Substance Misuse Recovery Worker-Homelessness | North London NHS Foundation Trust

The Substance Misuse Recovery Worker (Band 5) role is based within Enable’s Enfield service and focuses on delivering holistic, strength‑based support to people experiencing homelessness and multiple disadvantage who are affected by drug and alcohol use. The postholder manages a caseload of individuals with complex needs, providing assessment, care planning, harm reduction interventions, and coordinated recovery support across community and outreach settings.

The role involves close multidisciplinary working and partnership engagement with health, housing, criminal justice, and voluntary sector agencies to promote engagement, reduce risk, and improve outcomes. Practice is underpinned by trauma‑informed, non‑judgemental approaches, with a strong emphasis on safeguarding, harm reduction (including OST, needle exchange and Naloxone), and supporting service users towards improved health, stability, and independence

• To work as an effective member of the multidisciplinary team actively participating in team meetings, group supervision and clinical team meeting
• To manage a caseload of service users with complex needs, completing comprehensive assessments, risk management and treatment plans, as well as co-produced care plans with service users.
• To work with service users who are in Opioid Substitute treatment substitute and non opiate . This includes testing service users for illicit drug use, liaising with pharmacies regarding dispensing and supervised consumption, GP liaison and producing/issuing prescriptions under the supervision of a medical prescriber.
• To adhere to local safeguarding protocols to safeguard children and vulnerable adults. including the completion of safeguarding assessment tools, referrals to social services and producing reports
• To work effectively with partner agencies and other professional to ensure a joined up approach to treatment and care planning
• Able to work flexibly according to the needs of the service i:e faciliatataing late evening and contributing to Duty rota.

Why choose to join the North London NHS Foundation Trust?

We believe that by working together, our Trust can achieve more for the residents of North Central London and our patients than we can by working apart.

Our Five-Year Strategy:

1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.

2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all

3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.

4. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.

Why NLFT?

· Transforming and creating a positive environment for our service users, staff and visitors.
• We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
• We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
• NHS Discounts, generous annual leave allowance and NHS pension scheme
• We have excellent internal staff network support groups.

• To work as an effective member of the multidisciplinary team actively participating in team meetings, group supervision and clinical team meetings
• To manage a caseload of service users with complex needs, completing comprehensive assessments, risk management and treatment plans, as well as co-produced care plans with service users.
• To work with service users who are in Opioid Substitute treatment substitute. This includes testing service users for illicit drug use, liaising with pharmacies regarding dispensing and supervised consumption, GP liaison and producing/issuing prescriptions under the supervision of a medical prescriber.
• To adhere to local safeguarding protocols to safeguard children and vulnerable adults. including the completion of safeguarding assessment tools, referrals to social services and producing reports
• To work effectively with partner agencies and other professional to ensure a joined up approach to treatment and care planning

This is not an exhaustive list, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.

This advert closes on Sunday 5 Jul 2026