Dual Diagnosis Recovery Navigator | North London NHS Foundation Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 14 Awst 2025 |
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| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £35,763 - £43,466 per annum including Outer London Allowance |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 13 Medi 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | London, N15 3TH |
| Cwmni: | Camden And Islington NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Cytundeb |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7399307/455-NLFT-0347 |
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An exciting opportunity has arisen within BEH-MHT Substance Misuse services, for suitably qualified individuals to join our established and highly energetic dual diagnosis team in Haringey, as a Dual Diagnosis Recovery Navigator on a fixed term contract.
The post holder should be experienced in key working individuals having problems with substance misuse (essential requirement). Experience of working with individuals presenting concomitant substance misuse and mental health problems is desirable. You will be responsible for devising and implementing packages of care for clients with dual diagnosis presentations in a variety of mental health teams (Acute/inpatient, and community), and local Substance Misuse services and other partner agencies, under the line management/ supervision of the Senior Practitioner and oversight of the service Operational Manager.
The post holder will provide specialist liaison between mental health teams, substance misuse teams, and other providers in the borough of Haringey, focusing on Unmet Mental Health Need.
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT)is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.
Our Five-Year Strategy:
1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
1. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
1. We will offergreat placesto work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
Why NLFT?
• We develop andretainour staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
• We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
• NHS Discounts, generous annualleaveand NHS pension scheme
• Excellent internal staff network
In order tomeet the needs of the Trust you may berequiredfrom time to time to work atdifferent locationsto your normal place of work. This may mean that youare required towork at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield,Haringeyor Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.
The post holderwill be based in our Haringey service, andwill be embedded into local mental health (acute/community) services, with co-location in Haringey substance misuse services. They will ensure that high quality services are delivered to service users with a dual diagnosis.
The post holder will provide specialist liaison between mental health teams, substance misuse teams, and focus on Unmet Mental Health (MH) Needs, navigating to and from MH in Haringey.Theywill act as a specialist resource to address the broad spectrum of unmet MH need within those who are already within substance misuse treatment for drug issues in Haringey.The post will sit in the community teams and support and advise on cases where there is a MH need.
The post will have strong links with community mental health services like IAPT and Mind in Haringey. The post holder will also work with BUBIC to understand the mental health needs of their clients to help better manage these through training and pathway development.
The post holder will work with public health commissioned mental health services and support campaigns. They will also assist key workers whose client’s mental health is under the care of a GP.
The post holder will also provide training, advice and support in alignment with mental health and substance misuse teams in Haringey.
This post will hold a small caseload whereby they will focus in delivering structured psychosocial interventions including harm reduction strategies to those that were previously unable to access services by removing current barriers into treatment. This will reduce the potential for increased substance use and mental health related crisis and long-term reliance on statutory services.
The post holder will be responsible for undertaking substance misuse triage of service users, implementing and managing complex management plans in partnership with multidisciplinary teams in Haringey ensuring that effective and responsive plans are in place.
For more details, please refer to the post job description.
This advert closes on Thursday 28 Aug 2025