Recovery Worker

Job summary
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 If it is identified that you require sponsorship to undertake this role your application may be withdrawn.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 passionate about making a positive difference and empowering people to achieve a better quality of life?

We have an exciting opportunity for a compassionate and motivated individual to join Inclusion Recovery Hampshire, a drug and alcohol treatment and support service.

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.

We welcome applications from individuals with an interest in, and experience of, working within the drug and alcohol field.

The ability to travel across the New Forest area is essential for this role.

When completing your application, please clearly demonstrate how you meet the essential and desirable criteria listed below. Shortlisting will be based on this information.

Main duties of the job
Full time Recovery Worker (working 37.5 hours per week) across multiple sites for Inclusion Recovery Hampshire's New Forest 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.

About us
Inclusion, created in 2002 is part of the Specialist Services Care Group of Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT). We provide caring and effective services across England, including, West Yorkshire, West Midlands, East Midlands, West Mercia, Thames Valley, Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Thurrock, Essex.We support individuals, families and communities who are affected by addiction, crime, mental health or need treatment for their sexual health. We believe that the individuals and families who use our services should receive high quality, committed and inclusive care, realising all the benefits a modern NHS organisation can provide.We work with patients and our staff teams to achieve the best outcomes we can. We invest heavily in training and development, and the wellbeing of our people, both staff and service users is central to who we are. Here at MPFT, we are proud of the comprehensive wellbeing and lifestyle support offer available, in addition to in-house training and coaching support. Our services are robustly governed, evidence-based, inclusive, and designed and provided in conjunction with service users. We are committed to providing the best service we can, and if you share our values, we want you on our team!

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 as 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. Retain contact with service users whilst they are accommodated in residential rehabilitation units, including visits when required. To provide a needle exchange service.

Liaison 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
Qualifications
Essential

• Solid understanding of safeguarding and risk management
• Accredited Drug and Alcohol Practitioner, or a willingness to work towards accreditation during employment with Inclusion

Desirable

• Foundation Degree / HNC in related field which may include counselling, social work, nursing, psychology, social studies OR equivalent experience

Experience
Essential

• Experience of working in the drug and alcohol field

Skills
Essential

• Strong communication skills, including motivational and trauma-informed approaches
• A commitment to, and understanding of, harm reduction & recovery approaches when working with people who use Drug and Alcohol
• Ability to manage a caseload and maintain accurate records

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.