COMHAD Specialist Practitioner | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

This role of COMHAD Specialist Practitioner post is within the Greenwich Mental Health Hub.

The role is focused on delivering expert substance misuse and mental health interventions. The post holder will provide specialist consultation, carry out assessments, and deliver both individual and group-based short-term interventions. Working both independently and alongside substance partners and other mental health services, they will ensure clients affected by substance use receive appropriate support and care. Practitioners in this role must actively participate in multi-disciplinary work, help build the skills and knowledge of colleagues throughout the Hub, and promote COMHAD interventions with flexibility and creativity.

To engage in specialist substance misuse and mental healthassessment within the Greenwich Mental Health Hub, identifying levelsof need, establishing care and treatment pathways and where requiredfacilitating timely referral and access to community substance partnersand secondary level mental health services.

Engage service users in personalised 1:1 psycho-social interventionsto promote recovery and develop enhanced self-management skills,promoting both abstinence and harm reduction pathways.

To co-facilitate and support the delivery of substance focused recoverygroups, working creatively to sustain engagement and regularlyreviewing programmes to incorporate best practice.

To work in conjunction with a range of both Hub and broader partneragencies, to deliver robust joined up care for service users whoexperience co-occurring difficulties.

To be an accessible resource across the Hub and associated services,providing specialist substance knowledge, training, and activelypromoting concepts of integrated access and support for clients whomay be misusing substances and experiencing mental healthchallenges.

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care
• To engage in specialist substance misuse and mental health assessment within the Greenwich Mental Health Hub, identifying levels of need, establishing care and treatment pathways and where required facilitating timely referral and access to community substance partners and secondary level mental health services.
• To engage service users in personalised 1:1 psycho-social interventions to promote recovery and develop enhanced self-management skills, promoting both abstinence and harm reduction pathways.
• To co-facilitate and support the delivery of substance focused recovery groups, working creatively to sustain engagement and regularly reviewing programmes to incorporate best practice.
• To work in conjunction with a range of both Hub and broader partner agencies, to deliver robust joined up care for service users who experience co-occurring difficulties.
• To be an accessible resource across the Hub and associated services, providing specialist substance knowledge, training, and actively promoting concepts of integrated access and support for clients who may be misusing substances and experiencing mental health challenges.
• To encourage and promote service user’s broader engagement with physical health and well-being themes, signposting and referring to other health professionals as appropriate, utilising exiting pathways and creating and developing new pathways where required.
• To develop partner services understanding of the impact of social and cultural diversity on patients and their carers’ experiences of mental illness and substance use, and the services that provide care and treatment.

This advert closes on Tuesday 12 May 2026

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