Job summary
- Main area
- Nursing and Midwifery
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (0900 to 1700 with some evenings as necessary)
- Job ref
- 364-A-8025
- Employer
- Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- STaRS - Vange and Harlow
- Town
- Basildon
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/08/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Family Practitioner - Essex STaRS
Band 7
About Us
EPUT provides community health, mental health and learning disability services to support more than 3.2 million people living across Bedfordshire, Essex and Suffolk. Also:
- We are among the largest employers in the in the East of England region, with more than 10,000 staff working across more than 200 sites.
- We run the COVID-19 vaccination programme across mid and south Essex and Suffolk and north east Essex.
EPUT was formed on 1 April 2017 following the merger of North Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (NEP) and South Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (SEPT). A new leadership team was established at the Trust in 2020.
Our vision and values
Our Vision
“To be the leading health and wellbeing service in the provision of mental health and community care”.
Our Purpose
“We care for people every day. What we do together, matters”.
Our Values
- We Care
- We Learn
- We Empower
Our strategic objectives
- We will deliver safe, high quality integrated care services.
- We will enable each other to be the best that we can.
- We will work together with our partners to make our services better.
- We will help our communities to thrive.
Our services
- Mental Health Services
- Community Health Services
- Learning Disabilities Services
- Social Care
Find out more about the services we offer in our service directory.
Job overview
We are seeking to recruit an enthusiastic, motivated Social Worker or Nurse to work as a Family Practitioner within the Essex Drug and Alcohol Treatment service to provide a link with Children's and Family services within Essex.
As part of a holistic model of service delivery, this role is intended to deliver a more integrated approach to the delivery of family interventions within drug and alcohol services with a further focus on identifying and supporting the needs of the whole family.
The aim of the service is to reduce substance misuse related harms, and achieve improvement in the functioning of affected families, including their ability to manage their children and maintain their safety at all times. The service will also have a positive impact on the health, social, psychological, legal, criminal activity of these families.
The service is aimed at any family involved with Essex Children’s Social Care service with any additional needs related to drug and/or alcohol misuse.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be employed by Essex STaRS but will work between EEC's Children and Family Services and The Essex Drug and Alcohol Treatment Services :-
• To act as an expert consultant to social care staff across C&F in relation to parental substance misuse.
• To support social workers in their assessment and interventions with families where parental substance misuse is a dominant feature.
• To contribute to raising awareness and understanding about the impact of substance misuse on parenting across the social care service.
• To promote effective communication and joint working between Children’s Social Care and Adult Substance Misuse Services.
Working for our organisation
EPUT are looking for motivated staff who shares our Trust values of Care, Learn and Empower. In return, EPUT can offer you a range of benefits and development including;
- Season Ticket Loans
- NHS discounts for staff
- Excellent Training facilities and opportunities
- Buying and Selling annual leave scheme
- The opportunity to work bank shifts and expand knowledge and experience in other areas
- Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work
- Day One Flexible Employer
The Trust supports and actively encourages flexible working for all employees. We offer many options and you are encouraged to ask the recruiting manager what is possible for this role. If appointed, you will have the opportunity to apply for a flexible working request from the first day of your employment
Join our Staff bank
What is Staff Bank?
Our EPUT NHS staff bank is an entity managed by the trust that hires clinical and non-clinical healthcare professionals to take on shifts at our trust hospitals and community settings. Here at EPUT we maintain our own bank of specialist staff to ensure that we are able offer safe and effective care at all times.
All our permanent staff are automatically enrolled onto the staff bank however this does not mean you have to work any additional shifts, but the option is there for you if you wish.
If you are joining our Trust in a fixed term role, please indicate on your New Starter Paperwork that you wish to join our staff bank.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will work as a member of Essex STaRS in providing high quality, evidence-based, holistic care to service users in line with your professional code of conduct and Trust policies to:-
· Ensure families where substance misuse concerns are identified, have easy and swift access to appropriate drug and alcohol services which will support them to make more informed choices about their behaviour and their ability to keep children safe and how they parent and/or live as a family.
· To provide services that limit the length of time families need to have contact with Children’s Social Care Services and where possible work with other treatment providers to prevent such contact.
· To provide advice, support and information in relation to substance misuse, to professionals, including front line practitioners and senior managers. This will include all relevant and best practice Harm Reduction advice, information and service provision including signposting to appropriate substance misuse treatment and recovery services.
· To provide access to assessment, recovery planning and appropriate interventions to families with substance misuse issues and concerns; to provide access to pre and post detoxification support for those needing community or residential detoxification. The work will be provided to Substance Misusing Adults, and families accessing Children’s Social Care services that have been either identified as at risk or affected by substance misuse.
· To provide data required via scoresheets to ensure the service and be monitor. Input onto the Performance Monitor Report as required.
Criteria for Selection - Essential
- Professional Qualification in Social Work or Nursing
- Substance Misuse Experience
- Car Driver
Person specification
shortlisting
Essential criteria
- First level registered nurse or social worker with relevant experience
- Substance Misuse Experience
- Proven ability to work on own initiative and accept personal accountability.
Desirable criteria
- Post registration diploma/degree level education in Substance misuse
- Able to deliver from a range of possible key therapeutic interventions CBT, Psychosocial interventions, Family Interventions, DBT approaches.
shortlisting
Essential criteria
- Car Driver
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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
- Tracey Crawford
- Job title
- Clinical Lead, Dual Diagnosis and Criminal Justice
- Email address
- [email protected]
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