Recovery Worker

Job summary

Are you committed to making a positive change and empowering service users to achieve a better quality of life?

We have an exciting opportunity for a passionate and caring individual to join our teams within Inclusion Recovery Hampshire, a drug and alcohol treatment and support service for individuals impacted by their own or someone else's use of alcohol or drugs.

In this role, you will utilise all of your expertise in providing a remarkable service and care to your own caseload of service users. This includes being responsible for offering a range of interventions, care planning, assessments and supporting service users through their treatment journey and recovery ambitions - from beginning to end.

Working as part of our dedicated and multi-disciplinary team and alongside our prescribers, you will offer health support via testing clinics for blood borne viruses (BBVs), embracing the concept of recovery and keeping up-to-date and accurate records and documentation.

The vacancy is open to qualified professionals, or members of the public with some understanding of substance misuse and is based within the Fareham hub for Inclusion Recovery Hampshire.

You will be an integral part of a team, making a real difference to people's lives and the wider communities in which we serve.

Main duties of the job

Full time Recovery Worker (working 37.5 hours per week) on a 12 month Fixed Term Contract at Inclusion Recovery Hampshire's Fareham 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

• 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.

Person Specification

Experience

• Experience of working in the drug and alcohol field

Skills

• Excellent communication skills
• Understanding of the complex needs facing people who use drugs or alcohol

Desirable

• Experience and skills in delivering evidence-based interventions to service users

Qualifications

• Relevant training / Qualification/Experience in associated field o CBT o Motivational Interviewing o Brief solution focused therapy o Mapping techniques (ITEP/BTEI)
• Foundation Degree/HNC in related field which may include counselling, social work, nursing, psychology, social studies

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.

Employer Details

Employer name: Inclusion

Address: Inclusion Fareham, Avalon Centre, Fareham Health Centre, Fareham, PO16 7ER

Employer's website: https://www.mpft.nhs.uk