Alcohol, Drugs and Mental Health Liaison Practitioner

Job overview

This post has been commissioned as part of a newly funded initiative to offer an innovative, multi-disciplinary approach to meet the needs of substance using individuals in Islington to support them into treatment.

This post is designed to offer a responsive and proactive approach to working with this client group and improving their health, wellbeing, and outcomes by helping them access our services. The successful applicant will be an active member of the Better Lives team and take a proactive, outward facing role working with support to engage clients who have health needs that mean they are frequent attenders of hospitals for inpatient and emergency care and where their substance use has impacted on their health and become a barrier to treatment.

Main duties of the job

Better Lives is a busy multi-disciplinary team providing a range of interventions for drug and alcohol using clients in Islington . We want to increase on the existing offer, and this role seeks to build on that work to enhance the alcohol and drugs and mental health pathways to allow increased capacity and responsiveness when working with this client group.

The post holder will work collaboratively within the system, to improve collaboration and joint working arrangements between inpatient acute and mental health hospitals within the borough of Islington.

Your goal is to improve engagement, prevent readmissions to hospitals easier access to the service and improve on client outcomes.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Your goal is to improve engagement, prevent readmissions to hospitals easier access to the service and improve on client outcomes.

The team will work jointly with community groups, GPs, hospitals, mental health team to increase access and engagement with treatment. They will be flexibly deployed using an assertive outreach approach to work across the full range of health settings and provide a range of functions being co-located in relevant areas including assessments in external services and areas.

You will build treatment capacity by delivering structured psychosocial interventions and this will include in different settings.