Dual Diagnosis Liaison Service

Advice & Consultancy - Specialist advice and consultancy is available to all practitioners within mental health and substance misuse services to support their work with service users who have a dual diagnosis. This can be delivered on trust premises or in community venues. It can be provided to practitioners alone or alternatively to practitioners with their client present (interactive 3-way advice session).

3 key functions:

• Provide advice and consultancy to staff within mental health and substance misuse services to support their work with service users with a dual diagnosis.
• Deliver core skills and advanced skills training to staff within mental health and substance misuse services to ensure practitioners are competent in the skills required to work with service users with a dual diagnosis
• Promote effective multi-agency work between mental health services and substance misuse services

Self referral or via other agency