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Drug and Alcohol Recovery Practitioner - Guildford, United Kingdom - Via Westminster Drug Project
Description
Job Summary
Come and join us as an Assertive Outreach Practitioner working across Surrey. Proactively supporting those who use our service to access and engage in structured treatment interventions and providing lifesaving harm reduction interventions.
Are you an experienced outreach worker looking for a new challenge and career development? This is an exciting opportunity to support the development of a new aspect of the i-access partnership service.
The Role
The Assertive Outreach role is a new role to the Surrey i-access service and will involve targeted delivery of interventions in community settings. Engaging with vulnerable individuals that are not currently accessing treatment but who may be living a chaotic life with complex drug and/or alcohol needs.
These roles will be focussed on engaging Opiate users and other drug and/or alcohol users with community-based treatment provision whilst supporting them to minimise risk of harm. Complexities and vulnerabilities for these individuals will include:
The role will require dynamic partnership working; liaising with a broad range of services to provide wrap-around risk management focussed care. Assertively and creatively trying to engage individuals who may be treatment resistant or re-engage those that have had unsuccessful episodes of treatment in the past.
If you were working with us, here are some things you would have done last week:
We are seeking committed, dynamic and highly motivated flexible candidates that thrive in busy community spaces, with an in-depth knowledge and experience of the challenges affecting people with substance misuse and related health and wellbeing issues.
The Service
i-access is an integrated service delivered in partnership by Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Trust (SABP) and Via is commissioned to provide substance misuse treatment for people aged 18 and onwards in Surrey.
This service is an established community Integrated service that is well performing and highly functioning, it consists of both clinical and psychosocial and is CQC registered to provide a range of clinical interventions including BBV & health interventions, OST, and community detox.
Location
You will work peripatetically across Surrey, with an administrative base to be agreed on at point of offer, preferences can be shared at interview stage.
This role will require access to a vehicle and full driver's licence.
To see the generous range of benefits we offer at Via 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
The closing date for applications is Sunday 26 May at midnight.
We only accept applications via using our application form, sorry we don't accept CVs. For guidance on how to complete the application visit . Please submit your application as soon as possible as we may close adverts at any time if we receive a sufficient number of applications.
Via 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.
We're a Disability Confident Employer and are committed to the employment and career development of disabled people. We offer an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for our jobs, please confirm in the personal statement part of our application form that you are applying under this scheme.
Appointment to all our posts are subject to satisfactory completion of our safeguarding checks including DBS and we follow safer recruiting principles.