Recovery Worker

This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship. If it is identified that you require sponsorship to undertake this role your application may be withdrawn

Are you committed to making a positive change and empowering service users to achieve a better quality of life?

We have an exciting opportunity for a passionate and caring individual to join our teams within Inclusion Recovery Hampshire, a drug and alcohol treatment and support service for individuals impacted by their own or someone else's use of alcohol or drugs.

In this role, you will manage your own caseload and deliver high-quality, person-centred care throughout each service user's treatment and recovery journey. This will include completing assessments, care planning, delivering a range of interventions, and supporting individuals to achieve their recovery goals from referral through to discharge.

You will work as part of a dedicated, multi-disciplinary team, alongside prescribers and other professionals, to provide health support including blood-borne virus (BBV) testing clinics. You will embrace a recovery-focused approach and ensure all records and documentation are accurate, timely, and up to date.

Main duties of the job

Recovery Worker (working 36 hours per week) at Inclusion Recovery Hampshire's Eastleigh Service. Everyone should feel comfortable getting the support they need for issues relating to drugs and alcohol and as a Recovery Worker, you will have a duty of care to those in need, providing high quality, inclusive and non-judgemental support. You will be motivated to support service users to develop the social networks and skills that they require to develop positive coping mechanisms, to guide them towards reintegrating successfully into the wider community.

Job responsibilities

Please see the Job Description and Person Specification for further details, a summary is below:

• Be responsible for maintaining a full caseload of complex clients and supporting them to move forward in their recovery.
• To accept referrals, assess need and make appropriate recommendations as part of a robust duty system.
• Provide harm reduction advice, information and support with an emphasis on safer drug and alcohol use, safer sex, HIV, Hepatitis A, B and C and other blood borne viruses (BBVs).
• To carry out comprehensive assessments, construct care packages with multi-disciplinary colleagues where required, review care plans in a structured format and manage onward referral.
• To provide a range of structured psychosocial interventions including CBT-based brief solution-focused therapy, motivational enhancement techniques, and create and facilitate group work interventions.
• To make domiciliary visits consistent with need, particularly for service users with disabilities and to those with family responsibilities.
• To develop and sustain links with multi-disciplinary services including statutory and non-statutory providers of drug and alcohol services, criminal justice services and providers of wrap around services.
• To develop a network of contacts with relevant agencies to promote service accessibility for the client group.

Person Specification Experience

• Experience in drug and alcohol or related field

Skills

• A commitment to, and understanding of, harm reduction & recovery approaches when working with people who use Drug and Alcohol

Qualifications

• Accredited Drug and Alcohol Practitioner, or a willingness to work towards accreditation during employment with Inclusion
• Foundation Degree / HNC in related field which may include counselling, social work, nursing, psychology, human resources, social studies

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.