Dual Diagnosis Worker

Job overview

The Dual Diagnosis and Outreach Team ( DDOT) was created with Community Mental Health Transformation funding in to improve access to mental health services for clients with serious mental illness and multiple, complex needs who struggle to gain access to mental health services via more formal routes.

The DDOT is a small team with a Team Lead, a senior nurse and support workers. The team are an outreach arm of the Primary Care Mental Health Service (PCMHS) which works closely with GPs to ensure that people can access appropriate mental health care. 

The DDOT are based in the Peterborough Town Hall but most of their work is out and about in Peterborough, joining the Rough Sleeper Outreach team for their shifts on the streets, mingling with staff and clients in the Garden House, the local drop-in centre for rough sleepers, or at the headquarters for Aspire which provides support for those clients with addictions to drugs and alcohol...