Overview
Outreach Recovery Worker – Ashford – Ashford
Permanent
£24,000 Plus Benefits
We are currently recruiting for an Outreach Recovery Worker (Harm Reduction), based in Ashford
About the role
Working within an integrated healthcare framework to provide support to drug and alcohol users aged 18 and over (dependent on service). Services are designed to deliver Psychosocial Drug and Alcohol Interventions for Service users that are identified as having an Alcohol or drug problem.
Services will deliver client centred treatment using both harm reduction and abstinence-based treatment approaches depending on the requirements of the individual client. You will be required to manage a caseload, provide appropriate harm reduction advice and guidance, assess, care plan; deliver structured 1:1 and group-work sessions including structured treatment programmes. Through care and integration with other services such as Housing, Employment, Healthcare services, Probation and CRCs are an essential element of the work.
You will be responsible for contributing to the targets set by Forward and the local commissioners. One of the key targets will be measuring outcomes, so co-operative working relationships with other partner agencies is vital to this role.
Flexibility will be required in this role, this may include some evening/weekend shift and with reasonable notice to travel to other projects in your cluster to deliver services, enabling continuity of care for the client group.
Key responsibilities
- The purpose of this role is to provide intensive support to service users with multiple needs including co-occurring conditions.
- Focus primarily on the OST population who are at risk of disengaging from treatment, with some individuals from alcohol cohort.
- Offer extra support to prevent high risk clients dropping out of treatment.
- Work to re-engage those who drop out of treatment as soon as possible.
- Use an assertive outreach model that will be outward facing to ensure we are doing all that we can to keep them in treatment.
- Support high-risk clients to successfully access and engage with treatment.
- Coordinate and work alongside Health care to monitoring and manage client health and minimise risks of harm, including COVID-19.
- Develop and contribute to assessment and care planning of service users, supporting and coordinating their engagement with specialist agencies to address all their support needs.
- Support clients with their care plan including referral to support services in the community, advice and guidance on housing, benefits and training and employment.
- Actively promote an increase in Naloxone and needle exchange provision.
The ideal candidate will have
Skills and Experience
- Knowledge of OST and harm reduction.
- Experience of working within the substance misuse services.
- Experience of carrying out comprehensive assessments, risk management plans and the design and implementation of SMART care plans.
- Experience of delivering structured interventions to service users.
- Experience of facilitating groups.
- Using motivational interviewing techniques in both 1:1 and group settings.
- Strong IT skills.
- Understanding of continuity of care, holistic care needs and community services.
- Experience of promoting and supporting Equality and Diversity.
Knowledge
- Knowledge of the issues facing substance misusers.
- Knowledge of the Recovery Agenda.
- Knowledge of Safeguarding
Qualifications
- Level 3 Diploma in Health and Social Care
About Us
We are committed to our cause and the work we carry out as a charity. Equally the wellbeing and the employees who work for us are also important. Joining us an employee, we will offer you the following benefits –
- Flexible working
- Training and development opportunities
- Simply Health Cashback Scheme (optional)
- Season Ticket Loan Scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Crisis Loan Scheme
- Electric Car Scheme
- 3 x Wellbeing Days (pro rata’d for part time employees)
- Access to Blue Light Card
- 25 days (rising to 30 with length of service) Annual Leave plus Bank Holidays
- Contributory Pension Scheme – Employer matched contributions of up to 6% in the first two years’ service and up to 9% thereafter
- Death in Service Payment (2x annual salary)
- Critical Illness Insurance (subject to qualifying criteria)
When we recruit, we welcome applications from everyone. This is inclusive of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion and/or belief, marriage and civil partnerships, pregnancy and maternity and socio-economic background. Where operationally possible, we will consider flexible working requests and make reasonable adjustments for all roles.
To find out more about Forward’s commitment to being an inclusive employer and our current EDI strategy click here.
Employee Screening and Eligibility to Work
If successful in your application, you will be required to provide eligibility to work evidence in line with the ‘Eligibility to Work in the UK’ requirements.
