Cavdas Mdt Counsellor - Cardiff, United Kingdom - Kaleidoscope Project

Kaleidoscope Project

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Cardiff, United Kingdom

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MDT - Counsellor

Reports to:
Homelessness and Assertive OutreachTeam Leader / CAVDAS Service Manager

Location: 32 Cowbridge Rd West, Cardiff CF5 5BS

Outreach, and home visits / co-location with other social care partners will be expected.

Hours:
Full time, 37.5 hours per week

Salary:
£30,000 - £32,000 per annum

Background to Service:

Cardiff and Vale Drug and Alcohol Service (CAVDAS) is an Alliance of Barod, Recovery Cymru and Kaleidoscope Project with strategic partners G4S and Pobl.

CAVDAS Alliance has been commissioned by the Cardiff and Vale Substance Misuse Area Planning board.

CAVDAS services will deliver specialist support and interventions across Youth JusticeServices, Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) Cardiff Council Housing Services, Counselling, Recovery and Aftercare, Volunteering and Service User Involvement, Rapid Access Prescribing (RAPS), structured interventions, peer support and mutual aid, Harm Reduction and Work Force Development.

CAVDAS will deliver an integrated young person's, adults and family and carer information, advice, interventions, and support service.

CAVDAS will work across Cardiff and Vale Health and Social Care partners, and forums to co-produce services delivering outcomes in the way that people want.

We are looking to build a new culture providing one system for Cardiff and Vale and a unified, innovative, and flexible delivery model.

Purpose of the role:

This role will provide an assertive outreach response to service users who require complex unmet need proactive engagement tools to facilitate access to services and reduce barriers to engaging in treatment.

The role will work closely with housing support, homelessness services and Statutory providers of specialist clinical substance use support, and social care.

The focus of the role will be to provide structured psychosocial interventions via innovative and flexible engagement techniques to support harm reduction, case management and health promotion initiatives across Cardiff and Vale health and social care partners.

Engagement will be provided in a person centred and recovery-oriented delivery system.

Working as part of an assertive street-based outreach model, the role should aim to improve motivation to engage in services and reduce dependence on crisis support and emergency services.

S/he will have excellent communication skills, be able to work as part of a multidisciplinary team, across agency cultures including those within statutory, private and voluntary sector partnerships.

The post holder must be flexible and efficient, to ensure services are delivered equitably and with the service user at the heart of delivery.

S/he will have a non-judgmental approach to people who have recognised that their use has become problematic and be able to provide a welcoming and accessible service to existing and potential service users.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

To engage with a range of individuals with substance use issues who have adopted a
To participate in a pattern of shift work to enable maximum potential contact with individuals.

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To participate in multiagency initiatives including Case Review meetings and shared working to reduce the level of homelessness and its associated impact
To provide an assertive outreach service, supplying interventions and information regarding substance use and associated lifestyle behaviours that reduces the risk of overdose, reduces substance related deaths, reduces the spread of blood borne viruses, promotes healthy living, and minimises the potential risks and impact of substance related crime and disorder on the wider community.
Work with and manage a case load of individuals who have been identified via the MDT.
Develop and maintain strong links with key stakeholders in local services. Liaise with individuals, statutory and voluntary organisations as appropriate and support service users to engage in additional health and social care needs.
To proactively work to increase motivation to access treatment and facilitate referral and entry into appropriate treatment.
Engage with Peer2Peer delivery and community rehabilitation programmes to support and sustain resilience and longterm recovery goals.
Work to reduce antisocial behaviour and substancerelated offending by liaising and working closely with the criminal justice partners to encourage service users to access treatment and build a positive recovery network
To work within agree policies, procedures, and protocols to safeguard children, vulnerable adults and those experiencing domestic abuse.
To attend and report to safeguarding reviews, meetings, and conferences such as Multi
Agency Risk Assessment Conferences (MARACs).
Undertake risk assessment and develop and review risk managements plans that seek to mitigate identified risk