Job summary
- Main area
- Dual Diagnosis Community service
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 4
- Contract
- Fixed term: 3 years (3 years duration from the start of the contract start date)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (NA)
- Job ref
- 334-CLI-7477655
- Employer
- South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Marina House
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £33,094 - £36,195 per annum inclusive of HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/11/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 14/11/2025
Employer heading
Dual Diagnosis Practictioner
NHS AfC: Band 4
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond.
We are committed to provide a high quality and specialist care to our service users and we are recognised for our care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’.
We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High; Changing Lives in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology to make a positive impact on patient care, outcomes and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will get the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported with learning and development to harness everyone’s potential as change makers.
The trust recognises the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role. We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them as an asset to the Trust.
Our Values
We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen and do what I say I’m going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you’ll be part of something special.
As a Trust we are happy to talk flexible working.
Job overview
We are looking to recruit a Band 4 Dual Diagnosis Practitioner to be a member of the Cannabis Clinic for Patients with Psychosis (CCP) multi-disciplinary team, taking a leading role in the provision of on-going assessments, groups running , care planning, treatment delivery of the young adults with psychotic disorders and cannabis used referred to the service. Young adults with psychotic disorders often struggle to engage with the existing addiction services and therefore someone with experience in working with this clinical population would be preferred.
The Maudsley Charity recently awarded to the lead Consultant of this service and her team funding to carry out a Randomised Control Trial (RCT) of the service intervention.
This is a fixed term post is funded as part of this award to support the delivery of the Cannabis Clinic for Psychosis intervention to those referred to the service who have been enrolled in the RCT.
The post holder will join the Cannabis Clinic for Psychosis team as well as be part of the RCT, having the opportunity to learn about this new service as well as gaining experience in translational research.
Main duties of the job
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Work closely with the Trust dual diagnosis pathway practitioners and the Early Intervention Community Mental Health teams to promote awareness of the service and of the RCT and coordinate new referrals to the Cannabis Clinic for Psychosis
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Deliver the one to one intervention to those under the care of the service and participate in the weekly clinical group supervision where all the cases under the care of the service are presented
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Take part in the organization and expansion of the weekly PEER group open to the clinical population served by the CCP. The PEER group runs on ZOOM every Tuesday pm.
Working for our organisation
The post holder will be working with the Cannabis Clinic for Psychosis, highly skilled and knowledgeable multi-disciplinary team who will support them in their development and ability to deliver the best care to our service users while offering the post holder the opportunity to take part in research activities.
The Cannabis Clinic for Psychosis is part of the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM).
SLaM provides the widest range of NHS mental health services in the UK as well as substance misuse services for people who are addicted to drugs and alcohol. We work closely with the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London and are part of King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre. There are very few organisations in the world that have such wide-ranging capabilities working with mental illness. Our scope is unique because it is built on three major foundations: care and treatment, science and research, and training.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
In conjunction with senior staff, the post holder will co-ordinate new referral and join the delivery of care with a person centred healthcare model, learning to use complex clinical decision making where appropriate and responding to changes in presentation/ situation appropriately. To promote shared decision making with patients/relatives/carers, as appropriate, in terms of involvement in all aspects of their care.
In particular, the post holder will be involved under senior colleagues supervision in the clinical management of those suffering from their first episode of psychosis with cannabis use who have been referred to the Cannabis Clinic for Psychosis, because they wish to stop/reduce their use.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working in a NHS mental health setting with Dual Diagnosis Services
- Experience of using word processing and database use as well as a willingness to improve existing skill base A/I
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in an addictions community setting
- Experience of working in a team
- Experience in collecting research data for clinical settings
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- GSCE English and Math or equivalent Grade C or above
- BsC in Psychology
- Dual Diagnosis Training
Desirable criteria
- MsC in Early Intervention or Mental health studies
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of clinical intervention appropriate to the care of Dual Diagnosis patients
- Understanding of harm reduction, and relapse prevention in relation to cannabis dependence
- Effective assessment and engagement skills A/I
- Effective interpersonal skills
- Ability to organise and manage time effectively and work autonomously A/I
- IT skills in relation to clinical notes and report writing A/I
Desirable criteria
- Experience in running groups with Dual Diagnosis patients
- Up to date knowledge of the impact of cannabis use on psychosis outcome
- Use of power point and SPSS or other statistical
- Advanced clinical decision-making, leadership, training delivery
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Marta Di Forti
- Job title
- Professor
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07970211938
- Additional information
Please use Dr Marta Di Forti's email address to enquire about this post:
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