Young Person Substance Misuse Caseworker - Newtown, United Kingdom - Adferiad Recovery

Adferiad Recovery

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Newtown, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Description

Adferiad Recovery delivers a new, flexible, and co-ordinated response to the exceptional circumstances faced by people with co-occurring mental health and substance misuse conditions and related issues.

We harness the talents and experience of our founding and long-established leading Welsh Charities CAIS, Hafal, and WCADA in their fields, enabling our projects to meet the needs of our most vulnerable with a single, unified, and comprehensive approach.

An opportunity has arisen for a passionate and self-motivated individual to join our team as a
Young Person Substance Misuse Caseworker based in
Newtown
Powys.

Hours:37.5 hours per week

Salary:
£23,365.24

Holidays: 25 days per year plus 8 public holidays (pro rata)

Based at:
Powys

Responsible to:
Powys CYP SMS Service Manager

Job Purpose:

This post will work as part of Adferiad Recovery's Young People's Substance Misuse Service in Powys, providing services to young people who are under 18 years of age (and those aged 16-24 transitioning to adult services), who are experiencing problems with drug and/or alcohol use.

You will provide targeted and specialist interventions to support young people at increased risk of using substances and for those identified with a substance misuse problem, with the objective of preventing family breakdown and helping to address and overcome barriers in accessing education, employment, and training.

The team aspire to create equality of access and availability of services for those with severe substance misuse and those with more recreational use; for those for whom abstinence is the goal, as well as those for whom harm reduction approaches are more suitable.

The young people's provision operates separately from the adult's service which are delivered by our partners at Kaleidoscope, allowing for a specialist provision, for the purposes of safeguarding and in offering specialist services.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

To work with young people with complex needs, of which substance misuse is assessed as a primary contributing factor.
To participate in the development, evaluation, and amendment of practice and protocols.
To refer and signpost individual young people toward other appropriate agencies
To deliver interventions at various locations in the community which may include the individual's home
To provide initial and ongoing assessment with young people
To provide a wide range of information on substances and their affects to individual users, to include relapse prevention, health, and sexual awareness
To have thorough knowledge of Child Protection
To work with the family as a whole
To support young people using motivational enhancement techniques
To offer targeted and crisis work through therapeutic interventions and support to young people, promoting health and social care improvements and sustainment of alcohol/drug free status where relevant whilst responding effectively to risk issues.
To deliver nonmedical/ abstinencebased interventions to service users not in clinical treatment
To offer ongoing support and harm reduction interventions with service users
To provide a range of evidence based psychosocial interventions as identified through initial assessment, care plan, and review including both one to one intervention and group work (i.e. anxiety/stress management, coping strategies, confidence and motivation building, interpersonal and social skills training).
To provide support to the Adult Substance Misuse Service when required, working supportively and collaboratively with Kaleidoscope colleagues.
Actively seek and participate in monthly management supervision with YPSMS Team Leader.
To contribute to the preparation of reports to Adferiad Recovery/ Kaleidoscope and its partnership projects.
To ensure service outcomes for the team are achieved within agreed standards and procedures as outlined in the delivery plan and contract with the commissioners.
To develop and maintain coworking practices within the multiagency delivery team
To maintain up to date records of work, weekly activity records, and other such pro forma as directed by Adferiad Recovery/ Kaleidoscope

General:

Organise and attend all relevant meetings, actively participating, and disseminating information to all stakeholders.
Liaise with community organisations, schools, and other service providers where required to better support young people and develop the service
To work flexibly to meet the needs of the community and the Youth Justice agenda. This will include working in the evenings and at weekends as necessary.
To undertake any duties and responsibilities as required commensurate with the post.

Professional:

To participate in the Adferiad Recovery continuous learning, development, and appraisal process
To maintain professional accreditation as appropriate to role
To attend training provided, organised, or arrange