Job summary
Employer heading
Senior Dual Diagnosis Practitioners - Inpatient Services
Band 7
Job overview
Manchester's Dual Diagnosis Liaison Service is looking to support three new posts within Inpatient Psychiatric Acute service and the Rehabilitation Division. Initial short term funding has been approved with a view to provide better and more integrated responses to those with co-occurring mental health, alcohol & substance use.
It is hoped that post holders will demonstrate effectiveness of the role and ongoing funding will be forthcoming.
Main duties of the job
The new senior practitioners will specialise in the facilitation of a co-occurring conditions clinic model.
They will offer dual assessment, formulation, brief intervention, extended intervention & planning to inform service inclusion requirements with the integrated drug and alcohol provider Change, Grow, Live (CGL).
Working for our organisation
Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH) Foundation Trust employs over 6,400 members of staff, who deliver services from more than 160 locations.
We provide inpatient and community-based mental health care for people living in Bolton, the city of Manchester, Salford, Trafford and the borough of Wigan, and a wide range of specialist mental health and substance misuse services across Greater Manchester, the north west of England and beyond.
Greater Manchester is one of the world's most innovative, original and exciting places to live and work. From the beauty of the surrounding countryside to the heart of the vibrant inner city with great shopping, entertainment and dining options.
Wherever you go you will experience a great northern welcome with people famed for their warmth, humour and generosity.
Our people enjoy their work, have opportunities to learn and develop their skills and are encouraged to generate new ideas that improve care for our service users.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Delivery of dual diagnosis case advice, in line with national best practice guidance, NICE and DoH guidance, and Trust policy, and in consultation with other dual diagnosis colleagues.
- Have a good working knowledge of approaches of support to people with co-occurring mental health, alcohol and drugs.
- Have a good working knowledge or desire to develop skills in motivational interviewing.
- Will provide supervision, consultation and advice to team members from all professional backgrounds, in order to facilitate high quality, comprehensive and prompt dual diagnosis assessments and interventions.
- Work collaboratively with colleagues and service leaders to agree and implement dual diagnosis plans that address the development and sustenance of high quality practice within the service, including structures that would help embed performance reporting into service monitoring systems.
- Work with colleagues to implement harm minimisation measures that ensure safe environments; minimising substance use on Trust premises and potential harms for service users, visitors, and staff.
- To carry a small, specialised caseload, when required, of clients with complex dual diagnosis disorders including clients presenting with high levels of risk and co-morbidity.
- To consider development of dual diagnosis champions in their role development, the development of the dual diagnosis group work initiative and the development of policy and practice within their host wards.
- To provide specialised dual diagnosis assessments of referred patients, based on appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex information from a variety of sources, including general assessment, self-report measures, rating scales and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the client’s care.
- To develop highly specialised formulations and advice for referred clients, based on an appropriate conceptual framework of the client’s problems and drawing upon extensive theoretical knowledge of different explanatory psychological and psychiatric models and specialist expertise in the implementation of evidence-based practice.
Person specification
Essential criteria
Essential criteria
- Mental Health work experience
Desirable criteria
- Motivational Interviewing experience
Essential to role
Essential criteria
- Substance Use experience
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Ben Metcalfe
- Job title
- Manchester Dual Diagnosis Liaison Service Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07816769964
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