Providing high quality case management to a caseload of service users including assessment, recovery planning, risk assessments and case reviews ensuring completion within organisational policy timescales;
• Delivery of psychosocial treatment interventions in groups and on a 1:2:1 basis;
• Supporting service users to access clinical interventions where required including engaging in clinical reviews, ensuring these occur within organisational policy;
• Providing prescription to service users where these are not posted to pharmacies;
• Distributing and training service users in naloxone;
• Delivering harm reduction advice including distributing clean injecting equipment through needle syringe programmes;
• Completing urine testing and dry blood spot testing following appropriate infection control procedures;
• Ensuring access to Recovery Support interventions including onward referrals;
• High quality record keeping for service users in treatment;
• Completing all tasks and documentation to ensure achievement of key performance indicators relevant to your role; GREEN
• Writing reports as required (e.g. safeguarding reports)
Essential :
• Substance use knowledge;
• Experience and knowledge of effective caseload management; Skills\Knowledge
• Demonstrable skills and knowledge in assessing risk presented by clients to themselves and others;
• Knowledge of engagement and intervention strategies;
• Harm reduction, suicide and self-harm aware;
• Organised with IT skills;
• Ability to manage own time, prioritise activities and maintain accountability for your work;
• Experience of working in partnership with different agencies;
• Maintain clear professional boundaries