Active Treatment Worker - Haverfordwest, United Kingdom - Kaleidoscope Project

Kaleidoscope Project

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Haverfordwest, United Kingdom

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Description

DDAS Active Treatment Worker

WE DO NOT ACCEPT APPLICATIONS VIA INDEED, PLEASE APPLY VIA OUR WEBSITE ONLY:

Reports To:
Team Leader

Location:
DDAS Pembrokeshire, Haverfordwest, with a willingness to travel to Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion, on occasion.

Salary:
£25,000 per annum

Hours:
Full time, 37.5 hours per week. Normal working hours between 08:30 and 5pm with some evening and weekend work as required.

FIXED TERM UNTIL MARCH 2025

THE SERVICE:

The aim of Dyfed Drug and Alcohol Service (DDAS) is to engage drug and/or alcohol users and/or their concerned others in Dyfed's substance misuse treatment system and support them when accessing it.

DDAS staff will support individuals to address substance related issues, access appropriate interventions, reduce physical dependence and related health problems, reduce drug and alcohol related offending and improve physical, psychological, family and social functioning.

DDAS works with substance users and their families, friends and carers in both community and criminal justice settings, delivering specific services for those involved in the criminal justice system.

DDAS supports service users and their loved ones to sustain the gains they make in treatment by providing aftercare and peer support to help build social capital and prevent relapse.

DDAS is a consortium comprising three organisations, Barod, Kaleidoscope Project and G4S. DDAS is delivered throughout the geographical regions of Ceredigion, Carmarthenshire, and Pembrokeshire.

DDAS is aimed at adult drug and/or alcohol users aged 18 years of age and over, and their families, friends and carers.

DDAS services are provided in a non-judgmental, non-discriminatory, and professional manner and in a way that demonstrates courtesy and respect for individuals using substances, and sensitivity to their unique personal situations and experiences.

ROLE PROFILE AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

In this role you will be responsible for the following:

Engage service users in Dyfed's substance misuse treatment system
Deliver evidencebased and manualised brief interventions and semistructured interventions both in groupwork settings and on a onetoone basis to substance users and concerned others
Conduct high level assessments including risk assessment
Deliver harm reduction initiatives including Needle and Syringe Programmes, Naloxone training, and Dried Blood Spot Testing Services
Engage service users and concerned others via open access provision
Refer to the Single Point of Contact and staff it on a rota basis
Support referral to external Tier 3 and 4 substance misuse service providers
Support the Resilient Families Manager with the services safeguarding elements; to include interventions, campaigns and activities
Deliver Parent And Carer Training (PACT) programme
Devise, with service users and concerned others, individually tailored timelimited support and care plans
, based on a clear assessment of need that assists individuals in building social capital
Liaise closely with DDAS Aftercare, Criminal Justice and Young Person's teams

- and Interventions Workers, external Tier 3 providers including CDAT, IFSS

Actively influence and support service users and concerned others in coproduction and service user involvement in shaping service provision
Encourage active participation in mutual aid groups including SMART recovery, 12step fellowship groups (NA/AA) and peerled recovery hubs and service user groups
Promote healthier lives, wellbeing and active citizenship
Research, develop and implement online recovery resources
Promote and encourage service user and concerned other participation in local, regional and national recovery events
Research and produce information for publications, leaflets and web pages
Mediate on a service users' behalf, for example, by writing letters, making phone calls or attending meetings and providing supported referrals to related agencies
Enter data onto the DDAS case management system, Palbase, and use the system effectively to inform work with service users and concerned others
Enter data onto all other required databases such as Neo
Provide training and promotional presentations to internal staff or external organisations as required
Support volunteers in the delivery of DDAS
Take up DDAS' arrangements for support and supervision and participate in all relevant internal meetings
Cooperate with requests from DDAS management and administration
Work with line manager to meet Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and other targets set by funders or targets set internally.
Undertake other reasonable duties as requested, but which may not be specified within the job description

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

The post holder is expected to promote and support the concerned other PACT group and peer support group, and also support the wider training and campaigns of DDAS.

This support includes partici