Job overview

CPFT was chosen by NHS England as one of the national exemplar pilot sites for the redesign and transformation of primary and community mental health care. We know that there is a significant overlap between addictions and severe mental illness and undiagnosed, unmanaged mental health illness within this group of people makes recovery harder to achieve and maintain.

Patients with a dual diagnosis often fail to get an initial diagnosis, or adequate treatment for their SMI, because they do not manage to attend appointments and, if they do manage to get a diagnosis, they do not easily follow treatment protocols.

The Dual Diagnosis Outreach Team operates as an outreach service and works flexibly with the service users and other agencies. Many of the people this team will be working with will be known to CGL Aspire but, there are also groups of adults in Peterborough who have problems with addiction and acknowledged but undiagnosed me...