Recovery Worker - Bradford, United Kingdom - The Bridge Project

The Bridge Project

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Bradford, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Empowering people experiencing multiple barriers to achieve positive change.

Job Description:

Title:

Addiction to Medication Recovery Worker

Location:

New Vision Bradford, Bradford/ Airedale - all service site locations including GP Practices.

Responsible to:

Team Leader

Salary Scale:

Starting £26,690 to £29,122 SCP 15 to 20

Hours of Work: 26hrs per week negotiable between the hours of 9.15am-5.15pm (including 30min unpaid lunch break)

ROLE PURPOSE

The programme is designed to support General Practices in their review of patients who are prescribed benzodiazepines and opiates that fall outside of recommended guidelines.

The programme, provided on site in General Practice, will support referred patients who subsequently agree to a programme of reduction/ cessation that is managed by their GP, while they address their psychosocial needs and promote self-care strategies.

Practices wishing to engage with the programme, agree to follow the programme design, this has been developed and reviewed over 9 years and is recognised as a model of best practice nationally.

New Vision Bradford offers a range of support for people experiencing issues with substances from across Bradford, Keighley, Bingley, Ilkley, Shipley and everywhere in the district.

This role will work as an integral part of the multi-disciplinary team delivering high quality substance misuse treatment provision by supporting service users from point of entry into the service and throughout their treatment/recovery journey.

The post holder will provide;

Screening, assessment, and recovery planning and onward referral;
Reducing drug and alcohol related harm to service users and the wider community;
Promoting carer, service user and community involvement;
Providing advocacy for access to partnership services;
Working with service users to support social (re)integration, enabling them to lead meaningful and purposeful lives, promoting recovery, resilience, peer support and self

- determination.

Key

Responsibilities:

Act as main care coordinator overseeing assigned groups of service users, providing: screening; asset mapping; comprehensive assessments; recovery planning using recognised theoretical techniques such as motivational interviewing and CBT and reviews of care.
Coordinate a tailormade package of care including:
Recognised psycho-social interventions;
1 to1 key work, small and larger group work;
Coordinate access to clinical interventions where required;
Harm minimisation and brief interventions
Assertively coordinating and connecting the service user to communitybased provision to meet their recovery needs
Carry out comprehensive service user assessments, including asset mapping of community resources and develop individual recovery plans that clearly identify how achieving each goal will enable progression in addressing substance use and re/integrating into the community.
Support the development of servicebased recovery communities.
Develop links with local recovery groups / mutual aid groups.
Ensure the timely and accurate collection, recording and reporting of specified data.
Assess suitability for groups in terms of risk and service user needs.
Carry out risk assessments and risk management.
Triage assessment and onward referral to a range of treatment/community support agencies

Work with prescribing clinicians to support substitute prescribing regimes to improve social functioning where required.
To be creative and innovative so that the post best meets the needs of the service user, promoting access into treatment, and continued engagement with underrepresented communities.
Ensure that all aspects of confidentiality are adhered to and that consent to share information is a key element to building trusting therapeutic alliances.
Help individuals to develop recovery resources and access peer and mutual support groups to develop their own recovery capital.
Work and liaise with other agencies involved with the service user's broader care plan

including health services, hospitals, and GPs.

Provide health education especially regarding harm minimisation, blood borne viruses and overdose prevention.
To carry out key harm reduction strategies such as running of the Needle Exchange and distribution of Naloxone, after completion of appropriate training or demonstration of relevant experience.

Person Specification

Essential

Desirable

Qualifications
A relevant professional qualification (eg NVQ3 in Health and Social Care, Social Work Degree, RMN, etc)

or

2 years full time or equivalent in part time experience of working with people with alcohol and / or drug problems and/ or people with complex and multiple needs within the last 4 years.

Access to a vehicle.

Experience
Relevant demonstrable experience of case management and delivering care-coordination in substance misuse or directly related field.

Experience of w