Casus Senior Substance Misuse Nurse Practitioner in Huntingdon

CASUS is a small multidisciplinary team of enthusiastic professionals who support some of our most vulnerable and under-served young people in the Cambridgeshire area. We work primarily with young people who are using substances, offering a comprehensive, holistic, needs-led assessment to all our clients and then working in a bespoke way to support them to effect the changes they are seeking around their substance use. Substance use is seen as a 'red flag' for multiple vulnerabilities, and we offer support in every domain of the young person's life including mental health, relationships, education, employment, training, etc. We also deliver training to professionals and education around substances and harm minimisation to our secondary schools. Our work is underpinned by the AMBIT model.

Main duties of the job:

• To provide treatment and interventions as part of the Cambridgeshire Child and Adolescent Substance Use Service - CASUS, a multi-disciplinary team working with children, young people and their families to address drug and alcohol use and co-occurring mental health problems, including the impact of adult substance misuse on children.
• The post holder will offer advice and consultation on the drug and alcohol needs of service users to colleagues and partner agencies and to other, non-professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.
• The team uses AMBIT - a mentalization based multi-component framework.
• The post holder will assist the Clinical Lead and Team Manager in the provision of clinical leadership, acting on behalf of and deputising, as directed and in their absence, and providing quality evidence-based treatment advice, support and care for service users' drug and alcohol needs and to their carers within a community setting.
• Working in conjunction with the Clinical Lead and the Team Manager to set, maintain and audit clinical standards in adherence to local and national priorities as well as having a working knowledge of local, national policies and legislation which govern current service provision.

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead fulfilling lives. Our clinical teams deliver a wide range of NHS services across inpatient, primary care and community settings, including children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, and research and development.

To achieve our goals, we recruit high calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we welcome applications from all sections of the community, particularly under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.

All appointments for new employees to CPFT are subject to the successful completion of a probationary period. Please note we reserve the right to close adverts early should we receive sufficient applications. Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all roles. If you apply for a post that does not attract sponsorship, your application will be withdrawn from the process.