North London NHS Foundation Trust
Substance Misuse Recovery Worker
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Role Overview
To work as a member of a multidisciplinary disciplinary specialist drug team, providing information, advice, assessment, caseload management, recovery, and harm reduction services to drug users. To work across the treatment pathways to provide a range of interventions including duty cover, substitute prescribing, 1:1 keywork sessions, facilitation of groups, community care, and GPSC.
Responsibilities
- To work as an effective member of the multidisciplinary team actively participating in team meetings, group supervision, and clinical team meetings.
- To manage a caseload of service users with complex needs, completing comprehensive assessments, risk management, and treatment plans, as well as co-produced care plans with service users.
- To work with service users who are in Opioid Substitute treatment substitute and non-opiate. This includes testing service users for illicit drug use, liaising with pharmacies regarding dispensing and supervised consumption, GP liaison, and producing/issuing prescriptions under the supervision of a medical prescriber.
- To adhere to local safeguarding protocols to safeguard children and vulnerable adults, including the completion of safeguarding assessment tools, referrals to social services, and producing reports.
- To work effectively with partner agencies and other professionals to ensure a joined-up approach to treatment and care planning.
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Trust Values
The Trust’s Values Are:
- Compassion
- Respect
- Being Positive
- Working Together
NHS Values
It is recommended that where possible the NHS values below are reflected in job descriptions. Please go to the NHS Confederation website for further information: www.nhsconfed.org.
Respect and Dignity
We value each person as an individual, respect their aspirations and commitments in life, and seek to understand their priorities, needs, abilities, and limits. We take what others have to say seriously. We are honest about our point of view and what we can and cannot do.
Commitment to Quality of Care
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We earn the trust that is placed in us by insisting on quality and striving to get the basics right every time – safety, confidentiality, professional and managerial integrity, accountability, dependable service, and good communication. We welcome feedback, learn from our mistakes, and build on our success.
Compassion
We find the time to listen and talk when it is needed, make the effort to understand and get on and do the small things that mean so much – not because we are asked to but because we care.
Improving Lives
We strive to improve health and well-being and people’s experiences of the NHS. We value excellence and professionalism wherever we find it – in the everyday things that make people’s lives better as much as in clinical practice, service improvements, and innovation.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Sabrina Miller-Cummings
- Job Title: Operational Manager
- Email Address: sabrina.miller-cummings@nhs.net
- Telephone Number: 02083796010
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