COMHAD Specialist Practitioner
| Posting date: | 28 April 2026 |
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| Salary: | £55,524.00 to £62,652.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £55524.00 - £62652.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 12 May 2026 |
| Location: | Plumstead, SE18 1BH |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9277-26-0458 |
Summary
To engage in specialist substance misuse and mental health assessment within the Greenwich Mental Health Hub, identifying levels of need, establishing care and treatment pathways and where required facilitating timely referral and access to community substance partners and secondary level mental health services. To engage service users in personalised 1:1 psycho-social interventions to promote recovery and develop enhanced self-management skills, promoting both abstinence and harm reduction pathways. To co-facilitate and support the delivery of substance focused recovery groups, working creatively to sustain engagement and regularly reviewing programmes to incorporate best practice. To work in conjunction with a range of both Hub and broader partner agencies, to deliver robust joined up care for service users who experience co-occurring difficulties. To be an accessible resource across the Hub and associated services, providing specialist substance knowledge, training, and actively promoting concepts of integrated access and support for clients who may be misusing substances and experiencing mental health challenges. To encourage and promote service users broader engagement with physical health and well-being themes, signposting and referring to other health professionals as appropriate, utilising exiting pathways and creating and developing new pathways where required. To develop partner services understanding of the impact of social and cultural diversity on patients and their carers experiences of mental illness and substance use, and the services that provide care and treatment.