Recovery Worker (for the One Recovery Bucks Service)

Job Title: Recovery Worker (for the One Recovery Bucks Service)

Salary: £25,350.59 – £26,063.09 p.a.

Location: This role can be based in either High Wycombe or Aylesbury

Job Role: This post is a full-time/permanent role (37.5 hours per week) and may include evening, weekend and bank holiday work (Part time will be considered)

The Candidate: We are only able to consider applicants with experience of working within the substance misuse field, with a good working knowledge of drugs and alcohol.

Job Summary:

• To work within the One Recovery Bucks (ORB) team to provide a dedicated comprehensive recovery focused service for people with drug and alcohol misuse across Bucks
• To provide structured psychosocial interventions, group work and harm minimisation support within a recovery framework
• To contribute to the delivery of Oasis business plans and ensuring that OASIS’ vision and values are embedded within the organisation

Responsibility for:

• Provision of drug and alcohol treatment to service users within the locality
• Holding a caseload of service users and being responsible for offering a range of interventions to that individual
• Supporting a service user through their treatment journey from beginning to end
• Embracing the concept of recovery and demonstrating this in your clinical work
• Ensuring that your work is evidence based, up to date and in accordance with current policy and legislation
• Keeping up to date and accurate records and documentation

Skills and Expertise:

• A good working knowledge and understanding of service users with drug and/or alcohol related problems
• Experience in managing a caseload of service users with complex needs
• Awareness of issues faced by others involved with people experiencing drug and alcohol related problems
• Proven verbal and written communication skills with the ability to tailor the message to the audience
• Able to deliver a range of services/treatments/interventions in a person centred, non-judgmental manner
• Able to demonstrate flexibility and creativity when developing support packages
• Collaborative team working skills
• Adaptable and able to work in a challenging and changeable environment
• Ability to deliver against agreed objectives and targets

Qualifications:

• Vocational qualification e.g. NVQ 3 in Health & Social Care or equivalent qualification
• Demonstrable education and/or training in substance misuse work

To ensure quality standards are maintained by:

• Monitoring own performance to ensure it meets expectations and agreed performance criteria
• Reporting variances to expected outcomes to the line manager
• Participating in and utilising management information and data collection systems as appropriate
• Participating in the continuous improvement of the service

To continuously review own performance and development needs to assist growth and development by:

• Participating in open two-way dialogue during supervision, case management and appraisal meetings agreeing own task and development objectives and reviewing these as appropriate
• Participating in training and other development opportunities as agreed within the supervision and appraisal process
• To provide mentoring support for new and/or inexperienced workers

To ensure a safe working environment for self, colleagues, and service users by:

• Ensuring good standard of housekeeping is maintained within own area
• Ensuring risk assessments are completed when appropriate
• Taking personal responsibility for own safety e.g. reporting concerns, ensuring appropriate vaccinations and eye tests etc. are obtained
• Complying with all H&S policies and procedures including serious untoward incidents and accident reporting

To ensure compliance with internal and external standards and codes of conduct by:

• Meeting all regulatory requirements
• Complying with The OASIS Partnership’s Code of Conduct, policies and procedures

This job description reflects the overall scope and responsibilities of the role. All jobs change or evolve over time in order to meet corporate or local needs and this job description will therefore be subject to periodic joint review and change if required.

Please note all candidates will need to go through the enhanced DBS process

We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer

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Please note; due to the nature of the role, no sponsorship or relocation packages will be available for this position and so candidates must be eligible to both live and work in the UK to be considered.