Recovery Practitioner - Woking, United Kingdom - WDP

WDP

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Woking, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Location
Woking, Surrey

Salary
£24,440 - £28,262 plus £780 London Weighting Allowance

Vacancy Type
Permanent/Full Time

Working Hours
37.5 hours per week

Application Deadline
Sunday, May 14, 2023

Job Summary

Come and join us as a Drug and Alcohol Safeguarding Worker to make a difference improving the lives of children and families

The Service

The Family Safeguarding Surrey (FSS) service sees specialist adult focussed practitioners, with expertise in domestic abuse, mental health, or substance misuse - integrated within children's safeguarding teams - with the aim of providing comprehensive support.

The FSS is a multi-disciplinary model within Children's Services which aims to improve the quality of work undertaken with families and thereby improving outcomes for children and parents.

i-access is an integrated service delivered in partnership by Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Trust (SABP) and WDP. It is commissioned to provide substance misuse treatment for people aged 18 and onwards within Surrey.

The substance misuse element of the FSS is a part of the Surrey i-access service, with specialist Family Safeguarding Recovery Practitioners collocated with children and family teams.

The Role
We are recruiting to a specialist Family Safeguarding Recovery Practitioner for this team.

Being key members of the FSS team, you will provide brief advice and education to those with an identified substance misuse need, work to engage and re-engage them in structured treatment and work in partnership with the FSS multidisciplinary team.

You will be expected to deliver one to one and group work interventions to parents.

Using Motivational Interviewing (MI) as a framework for practice in line with the FSS workbook alongside other appropriate evidence-based interventions.

You will be instrumental in supporting and engaging parents to access the wider i-access treatment pathway in line with their needs.

Location
The FSS serves parents in Surrey within 4 quadrants in line with Children and Families teams.

Guildford
Redhill
Walton
Woking

Although this role is required to work peripatetically across the county FSS Recovery practitioners are aligned to specific quadrant/s, we are currently recruiting to our North West Quadrant.

To see the generous range of benefits we offer at WDP including 30 days annual leave for all new starters, our health and wellbeing initiatives, financial perks and development opportunities - visit our Benefits Package

For an informal chat about the role, contact

Titania May,

Service Manager on

Sunday 14 May 2023 at midnight.
WDP welcomes enquiries from everyone and we value diversity in our workplace.

Our commitment to promoting diversity and developing a workplace environment where all staff are treated with dignity and respect is central to our recruitment process.