Drug and Alcohol Recovery Practitioner (Assertive Outreach)
| Posting date: | 23 April 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £27,720 to £31,542 per year |
| Additional salary information: | including London Weighting where appropriate |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 23 May 2024 |
| Location: | Redhill, Surrey |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Via |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | JOB00000483 |
Summary
Come and join us as an Assertive Outreach Practitioner working across Surrey. Proactively supporting those who use our service to access and engage in structured treatment interventions and providing lifesaving harm reduction interventions.
Are you an experienced outreach worker looking for a new challenge and career development? This is an exciting opportunity to support the development of a new aspect of the i-access partnership service.
The Role
The Assertive Outreach role is a new role to the Surrey i-access service and will involve targeted delivery of interventions in community settings. Engaging with vulnerable individuals that are not currently accessing treatment but who may be living a chaotic life with complex drug and/or alcohol needs.
These roles will be focussed on engaging Opiate users and other drug and/or alcohol users with community-based treatment provision whilst supporting them to minimise risk of harm. Complexities and vulnerabilities for these individuals will include:
• physical and mental health,
• high risk drug and/or alcohol use,
• homelessness and insecure housing,
• domestic violence and abuse, and isolation.
The role will require dynamic partnership working; liaising with a broad range of services to provide wrap-around risk management focussed care. Assertively and creatively trying to engage individuals who may be treatment resistant or re-engage those that have had unsuccessful episodes of treatment in the past.
If you were working with us, here are some things you would have done last week:
• Worked closely with partners from neighbourhood policing teams, probation, housing, community safety teams and a range of other health and social care agencies to engage and re-engage service users into drug and alcohol treatment.
• Provided outreach with a focus on engagement and harm reduction, including overdose prevention across Surrey, working with the wider i-access team to ensure seamless access to treatment interventions.
• Assisted service users to access treatment services and to make sustained changes to improve their lives.
We are seeking committed, dynamic and highly motivated flexible candidates that thrive in busy community spaces, with an in-depth knowledge and experience of the challenges affecting people with substance misuse and related health and wellbeing issues.
The Service
i-access is an integrated service delivered in partnership by Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Trust (SABP) and Via is commissioned to provide substance misuse treatment for people aged 18 and onwards in Surrey.
This service is an established community Integrated service that is well performing and highly functioning, it consists of both clinical and psychosocial and is CQC registered to provide a range of clinical interventions including BBV & health interventions, OST, and community detox.
Location
You will work peripatetically across Surrey, with an administrative base to be agreed on at point of offer, preferences can be shared at interview stage.
This role will require access to a vehicle and full driver's licence.
For an informal chat about the role, contact Titania May, Service Manager on 07759 131825.
The closing date for applications is Sunday 26 May at midnight.
Are you an experienced outreach worker looking for a new challenge and career development? This is an exciting opportunity to support the development of a new aspect of the i-access partnership service.
The Role
The Assertive Outreach role is a new role to the Surrey i-access service and will involve targeted delivery of interventions in community settings. Engaging with vulnerable individuals that are not currently accessing treatment but who may be living a chaotic life with complex drug and/or alcohol needs.
These roles will be focussed on engaging Opiate users and other drug and/or alcohol users with community-based treatment provision whilst supporting them to minimise risk of harm. Complexities and vulnerabilities for these individuals will include:
• physical and mental health,
• high risk drug and/or alcohol use,
• homelessness and insecure housing,
• domestic violence and abuse, and isolation.
The role will require dynamic partnership working; liaising with a broad range of services to provide wrap-around risk management focussed care. Assertively and creatively trying to engage individuals who may be treatment resistant or re-engage those that have had unsuccessful episodes of treatment in the past.
If you were working with us, here are some things you would have done last week:
• Worked closely with partners from neighbourhood policing teams, probation, housing, community safety teams and a range of other health and social care agencies to engage and re-engage service users into drug and alcohol treatment.
• Provided outreach with a focus on engagement and harm reduction, including overdose prevention across Surrey, working with the wider i-access team to ensure seamless access to treatment interventions.
• Assisted service users to access treatment services and to make sustained changes to improve their lives.
We are seeking committed, dynamic and highly motivated flexible candidates that thrive in busy community spaces, with an in-depth knowledge and experience of the challenges affecting people with substance misuse and related health and wellbeing issues.
The Service
i-access is an integrated service delivered in partnership by Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Trust (SABP) and Via is commissioned to provide substance misuse treatment for people aged 18 and onwards in Surrey.
This service is an established community Integrated service that is well performing and highly functioning, it consists of both clinical and psychosocial and is CQC registered to provide a range of clinical interventions including BBV & health interventions, OST, and community detox.
Location
You will work peripatetically across Surrey, with an administrative base to be agreed on at point of offer, preferences can be shared at interview stage.
This role will require access to a vehicle and full driver's licence.
For an informal chat about the role, contact Titania May, Service Manager on 07759 131825.
The closing date for applications is Sunday 26 May at midnight.
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