Job summary

The role of a Co-occurring Mental Health, Alcohol & Drugs (COMHAD) Practitioner has been specifically designed to provide holistic and integrated care between The Community Mental Health and Wellbeing Hub and local drug and alcohol services. You can encourage, inspire, motivate people who access the service. Working alongside the team in the Wellbeing Hub and partners as part of the Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT), you provide recovery orientated, solution focused and person-centered care.

Main duties of the job

Provide flexible support based on individual need and preferences, enabling individuals to make informed decisions and choices (face to face, telephone, community venues)

Arrange 121 mental health and wellbeing appointments

Undertake mental health and wellbeing assessments using motivational interviewing and coaching techniques

Support individuals to develop wellbeing plans using the Dialog Plus tool

Conduct timely full assessments of individuals substance use and how this related to their mental health symptoms

Provide substance misuse interventions

Contribute to the provision of a range of therapeutic social, occupational and leisure activities relevant to the service user group, through a community setting programme

Encourage and support individual advocacy, user forums, carers groups and patient councils

Work collaboratively and sensitively with individuals with a range of mental health needs to develop skills to manage their own health, in accordance with their personal recovery plan

To effectively manage risk

To carry out administration work, which could include but is not limited to report writing, screening referrals, completing triages and risk assessments

To maintain and develop professional links with all external agencies, enabling effective signposting

About us

In response to NHS Long Term Plan priorities and building on established local partnerships and place-based system transformation, our vision in Bexley is to transform our model of mental health and wellbeing care and support. We aim to provide accessible, responsive, and inclusive mental health support across the local area. This system-wide transformation will redesign how community mental health services are delivered and experienced, placing communities and individuals at the heart of what we do and how we do it.

The Community Mental Health and Wellbeing Hub will sit alongside and compliment those provided by primary and secondary care ensuring that by working together anybody who needs a service sees the right person at the right time, through a single point of entry. Together, were making sure were walking alongside people who need support every step of the way, making sure they are ok, making sure theyre accessing relevant support and then thinking about their next steps. This delivers against the NHSs vision for mental health care and support through more local, community mental health services and how community services should offer whole-person, whole-population health approaches.