Cavdas Substance Use Worker - Cardiff, United Kingdom - Kaleidoscope Project

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Closing Date:
Monday 15th May, 2023


Reports to:
Team Leader / Alliance Manager


Salary / Grade:
£23,500 - £25,500 per annum


Location:
St Andrew's Place, Cardiff

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


Hours:
Full time, 37.5 hours per week


Contract Type:
Permanent


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 Justice Services, 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.


Purpose of the role:

The role will provide a harm reduction, case management and specialist intervention function across the CAVDAS services model.

The role will contribute to structured community rehab timetabled approaches while supporting flexible and responsive peer led and innovative responses to substance use throughout the region.


The post holder should enjoy face-to-face contact with people who have recognised that their use of substances has become problematic.

They 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 within small locality teams, to ensure services are delivered equitably and with the service user at the heart of delivery.


They 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

  • Work in a flexible and responsive manner across locations, dependent on need, to help provide a smooth and continuous service.
  • Engage substance users through provision of initial assessment, brief interventions, and structured interventions to respond to an individual's personalised treatment goals and reduce harm.
  • Provide comprehensive assessment and care coordination to ensure service users receive integrated careplanned treatment appropriate to their level of need and readiness to change.
This will include the use of, but is not limited to:


  • Creative care planning that target life domains: drug and alcohol use, relationships, family, housing, employment, leisure / social / recreation, criminal behaviour and health.
  • Screening tools such as Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA).
  • Culturally sensitive assessment tools such as AXIS All Area Toolkit.
  • Specialised Assessments such as the WIISMAT (Welsh Integrated Indepth Substance Misuse Assessment Tool).
  • Recognition and assessment of diagnostic criteria and psychosocial functioning (DSM V, ICD10, Alcohol Dependence Syndrome).
  • Delivery of therapeutic and/or psychosocial interventions including motivational interviewing, International Treatment Effectiveness Programme (ITEP), Community Reinforcement Approach (CRA), Social Behaviour Network Therapy(SBNT), Structured Relapse Prevention.
  • Outcome and Session Rating Scales and Treatment Outcome Profiles.
  • To provide service users with a wide range of activities and access to social/recreational enhancement
  • Support individuals to prepare for detox, provide advice and information and assist service users into structured aftercare
  • To provide accurate advice and information regarding substance use and associated lifestyle behaviours that reduces the risk of overdose, reduces the spread of blood borne viruses, promotes healthy living, and minimises the potential risks and impact of drug related crime and disorder on the wider community.
  • To work in partnership with other agencies to provide a package of support around holistic needs, by attending joint allocation meetings and case review meetings, sharing appropriate information, and ensuring that action plans are carried through.
  • Deliver detox and aftercare services for drug and alcohol service users through detox preparation support, liaison and supporting Medically Assisted Recovery programmes, Community Rehab and CAVDAS Aftercare. Attending medical assessments and reviews with CAVDAS medical teams and wider health and social care partners, linking with Tier4 services, and liaison with GPs.
  • Provide adhoc support for complex cases such as crisis support and ASIST (Applied Suicide Intervention Support Training) interventions.
  • Provide group work programmes and sessions.
  • Liaise and signpost with ex
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