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Specistlist Addictions Practitioner

Employer
Leeds & York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Location
Leeds
Salary
£25,655 to £31,534 a year PA
Closing date
15 Aug 2022

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Grade
Band 5
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 5 post within the Forward Leeds Specialist team, providing a Hospital In reach role. The successful applicant will join a well-established team that works in Leeds teaching hospital (LTHT).

Forward Leeds is a partnership organisation which has recently gained an outstanding CQC status. The Specialist team is part of Leeds and York Partnership NHS Trust which has a national and international reputation in Addiction and Co-Occurring Mental Health Alcohol and Drugs (COMHAD) treatment.

This new post will focus on supporting patients, who have been referred to the Hospital In Reach team by LTHT, to engage in community addiction treatment with Forward Leeds post discharge from hospital.

Main duties of the job

The team accesses medical advice from the Consultant Psychiatrist of The Specialist team from Forward Leeds

The hospital environment can provide the practitioner with a good opportunity to develop and deliver addiction interventions such as Motivational Interviewing, Behavioural Analysis, SBNT, Cognitive Behavioural Coping Skills, and Relapse Prevention interventions for those services users who areadmitted for a prolonged period, thus capitalising on an admission to cease or stabilise their drug or alcohol use.

This new job role will be the link between the Hospital In reach team and the community-based service of Forward Leeds, the successful candidate will hold a small caseload delivering non-structured psychosocial interventions to patients to support them entering structured treatment in the wider Forward Leeds service.

Initial contact with patients will be made within LTHT or through handover from other members of the Hospital In-reach team however ongoing patient contact can occur outside the hospital in Clinics at Forward Leeds, in other LYPFT sites, in the patient's home or through telephone or online communication.

Excellent training, supervision and support from an experienced team based in a clinical centre of excellence will be offered

The role is currently Mon-Fri 9am -5pm, however as the role is new there may be opportunity to align with the 7 day week that the Hospital In-Reach Team provides.

About us

We are a high quality, high performing NHS foundation trust. We are the main provider of specialist mental health and learning disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist inpatient services in York as well as some highly specialised services across the country.We employ around 3,000 staff and every year we have contact with over 25,000 service users. Our vision is to provide outstanding mental health and learning disability services as an employer of choice. Our ambition is to support our service users and carers, our staff and the communities we serve to live healthy and fulfilling lives. We need people like you to help us achieve our goals; to live our lives free from stigma and discrimination; and to improve the lives of people with a learning disability and mental ill health. We perform well againstlocal and national targetsand inour most recent CQC inspection, 85% of our services were rated good or outstanding.As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching,research and development.

Job description Job responsibilities

  • Liaison with Forward Leeds, LTHT and LYPFT, as well as other professionals and statutory and non-statutory bodies.
  • Positive attitude to the client group
  • Collaboratively plan and offer advice and support to LTHT for service users who are using drugs or alcohol. This will be carried out in liaison with other multidisciplinary team members and the medical teams at LTHT. Team meetings and regular clinical supervision will provide the opportunity to discuss service users and their specific needs
  • Able to communicate with service users who may be distressed and who may, on occasion, present with challenging behaviour
  • Demonstrate a high level of communication skills both internally within the Trust and externally with other professionals, providers and agencies
  • Adhere to Professional, Trust and service specific policies and procedures, including the reporting of incidents and accidents, complaints and the management of confidential information.
  • Attend and contribute to meetings of own professional discipline to discuss contemporary issues and sharing of good practice
  • RMN/RGN or other equivalent Health Care professional qualification
  • Evidence of/ or to exhibit a desire to achieve relevant addiction experience in delivering psychosocial interventions
  • Be able to demonstrate effective working partnerships within a multi-disciplinary team, to achieve an integrated, effective, and efficient service.
  • Be able to demonstrate a broad range of administrative, clinical, for the post in question and evidence to support this.
  • Provide specialist clinical expertise with the provision of assessments, care planning evaluation and arrange follow up to patient
  • Deliver a range of evidence led psychosocial interventions and with guidance from senior team members initiate pharmacological interventions
  • Provide advice and consultation on aspects of addiction interventions relating to alcohol dependence and other substances to colleagues within the specialist team, Forward Leeds, LYPFT and LTHT, this will include psychological and pharmacological interventions


Person Specification Qualifications Essential
  • Registered Nurse-RMN or RGN-or other professional allied Healthcare professional
  • Can demonstrate a good knowledge or a desire to gain knowledge of how Substance Use issues can impact on people's lives
Skills Essential
  • As addiction work is largely talking therapies, and this role incorporates liaison, candidate must demonstrate good communication skills
  • The successful applicant will work and communicate with multi-disciplinary teams across a number of organisations, applicants must demonstrate and ability to do this
  • The successful applicant must demonstrate an ability to make effective decisions when faced with potentially distressing/emotional presentations.


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