Senior Harm Reduction Practitioner - Harrow, United Kingdom - Via Community Ltd

Via Community Ltd

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Harrow, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Job Reference

JOB

Location
Harrow

Salary
Up to £34,052.00 per annum inclusive of London Weighting where appropriate

Vacancy Type
Fixed Term/Full Time

Working Hours
37.5 hours per week. Fixed Term Contract to 31 March 2025

Application Deadline
Sunday, June 9, 2024

Job Summary

Would you like to work in an established Via service making a difference in the community and help service users to achieve sustained recovery?

The Role

The Senior Harm Reduction Practitioner will work from the service site and, at times, across the local community, undertaking a wide range of promotion and development of partnerships to make our service more accessible.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a thriving service and help build an ever larger network of partnerships to highlight harm reduction and health promotion across the borough.

We will be looking for the successful applicant to co-ordinate across those partnerships focussing on key areas such as reducing alcohol related harm, safer injecting practices and smoking cessation; they will have good knowledge of these areas.

The successful applicant will line manage a team delivering a variety of health orientated interventions, encouraging development and learning both within the team and also our community partners.

The Service

Via Harrow is a fully integrated substance misuse service, providing clinical and psychosocial interventions from a main treatment hub in Harrow and from a range of satellite services in the borough.

The team actively promotes recovery and work with individuals that are directly and indirectly affected by substance misuse, working with the local community to improve the health, wellbeing and functioning of Harrow residents, irrespective of circumstance.

This service is an established Community Integrated service that is well performing and highly functioning, it is CQC registered to provide a range of clinical interventions including BBV & health interventions, OST, and community detox alongside a comprehensive psychosocial and recovery focussed model

Location
Harrow Recovery Centre is based at 97 Pinner Road, HA1 4ET, close to Harrow-on-the-Hill tube station.

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

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.