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Outreach Recovery Worker [harm reduction]
Description✓Outreach Recovery Worker [Harm Reduction] – Full Time, Fixed Term – Chatham, Kent –£24,000 per annum
✓Benefits:
✓Training opportunities and career development
✓Flexible working
✓Season Ticket Loan Scheme
✓Cycle to work scheme
✓25 days [rising to 30 with length of service] Annual Leave plus Bank Holidays
✓Contributory Pension Scheme – Employer matched contributions of up to 6% in the first two years’ service and up to 9% thereafter
✓Death in Service Payment [2x annual salary]
✓Critical Illness Insurance [subject to qualifying criteria]
✓The Role – Outreach Recovery Worker:
✓Working within an integrated healthcare framework to provide support to drug and alcohol users aged 18 and over [dependent on service]
✓Services are designed to deliver Psychosocial Drug and Alcohol Interventions for Service users that are identified as having an Alcohol or drug problem.
✓Responsibilities:
✓Services will deliver client centred treatment using both harm reduction and abstinence-based treatment approaches depending on the requirements of the individual client.
✓You will be required to manage a caseload, provide appropriate harm reduction advice and guidance, assess, care plan; deliver structured 1:1 and group-work sessions including structured treatment programmes.
✓Through care and integration with other services such as Housing, Employment, Healthcare services, Probation and CRCs are an essential element of the work.
✓You will be responsible for contributing to the targets set by Forward and the local commissioners.
✓One of the key targets will be measuring outcomes, so co-operative working relationships with other partner agencies is vital to this role.
✓Flexibility will be required in this role, this may include some evening/weekend shift and with reasonable notice to travel to other projects in your cluster to deliver services, enabling continuity of care for the client group.
✓You will have/be:
✓Knowledge of OST and harm reduction
✓Experience of working within the substance misuse services.
✓Experience of carrying out comprehensive assessments, risk management plans and the design and implementation of SMART care plans.
✓Experience of delivering structured interventions to service users.
✓Experience of facilitating groups.
✓Using motivational interviewing techniques in both 1:1 and group settings.
✓Strong IT skills.
✓Please note that all roles which come into contact with services users will require successful candidates to be fully vaccinated against Coronavirus with effect from 1st April 2022 [unless a medical exemption certificate is obtained from your GP] and this will form part of contractual offers Show more →
✓Benefits:
✓Training opportunities and career development
✓Flexible working
✓Season Ticket Loan Scheme
✓Cycle to work scheme
✓25 days [rising to 30 with length of service] Annual Leave plus Bank Holidays
✓Contributory Pension Scheme – Employer matched contributions of up to 6% in the first two years’ service and up to 9% thereafter
✓Death in Service Payment [2x annual salary]
✓Critical Illness Insurance [subject to qualifying criteria]
✓The Role – Outreach Recovery Worker:
✓Working within an integrated healthcare framework to provide support to drug and alcohol users aged 18 and over [dependent on service]
✓Services are designed to deliver Psychosocial Drug and Alcohol Interventions for Service users that are identified as having an Alcohol or drug problem.
✓Responsibilities:
✓Services will deliver client centred treatment using both harm reduction and abstinence-based treatment approaches depending on the requirements of the individual client.
✓You will be required to manage a caseload, provide appropriate harm reduction advice and guidance, assess, care plan; deliver structured 1:1 and group-work sessions including structured treatment programmes.
✓Through care and integration with other services such as Housing, Employment, Healthcare services, Probation and CRCs are an essential element of the work.
✓You will be responsible for contributing to the targets set by Forward and the local commissioners.
✓One of the key targets will be measuring outcomes, so co-operative working relationships with other partner agencies is vital to this role.
✓Flexibility will be required in this role, this may include some evening/weekend shift and with reasonable notice to travel to other projects in your cluster to deliver services, enabling continuity of care for the client group.
✓You will have/be:
✓Knowledge of OST and harm reduction
✓Experience of working within the substance misuse services.
✓Experience of carrying out comprehensive assessments, risk management plans and the design and implementation of SMART care plans.
✓Experience of delivering structured interventions to service users.
✓Experience of facilitating groups.
✓Using motivational interviewing techniques in both 1:1 and group settings.
✓Strong IT skills.
✓Please note that all roles which come into contact with services users will require successful candidates to be fully vaccinated against Coronavirus with effect from 1st April 2022 [unless a medical exemption certificate is obtained from your GP] and this will form part of contractual offers Show more →