Job Title: Substance Misuse Outreach Support Worker (Aylesbury)
Salary: £24,168 p.a.
Location: Aylesbury
Job Role: This is a full-time role (37.5 hours per week). Flexible working hours may include evening, weekend and bank holiday work.
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 Purpose:
- To work with multi-agencies to offer a targeted support option to substance users, or people at risk of using substances due to homelessness, temporary housing or unsuitable housing. Facilitating assessments and interventions for people who are attending court or have recently been released from prison to encourage engagement in services.
- To work collaboratively with partners such as police, courts, probation, community support, health, well-being, education, employment, training, volunteering, housing and social support enabling a full integrated service to be offered.
- To be the point of contact for Thames Valley Police and will complete custody visits where needed to complete initial assessment and engagement.
- To attend Court regularly and assess suitability of DRR/ATR requirement with the support from Prison Link Worker. To engage difficult to reach clients including tackling homelessness by working in partnership with street wardens and other agencies for joint outreach working.
- To provide a wide range of interventions with service users in recovery and substance users not yet accessing treatment, engaging them in community and open access services, initial assessment and recovery planning.
- To provide and support the delivery of harm reduction and recovery focused outcomes, promoting and creating opportunities for service users to change.
- To promote mutual aid and service user involvement, facilitating access by maintaining referral pathways.
- To promote One Recovery Bucks to a wide range of partners, key-stakeholders and the general public.
Responsible for:
Work as an integral part of the One Recovery Bucks service in delivering high quality and time bound interventions to Service Users throughout North Buckinghamshire.
Engage people into open access services, which include take up of the needle and syringe exchange programme, harm reduction, structured and semi-structured interventions. Covering at least one open access service per week to link from community into services.
- Work with a range of organisations and members of the community to harness local community assets, bridging between the community and One Recovery Bucks, supporting long-term sustainable change for service users. And those not in service eg cannabis users – delivering harm reduction and signposting to other services.
- Support the updating of an online Community Support Services Manual.
- Engaging and supporting people new into treatment.
- Supporting a service user through their treatment from assessment and throughout their recovery journey.
- Holding a caseload of non-complex service users
- Promoting Service User, Carer and Community Involvement
- Promoting visible recovery and community integration
- Reducing drug and alcohol related harm to service users and the wider community
- Ensuring that your work is evidence based, up to date and in accordance with current policy, legislation and best practice. Demonstrating an understanding of service users physical and mental health needs and be able to support and refer as appropriate.
- Keeping up to date and accurate records and documentation with our online database (Illy Carepath)
- Working closely with Peer Mentors and Volunteers
Service User Work:
- Engage service users into treatment and support throughout their Recovery Journey in partnership with other agencies and staff.
- Provide harm reduction advice, information and support with an emphasis on safer drug or alcohol use, safer sex, awareness of blood borne infections.
- Provide a needle syringe exchange service and distribution of Naloxone and Naloxone Training.
- Complete screening, assessments and recovery/care plans.
- Manage a caseload of non-complex service users.
- Identify and effectively manage risk with service users
- Work within Safeguarding Children and Safeguarding Adults processes.
- Deliver a range individual and group interventions.
- To assist and support prescribing regimes as appropriate.
- To make home visits as appropriate.
- Demonstrable commitment to service user involvement
- Support and supervise Volunteers and Peer Mentors.
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.
Candidates with the experience or relevant job titles of: Recovery Worker, Social Care Worker, Recovery Support Worker, Drug Misuse Support Worker, Alcohol Misuse Support Worker, Social Care Support will also be considered for this role.
