We are excited to offer an opportunity for a qualified nurse, social worker or allied Health Professional to join our small, friendly, specialist team supporting children and young people with substance misuse issues in Cambridgeshire.

This post is suitable for a newly qualified practitioner, or an experienced professional looking for a new challenge.

The post holder will be part of CASUS -- Cambridgeshire Child and Adolescent Substance Use Service - a multi-disciplinary team working with young people and their families to address drug and alcohol use and co-occurring mental health difficulties. They will manage a client caseload including the assessment of care needs, the development, implementation and evaluation of care planned interventions. They will deliver targeted and specialist interventions to individual young people, groups of young people and parents/ carers.

The post holder will be expected to develop to be able to work independently, with the support of the team clinical leads and team leader and provide guidance to sessional workers and students.

Main duties of the job

CASUS is a small multidisciplinary team of enthusiastic professionals who support some of our most vulnerable and under-served young people in the Cambridgeshire area.

We work primarily with young people who are using substances, we offer a comprehensive, holistic, needs led assessment to all our clients and then work in a bespoke way to support them to effect the changes they are seeking around their substance use.

Substance use is seen as a 'red flag' for multiple vulnerabilities and we offer support in every domain of the young persons life including mental health, relationships, education, employment, training etc.

We also deliver training to professionals and education around substances and harm minimisation to our secondary schools.

Our work is underpinned by the AMBIT model:Adaptive Mentalization Based Integrative Treatment (AMBIT) | Anna Freud

About us

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting andempowering them to lead a fulfilling life.

Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.

To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.

Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.

For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.

1. To accept referrals and complete comprehensive assessments of substance use, need and risk.

2. To plan, implement and evaluate a holistic package of care for young people to address their substance use needs.

3. To liaise and formulate care closely with other agencies involved with young people and families, e.g Children's Services Locality teams, Social Care teams, Education settings, Youth Offending Service, CAMH, Primary Care, Non-statutory agencies.

4. To provide a range of evidenced based specialist therapeutic interventions, delivered using a mentalisation based approach such as AMBIT (Adolescent Mentalisation Based Integrative Therapy).

5. To carry out specialist interventions in outpatient, detached and domiciliary settings

6. To provide substance specific interventions such as information, advice, psychoeducation, reduction planning, harm reduction (including needle exchange and BBV) and relapse prevention.

7. To attend and contribute to safeguarding processes for young people and families as required.

8. To provide, with the team, substance specific family interventions for those young people engaged in treatment.

Person Specification

Education

Essential

• Registered nurse/SW/AHP

Desirable

• Experience of working with adolescents
• CBT/MBT training

Experience

Essential

• We would welcome applications from newly qualified nurses, AHP's or social workers who have a desire to work in this unique field.
• Interest in substance misuse work
• Interest in working with hard to reach young people

Desirable

• Working with young people who are considered hard to engage or vulnerable.
• Working with young people with emotional/mental health problems trauma and attachment difficulties.

Skills

Essential

• Ability to develop to be able to undertake comprehensive assessments of substance use needs, risk and need.
• Ability to develop to be able to deliver a range of effective interventions to address substance misuse such as Motivational Interviewing.
• Deliver interventions to individuals and small groups
• Deliver interventions in partnership with others
• Proven skills in engaging with hard to reach young people, adults or families
• Maintain accurate records.
• Ability to manage own time and use initiative to further effectiveness of the team.

Desirable

• Solution Focused, Brief Therapy Cognitive Behavioural Therapy experience
• Family systemic work.
• Development and delivery of targeted education and training to groups.
• Proven group work facilitation with young people.

Knowledge

Essential

• Demonstrate an understanding of the assessment framework for young people.
• Knowledge of evidenced based practice in the treatment of substance misuse for young people
• Clear understanding of the role of supervision in practice.
• Safeguarding issues related to substance misuse and young people

Desirable

• Understanding of Local children services networks in statutory and third sector.
• Understanding of Criminal Justice system for young people.
• Understanding of Adult substance misuse treatment network.
• Understanding of Child and adolescent development

Employer details

Employer name

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Newtown Centre, Huntingdon

Nursery Road

Huntingdon

PE29 3RJ

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310-CYPF-6468612