Dual Diagnosis Mental Health Nurse | East London NHS Foundation Trust

The post holder will provide specialist interventions and manage a caseload of individual service users within a multidisciplinary and multi-agency framework.
This includes
Proactive engagement, assessment, care planning, risk mitigation, crisis planning and management and promoting advocacy and multi-agency working
Individual bespoke pieces of work when a patient does not 'fit' established pathways
Individual bespoke pieces of work to support junior staff in case management

Providing mental health nurse expertise into the team and into other services
Providing proactive care navigation across ELFT services and into other organisations modelling multidisciplinary and multi-agency working
Delivering substance misuse and mental health treatment, social care interventions and facilitating access to physical health services
Providing proactive engagement, assessment, care and risk planning, crisis planning and emergency interventions

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

Providing bespoke interventions: short proactive interventions, one-off assessment and recommendations, and one-off and ongoing case review support in other teams and organisations, work to support junior colleagues in case management by re-setting the care plan
The post holder will manage a caseload of up to 45 service users - mixture of short, longer and off-off pieces of work

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