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Alcohol Caseworker – Social Care
| Posting date: | 26 November 2024 |
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| Salary: | £13.92 to £13.92 per hour |
| Additional salary information: | per hour PAYE |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 22 December 2024 |
| Location: | MIDDLESBROUGH, TS1 2DA |
| Company: | Triumph Consultants Ltd |
| Job type: | Temporary |
| Job reference: | Middlesbrough MID1051648 |
Summary
What's involved with this role:
Temporary Alcohol Caseworker – Social Care
Job Ref: Middlesbrough MID1051648
Pay Rate: £13.92 per hour PAYE
Hours per week: 37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
Role Length: This opening assignment is for 4-5 months
City: MIDDLESBROUGH
Enhanced DBS disclosure required for this role
The caseworker post aims to provide comprehensive care to clients with substance use issues, supporting clients from initial entry into service throughout their treatment and recovery journey, helping to minimise harm and facilitating behaviour change. Working with vulnerable clients who may have complex needs relating to domestic abuse, homelessness, re-offending behaviour and poor physical/mental health, the Caseworker post will conduct screenings and assessments, develop and implement recovery plans, facilitate onward referrals to other relevant services and conduct care reviews to help clients achieve their goals.
The Caseworker post will work flexibly to minimise harm relating to substance use, fostering social reintegration, and promoting recovery and resilience. Using a trauma-informed strength-based approach, the Caseworker post will enable clients to access the help they need and achieve their goals by offering a range of evidence-based interventions, as well as working collaboratively as part of a multi-disciplinary team and alongside other services to ensure access to support is as easy and seamless as possible.
Key Responsibilities:
Providing comprehensive care to clients with substance use issues, supporting them from their initial entry into service throughout their treatment and recovery journey.
Completing screenings and assessments, delivering evidence-based interventions, planning for recovery, and completing care reviews.
Identifying appropriate interventions, services, placements, and packages of support.
Presenting funding requests and/or updates concerning client outcomes to an appropriate panel and monitoring/reviewing agreed plans/placements.
Effectively managing a caseload of clients. Regularly reviewing cases, implementing actions, reviewing risk and following all safeguarding processes and procedures.
Developing effective working relationships and communication with key voluntary and statutory services to embed a more solution-focused response to people with multiple needs.
Carrying out risk assessments and risk management.
Performing proactive outreach including home visits, appointments in the community and outreach for street active/entrenched groups to enhance engagement and promote social inclusion.
Identifying and addressing barriers/obstacles to treatment and developing innovative solutions to enhance accessibility.
Planning service delivery contact flexibly to meet individual needs and adopting a proactive approach to engagement to maximise service accessibility. This includes delivering interventions peripatetically in a wide range of settings and communicating via a range of methods.
Qualifications:
Maths and English GCSE or equivalent
Educated to degree level or equivalent.
Knowledge:
Knowledge of the legislative, guidance and policy framework for homelessness, substance misuse and domestic abuse and good understanding of issues faced by those experiencing homelessness, substance misuse and domestic abuse
Knowledge or experience of delivering creative and effective evidence based interventions to improve service user outcomes
A strong working knowledge of local services and ability to work collaboratively with partners with the ability to galvanise a team around a service user to achieve effective outcomes
Experience:
Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role, or context and ideally within a public sector organisation.
Proven experience of working with a range of vulnerable and complex service users in a range of settings
Experience working in crisis intervention, need and risk assessment, advocacy and support for vulnerable service users
Experience of using / inputting on to information and caseload management systems
Skills & Abilities:
Effective time management and organisational skills and the ability to manage competing work demands.
Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite, Mosaic).
Ability to demonstrate good interpersonal and communication skills
Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.
***Qualification details and any other experience/skills relevant to the role to help support your application (and help us to help you!) – please give full details within your CV document.
Unless the DBS requirement stated above is for a Basic Disclosure, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service.
Clients are generally looking for candidates who are local to, or who can commute easily to the place of work. It will help your application if your CV states, in broad terms, where you reside – there is no need for a full address.
Please feel free to apply to us directly via jobs@tclrec.com by quoting the job reference and exact job title.
To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would ask that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, not as a PDF.
If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension, you will be working at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than umbrella pay terms. We do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.
Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, unfortunately we cannot respond to all applications. If you have not heard from us within 3 working days please assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles.
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Job Ref: Middlesbrough MID1051648
Anticipated Length of Assignment: Unless otherwise stated (we do carry the occasional permanent vacancy) all of our roles are technically temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent.
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