to actively promote MDT working
- To work actively in partnership with service users and their families/carers
- To engage directly with service users to ensure effective consultation regarding service standards and development
- To facilitate and enhance good team working and promote reflective practice
- To ensure strong links are maintained with Mental Health, Urgent Care and the Acute Care pathway teams.
- To ensure the team maintains close liaison with all local agencies that support service users adults, including the Police Services, primary care and voluntary sector organisations
- To maintain close liaison and address interface problems with CNWL and local authority services
- To ensure good working links with any other agencies who are providing services into the integrated mental health Hubs.
- To disseminate professional developments and changes in policy or legislation, information regarding services and community resources, to ensure that staff utilise these services or developments for the benefit of service users
- To provide expert advice and consultation in professional matters relating to the post holder’s discipline and expertise in addictions, and to ensure that expert information and advice is available for the other disciplines in the team
- To attend liaison meetings with other teams agencies, for example police, housing, learning disabilities etc
Person Specification
Training and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Undergraduate degree in relevant area (e.g. psychology, social work, occupational therapy, mental health nursing, youth work) (A)
- Post-graduate professional qualification in relevant area (A)
- Full registration with relevant professional regulatory body (e.g. HCPC, BABCP, AFT, UKCP, NMC, Social Work England, National Youth Agency) (A)
- Post-qualification training in clinical supervision (A)
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of training in therapeutic interventions appropriate to the age group (A)
- Evidence of training in therapeutic interventions for trauma (A)
- Evidence of training in facilitating groups (A)
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Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience working as a qualified (specialist) professional with young adults aged 16-25 years in a mental health context for a minimum of two years (A/I)
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for young people’s psychological care and treatment, both as a care coordinator and within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan (A/I)
- Experience of partnership/collaborative working and of building relationships across organisations
- Experience of providing teaching, training, and clinical supervision (A/I)
- Experience of offering consultation and liaison with members of multi-professional teams working with young adults aged 16-25 years (A/I)
- Experience of working within a multicultural framework (A/I)
- Knowledge of relevant legislation in relation to the 16-25 year old age group (A/I)
Desirable criteria
- Experience of professional and clinical leadership within a small team or within a function in a large team (A/I)
- Experience of working in different cultural contexts (I)
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Highly developed specialist knowledge, both theoretical and practical, of different models of understanding of addiction and mental health as applied to clinical practice
- Knowledge and capability to work systemically to meet the needs of service users and to empower referrers
- Knowledge of processes for different levels of risk, and ability to identify as appropriate
- Good understanding of primary, secondary care and third sector addiction services and the ways in which they interface
- Good awareness of current issues in policy and practice relevant to addictions
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- Ability to liaise with and manage complex professional networks in relation to individuals and their families
- Capacity to work independently, but have the skills to recognise the need to consult to professional colleagues from the multidisciplinary team and/or other departments within CNWL or to external agencies
- Ability to treat service users with respect and dignity at all times, adopting a culturally sensitive approach which considers the needs of the whole person
- Ability to create, develop and use a variety of complex multi-media materials for presentations in public and professional settings
- Advanced level use of databases and word processing software
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