Support Worker – Substance Misuse
LOCATIONS:
Camden
SALARY:
£15.56 Basic
DURATION:
Temp to Perm
HOURS:
40 hours per week (
Monday – Friday | 9am to 5pm)
NOTE: WE ARE UNABLE TO PROVIDE SPONSORSHIP OR SUPPORT THOSE ON A SKILLED WORKER VISA.
Daily Duties
- Hold a caseload of 20 key clients who have been referred following treatment and clients who have self-referred and conduct regular key work sessions resulting in agreed SMART support plans.
- Arrange and carry out assessment interviews and triage for new referrals into the service.
- Facilitate group activities within the service in response to identified client need or as part of a project wide programme of group work.
- Deal with referrals and provide short interventions to move client through the pathway.
- Provide advice and guidance on Benefits, Housing, Offending and Health and wellbeing.
- Support clients to access education, training, and employment opportunities, including accredited qualification, college courses and recreational courses
- Support service users to adopt health promotion strategies that promote healthy lifestyles.
- Work effectively with stakeholders and other agencies to support client's needs
- Promote the development of social skills and peer mentoring relationships to improve self-esteem, recovery and independence.
- Support team members to develop understanding and awareness of substance misuse.
- Participate in information advice and guidance client 'drop-in' sessions across a range of settings.
- Provide signposting for clients needing to access community services such as mental health and well-being services.
- Assess, update, and refer service users for vaccination and immunisation programmes.
- Provide information, advice and guidance on Treatment options, Residential Rehab and Prescribing.
- Support the wider team to deliver interventions for individuals, including harm reduction & trauma informed approaches to engagement/re-engagement with services
Essential requirements
- DBS on the update service
- Experience of working with complex needs clients (e.g. mental health and substance misuse)
- Experience of working with clients who are in recovery or clients who are actively using drugs and/or offending
- Experience of managing a caseload of clients and creating Support Plans
- A good understanding of safeguarding issues and the ability to undertake comprehensive risk assessments related to this
- Experience of working within substance misuse treatment
- Knowledge of harm reduction and health promotion interventions
- The ability to assess and recovery plan service users and formulate written reports
- An understanding of the Recovery Model, and the ability to engage and motivate people to move towards independence and inclusion
- The ability to work in partnership with external stakeholders, particularly community mental health services and/or substance use services
For more information on this role please contact
Emily Rex
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