Dual Diagnosis Homeless Outreach Practitioner | South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 21 Mai 2025 |
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| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £54,320 - £60,981 per annum inclusive of HCAs |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 20 Mehefin 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | London, SE11 5DL |
| Cwmni: | South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Cytundeb |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7144108/334-CLI-7144108 |
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We are recruiting for Dual Diagnosis Homeless Outreach Practitioner.
This is an exciting opportunity to join the award winning START Homeless Outreach Teams as an advanced practitioner, extending our service offer into Lewisham.
This is a borough based clinical role which focuses on providing a new pathway for individuals experiencing rough sleeping, mental ill health and substance use. This role is part of an ongoing pilot for Lewisham aimed at improving access to care for homeless clients, gathering data on service use and challenges and providing support to existing agencies working with this group in the borough.
1.To provide expertise and contribute to dual diagnosis within evidence-based practise for people rough sleeping in Lewisham
2.To provide specialist assessment and clinical formulation to rough sleeping clients with complex mental health needs and co-occurring substance misuse using a trauma informed outreach approach
3.To provide outreach clinics at the 999 Club and other settings as agreed
4.To provide complex case management and addressing Safeguarding for a small group of individuals who cannot be supported by third sector, CMHT or CGL alone
5.To lead the development of a robust and seamless pathway into care for homeless service users in the primary care group and are rough sleepers by effective collaborative planning and advocacy with local homeless, mental health and substance use services.
6.To work as an autonomous professional within guidelines of the relevant professional body and the policies and procedures of the service, taking full responsibility for own work.
7.To facilitate carers/family members’ involvement in assessment and care planning where appropriate and ensure they are offered information about support groups
8.To participate in the monitoring and review of any serious incidents that involve homeless dual diagnosis cases as appropriate
9.Maintain good relationships and clear lines of communication with other professional agencies and departments, providing specialist advice and support where appropriate.
Benefits:
We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance. There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. We want you to feel like you are part of a close knit team at SLaM. It’s important to us that you valued and appreciated and that are why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer
Some of our benefits are highlighted here:
Generous pay, pensions and leave, we offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package which is dependent on the role and length of service.
Work life balance, flexible working and support a range of flexible options, such as: part-time working and job sharing.
Career development, There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes
Car lease, our staff benefits from competitive deals to lease cars
Accommodation, our staff benefits from keyworker housing available which is available on selected sites
NHS discounts, with discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands though Health Service Discounts website.
Other benefits include:
Counselling services
Wellbeing events
Long service awards
Cycle to work scheme
Season ticket loan
Childcare vouchers
Staff restaurants
We look forward to receiving your application.
The role also aims to improve capability and knowledge for homeless people within existing Lewisham community provision, by advice, advocacy, role modelling and direct complex case management.
Central to this approach is a focus on inclusive health practice for people who are often not accessing treatment due to needs across several areas. This will require an outreach, trauma informed style of delivery and a willingness to work in collaboration with other homeless and 3rd sector colleagues to create seamless care pathways across the system.
They will engage with continuing CPD across dual diagnosis and homelessness best practice and promote a system understanding of the ways that rough sleeping and substance use can impact on recovery, wellbeing, safeguarding and physical health.
The post holder requires highly advanced communication and influencing skills as they will be required to work collaboratively with key stakeholders across professional and organisational boundaries, within and outside of the Trust. They will be able to skilfully and sensitively communicate highly complex and sensitive information to clients, carers and colleagues and galvanise support of staff and services within and outside the Trust.
The post holder will maintain regular contact with colleagues. This will include the team leaders, nurses, doctors and allied health professionals within the team. They will communicate regularly with the START Homeless Outreach CSL, other dual diagnosis practitioners in Lewisham and keep abreast of developments in the evidence base and changes in services provision.
The post holder will liaise, communicate effectively and update the CSL (START) on a frequent basis to feedback progress and highlight any areas of focus or concern.
The post Holder will maintain regular contact with other clinicians within the trust and other statutory/non statutory services including 999 Club, street outreach, Rough Sleeping Coordinator, GP homeless health service, inpatient wards, Community Mental Health Recovery and Support Teams, Home Treatment Team, GP Practices and Local A&E psychiatric liaison services.
They will regularly collaborate with partner agencies involved in the care of people experiencing homelessness and promote information sharing and joint working.
This advert closes on Monday 2 Jun 2025