Dual Diagnosis Practitioner – Forensic Offender Services

A Vacancy at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.

We are seeking an experienced, dynamic and compassionate clinician to lead dual diagnosis (co‑existing mental health and substance misuse) strategy and practice across the Forensic Directorate.

You will operationalise and continuously improve the Forensic Substance Misuse Strategy, setting standards, supporting staff capability and embedding evidence‑based care across all forensic sites.

This role offers a unique opportunity to influence practice at scale, shaping safe, recovery‑focused care pathways for people with complex forensic and substance misuse needs.

• Provide expert clinical leadership for complex dual‑diagnosis cases, including MDT formulation, assessment and evidence‑based care planning.
• Ensure universal screening and comprehensive substance‑use assessment across forensic inpatient and community settings.
• Lead safe prescribing and withdrawal management pathways in partnership with Pharmacy.
• Deliver specialist training, supervision and capability development for dual diagnosis leads/champions.
• Lead policies, SOPs and staff training relating to substance‑related safety, searches and harm‑reduction.
• Drive quality, governance and improvement through audits, QI projects, incident analysis and thematic learning.
• Strengthen partnership working with community substance misuse providers, MAPPA, police, probation and wider agencies.
• Lead data quality, KPI monitoring and reporting using EPJS and BI dashboards.
• Promote an inclusive, compassionate and psychologically safe team culture; line‑manage or supervise dual diagnosis leads.

We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance. There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. We want you to feel like you are part of a close knit team at SLaM. It’s important to us that you valued and appreciated and that are why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer

Some of our benefits are highlighted here

• Generous pay, pensions and leave, we offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package which is dependent on the role and length of service.
• Work life balance, flexible working and support a range of flexible options, such as: part-time working and job sharing.
• Career development, There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes
• Car lease, our staff benefits from competitive deals to lease cars
• Accommodation, our staff benefits from keyworker housing available which is available on selected sites
• NHS discounts, with discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands though Health Service Discounts website.

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

This advert closes on Thursday 4 Jun 2026