This role of COMHAD Specialist Practitioner is within the Greenwich Mental Health Hub. It focuses on delivering expert substance misuse and mental health interventions, providing specialist consultation, assessments, and both individual and group‑based short‑term interventions.
Responsibilities
* Deliver expert substance misuse and mental health interventions and provide specialist consultation.
* Carry out assessments and deliver individual and group‑based short‑term interventions.
* Collaborate independently and with substance partners and other mental health services to ensure clients affected by substance use receive appropriate support and care.
* Actively participate in multidisciplinary work, build the skills and knowledge of colleagues throughout the Hub, and promote COMHAD interventions with flexibility and creativity.
* 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.
* Co‑facilitate and support the delivery of substance‑focused recovery groups, working creatively to sustain engagement and regularly reviewing programmes to incorporate best practice.
* Work in conjunction with Hub and broader partner agencies to deliver robust joined‑up care for service users who experience co‑occurring difficulties.
* Be an accessible resource across the Hub and associated services, providing specialist substance knowledge, training, and actively promoting integrated access and support for clients who may be misusing substances and experiencing mental health challenges.
* Encourage and promote service users’ broader engagement with physical health and well‑being themes, signposting and referring to other health professionals as appropriate, utilising existing pathways and creating new pathways where required.
* 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.
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