Addictions Recovery Practitioner (Rough Sleeper's)
| Posting date: | 01 April 2026 |
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| Salary: | £36,943.00 to £44,900.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £36943.00 - £44900.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 08 April 2026 |
| Location: | Uxbridge, UB8 1JP |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9333-26-0433 |
Summary
To provide specialist drug and alcohol outreach clinics for local hostels, homeless individuals and organise health services in the local authority catchment To work as a member of the multidisciplinary team in the management and treatment provision of a range of specialist services to service users experiencing difficulties with drugs and alcohol. Interventions include harm minimisation approaches, motivational interviewing, relapse prevention, ITEP care planning, individual interventions, general health assessment, wound assessment and management, injecting site assessment, lifestyle assessment and physical health assessment including urine drug screening. The role includes using skills in mental health assessment, referral to appropriate mental health services and psychosocial group work To promote health and wellbeing and improve health inequalities by completing a range of health checks and to be able to assess service users general health and provide early intervention treatment, sign posting and referral to other organised health services To develop and maintain pathways into specialist services to ensure the health and well-being of residents is met, including primary care services. To sign post service users to the appropriate health care settings to meet their needs. To manage a caseload of service users accessing rough sleepers support. To ensure safety is maintained and risks are escalated appropriately. To ensure that gold standard holistic care is provided to individuals accessing addictions support.