Are you passionate about making a positive difference and empowering people to achieve a better quality of life?
We have an exciting opportunity for a compassionate and motivated individual to join Inclusion Recovery Hampshire, a drug and alcohol treatment and support service.
In this role, you will manage your own caseload and deliver high-quality, person-centred care throughout each service user’s treatment and recovery journey. This will include completing assessments, care planning, delivering a range of interventions, and supporting individuals to achieve their recovery goals from referral through to discharge.
You will work as part of a dedicated, multi-disciplinary team, alongside prescribers and other professionals, to provide health support including blood-borne virus (BBV) testing clinics. You will embrace a recovery-focused approach and ensure all records and documentation are accurate, timely, and up to date.
The ability to travel across the New Forest area is essential for this role.
Main duties of the job
Part-time Recovery Worker (working 30 hours per week) across multiple sites for Inclusion Recovery Hampshire’s New Forest service.
Everyone should feel comfortable getting the support they need for issues relating to drugs and alcohol and as a Recovery Worker, you will have a duty of care to those in need, providing high quality, inclusive and non-judgemental support.
You will be motivated to support service users to develop the social networks and skills that they require to develop positive coping mechanisms, to guide them towards reintegrating successfully into the wider community.
Job responsibilities
This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship. If it is identified that you require sponsorship to undertake this role your application may be withdrawn
Be responsible for maintaining a full caseload of complex clients and supporting them to move forward in their recovery. To accept referrals, assess need and make appropriate recommendations as part of a robust duty system. Provide harm reduction advice, information and support with an emphasis on safer drug and alcohol use, safer sex, HIV, Hepatitis A, B and C and other blood borne viruses (BBVs). To carry out comprehensive assessments, construct care packages with multi-disciplinary colleagues where required, review care plans in a structured format and manage onward referral. To provide a range of structured psychosocial interventions including CBT-based brief solution-focused therapy, motivational enhancement techniques, and create and facilitate group work interventions. To make domiciliary visits consistent with need, particularly for service users with disabilities and to those with family responsibilities. Retain contact with service users whilst they are accommodated in residential rehabilitation units, including visits when required. To provide a needle exchange service.
Liaison Responsibilities: To develop and sustain links with multi-disciplinary services including statutory and non-statutory providers of drug and alcohol services, criminal justice services and providers of wrap around services. To develop a network of contacts with relevant agencies to promote service accessibility for the client group.
Person Specification
Experience
- Experience of working in the drug and alcohol field
Skills
- A commitment to, and understanding of, harm reduction & recovery approaches when working with people who use Drug and Alcohol
Qualifications
- Accredited Drug and Alcohol Practitioner, or a willingness to work towards accreditation during employment with Inclusion
- Relevant training / Qualification in associated field o CBT o Motivational Interviewing o Brief solution focussed therapy o Mapping techniques (ITEP/BTEI)
- Foundation Degree / HNC in related field which may include counselling, social work, nursing, psychology, human resources, social studies
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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