Job Overview
To provide a dedicated comprehensive Recovery Focused Tier 2/3 service to people with drug and alcohol use problems their families and carers.
Main duties of the job
* To accept referrals, assess need and provide psychosocial interventions
* Provide harm reduction advice, information and support with an emphasis on safer drug use, safer sex, HIV, Hepatitis A,B and C and other blood borne infections
* Be responsible for maintaining a full case load of complex clients as the key worker.
* To make home visits consistent with need.
* To carry out comprehensive assessments, construct care packages with multi-disciplinary colleagues where required, review recovery plans in a structured format and manage onward referral.
* To assist and support medical and nurse prescribers during harm reduction and prescribing clinics.
* To provide a range of intervention including CBT based brief solution focused therapy and motivational enhancement techniques.
* Retain contact with service users whilst they are accommodated in residential rehabilitation units including visits when required.
* To create and facilitate group work interventions.
* Demonstrable commitment to service user involvement.
* To work with a range of professional in ensuring service users' needs in terms of safeguarding and mental health are met.
Working for our organisation
Inclusion, created in 2002 is part of the Specialist Services Care Group of Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT). We provide caring and effective services across England, including, West Yorkshire, West Midlands, East Midlands, West Mercia, Thames Valley, Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Thurrock, Essex.
We support individuals, families and communities who are affected by addiction, crime, mental health or need treatment for their sexual health. We believe that the individuals and families who use our services should receive high quality, committed and inclusive care, realising all the benefits a modern NHS organisation can provide.
We work with patients and our staff teams to achieve the best outcomes we can. We invest heavily in training and development, and the wellbeing of our people, both staff and service users is central to who we are. Here at MPFT, we are proud of the comprehensive wellbeing and lifestyle support offer available, in addition to in-house training and coaching support.
Our services are robustly governed, evidence-based, inclusive, and designed and provided in conjunction with service users. We are committed to providing the best service we can, and if you share our values, we want you on our team
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
Please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification for further details.
* This vacancy may close early if a sufficient number of applications are received.****
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
* NVQ 3 Health and Social Care or equivalent qualifications
Desirable criteria
* Relevant training/qualification in associated field ie, CBT, Motivational Interviewing, Brief solution focussed therapy, Mapping techniques, Auricular acupuncture trained, SMART Recovery
Experience
Essential criteria
* 12 months minimum experience of working with substance users
* A commitment to and understanding of harm reduction approaches to working with drug users.
Desirable criteria
* Experience of developing and Delivering group work.