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The post holder would be working as a member of a Multidisciplinary Team in The Better Lives Substance Misuse Service in Islington with a focus on supporting people into treatment and improving substance misuse and health outcomes.Better Lives is the lead provider in a service made up of NLFT and third sector substance misuse agency Waythrough. There is a varied workforce including medical and clinical practitioners, psychologists, recovery practitioners, administrative, data teams and peer mentors. They will be responsible for providing individual assessment, identifying clinical interventions and direct care to service users who will have mental and physical health needs. The post holder would be expected to work across the different Better Lives sites in Islington. We are advertising for 2 roles - 1 to be based at Grays Inn Road and the other to be based at Seven Sisters Road.These roles are based within a busy Community Substance Misuse Service.The focus of the role will be that of individual assessment, intervention and evaluation of treatment, delivered within the framework of NICE guidelines. Incorporating evidence-based best practice and maximizing service user’s recovery and re-enablement, whilst ensuring that the service adapts to the demographic needs of our service users.They will be responsible for a defined caseload and they will formulate appropriate specific, highly specialist care and treatment plans; providing highly skilled and specialist interventions and care to service users with complex mental and physical health problems.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: We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that falls under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or 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.To be responsible for providing expert care in an area of designated expertise, in accordance with NMC code of professional conduct.To provide expert, autonomous and highly specialist clinical practice within a multi-disciplinary team to include:To be able to demonstrate and explain clinical reasoning in relation to professional input to a service users’ care plan when required to members of the team, trainees or others external to the organisation.To recognise and respond appropriately to challenging behaviour in line with Trust policies.To adhere to all Trust policies and procedures and requirements of professional registration such as the NMC.This advert closes on Sunday 23 Mar 2025.#J-18808-Ljbffr