Job summary
- Main area
- Substance misuse / Criminal Justice
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent: n/a
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 455-NLFT-0351
- Employer
- North London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Better Lives
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £37,259 - £45,356 Per annum Inclu HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 31/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Recovery Practitioner - Criminal Justice
NHS AfC: Band 5
Thank you for your interest in the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT). This is an exciting time to join us and be part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people. We will achieve this through the North London Way, as we:
- Collaborate at every level by living our values to create the right conditions for us all to work together.
- Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care.
- Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes.
- Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high-quality care across all our services.
- Ensure that research, quality improvement, and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services.
- Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do
We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer. We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers and more.
The North London Way to deliver: Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.
Our trust website is: https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/
Job overview
Working as part of Better Lives team which is the Community Substance Misuse multi-disciplinary team in Islington for service users with complex substance misuse needs.
The post holder will, using a range of generic and or specific tools be responsible for providing individual service user assessment and identifying, delivering, and evaluating care interventions. This will include providing direct care to service users.
The post holder will have a designated caseload of service users to Provide high quality, person-centred care to service users, responding to the individual and diverse needs and to their significant others, delegated by the Clinical Lead or designated supervisor/manager. They may also take on a care co-ordination role for a specific group of service users.
Main duties of the job
Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to plan, carry out and record proactive, assertive work to identify our clients within Criminal Justice settings and seek to bring them onto our caseload to commence key working and recovery planning with them
Working for our organisation
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:
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We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
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With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
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We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
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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 fall under our Criminal Justice satellites, for example, prison, approved premises, or probation.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to plan, carry out and record proactive, assertive work to identify our clients within Criminal Justice settings and seek to bring them onto our caseload to commence key working and recovery planning with them.
Prison in-reach targeting the key prisons where Islington residents reside to proactively identify and engage our client group and offer effective ways of bringing them onto our caseload and supporting continuity in their treatment and care needs on release.
Work with key professionals within the Prison estate such as Health Care Teams and Wardens to foster meaningful and effective partnerships.
Work with key professionals within London Probation and IOM Teams to identify substance using clients on their caseload and bring them onto our caseload to start offering targeting support to improve the physical, mental and emotional wellbeing.
As clients are identified and brought onto your caseload to support their Recovery and Care Planning
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Knowledge and experience of working within or alongside Criminal Justice settings.
- NVQ level 3 or equivalent training
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Ability to build and maintain good working relationships with colleagues in a multidisciplinary setting.
- Demonstrate an ability to liaise with other agencies and carers involved.
Desirable criteria
- Competent using computers and keyboards for entering personally generated data, generating and responding to emails, conducting web searches, storing data and retrieving data, producing reports etc
Experience and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Demonstrate an understanding and experience of the assessment of risk and the evaluation of care interventions
- Knowledge of current criminal justice processes, policy and ways of working
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of interest in and ability to contribute to service development
- Experience working in a Criminal Justice setting e.g. prison, approved premise, probation
- Experience of prescribing for OST
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
- Rachel Willems
- Job title
- Criminal Justice Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07967 845 786
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
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Candi & Tavi
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