Senior Harm Minimisation Practitioner
| Posting date: | 14 May 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £34,052 to £34,052 per year |
| Additional salary information: | per annum inclusive of London Weighting where appropriate |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 09 June 2024 |
| Location: | Harrow, London |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Via |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | JOB00000534 |
Summary
Would you like to work in an established Via service making a difference in the community and help service users to achieve sustained recovery?
Are you a committed, organised and highly motivated candidate, with a good understanding of the challenges affecting people with substance misuse and related health and wellbeing issues?
The Role
The Senior Harm Reduction Practitioner will work from the service site and, at times, across the local community, undertaking a wide range of promotion and development of partnerships to make our service more accessible.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a thriving service and help build an ever larger network of partnerships to highlight harm reduction and health promotion across the borough. We will be looking for the successful applicant to co-ordinate across those partnerships focussing on key areas such as reducing alcohol related harm, safer injecting practices and smoking cessation; they will have good knowledge of these areas.
The successful applicant will line manage a team delivering a variety of health orientated interventions, encouraging development and learning both within the team and also our community partners.
The Service
Via Harrow is a fully integrated substance misuse service, providing clinical and psychosocial interventions from a main treatment hub in Harrow and from a range of satellite services in the borough. The team actively promotes recovery and work with individuals that are directly and indirectly affected by substance misuse, working with the local community to improve the health, wellbeing and functioning of Harrow residents, irrespective of circumstance.
This service is an established Community Integrated service that is well performing and highly functioning, it is CQC registered to provide a range of clinical interventions including BBV & health interventions, OST, and community detox alongside a comprehensive psychosocial and recovery focussed model
Location
Harrow Recovery Centre is based at 97 Pinner Road, HA1 4ET, close to Harrow-on-the-Hill tube station.
To see the generous range of benefits we offer at Via including 30 days annual leave for all new starters, our health and wellbeing initiatives, financial perks and development opportunities – visit our Benefits Package
Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Via we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
For an informal chat about the role please contact Allen Quine on 07973 459001 or allen.quine@viaorg.uk
The closing date for applications is Sunday 09 June at midnight.
Are you a committed, organised and highly motivated candidate, with a good understanding of the challenges affecting people with substance misuse and related health and wellbeing issues?
The Role
The Senior Harm Reduction Practitioner will work from the service site and, at times, across the local community, undertaking a wide range of promotion and development of partnerships to make our service more accessible.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a thriving service and help build an ever larger network of partnerships to highlight harm reduction and health promotion across the borough. We will be looking for the successful applicant to co-ordinate across those partnerships focussing on key areas such as reducing alcohol related harm, safer injecting practices and smoking cessation; they will have good knowledge of these areas.
The successful applicant will line manage a team delivering a variety of health orientated interventions, encouraging development and learning both within the team and also our community partners.
The Service
Via Harrow is a fully integrated substance misuse service, providing clinical and psychosocial interventions from a main treatment hub in Harrow and from a range of satellite services in the borough. The team actively promotes recovery and work with individuals that are directly and indirectly affected by substance misuse, working with the local community to improve the health, wellbeing and functioning of Harrow residents, irrespective of circumstance.
This service is an established Community Integrated service that is well performing and highly functioning, it is CQC registered to provide a range of clinical interventions including BBV & health interventions, OST, and community detox alongside a comprehensive psychosocial and recovery focussed model
Location
Harrow Recovery Centre is based at 97 Pinner Road, HA1 4ET, close to Harrow-on-the-Hill tube station.
To see the generous range of benefits we offer at Via including 30 days annual leave for all new starters, our health and wellbeing initiatives, financial perks and development opportunities – visit our Benefits Package
Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Via we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
For an informal chat about the role please contact Allen Quine on 07973 459001 or allen.quine@viaorg.uk
The closing date for applications is Sunday 09 June at midnight.
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