Substance misuse recovery worker

4564169
  • Job type

    Temporary
  • Location

    Hertfordshire
  • Working Pattern

    Part-time,
  • Specialism

    Social Housing
  • Industry

    Staffing & Employment
  • Pay

    £18.00 - £22.00 per hour
  • Closing date

    31 Oct 2024

Substance misuse, drug & alcohol job

Your new company
You will be joining an established organisation which places the service user at the heart of everything they do. This organisation is focused on supporting vulnerable people in the community. This organisation primarily supports service users whose lives have been held back by a range of social deprivation.

Your new role


Please note this job is only 30 hours per week, the days are negotiable and the client is flexible aslong as they are completed between the days of Monday to Friday.

  • To deliver excellent drug and alcohol services to service users with alcohol addiction with significant others, including family members, friends and carers, to facilitate positive outcomes.
  • Your focus will be on delivering and developing group/pod work programmes, such as Foundations of Recovery. You will work with other programme facilitators and professionals within your project to design and deliver groups/pods, using evidence-based practice, covering the most appropriate issues for your service users.
  • To manage a case load and coordinate and deliver assessment and evidence-based interventions (brief and structured), recovery planning and aftercare planning.
  • To work collaboratively with colleagues and key stakeholders across multidisciplinary teams, ensuring adherence to all the clients' clients' policies and safeguarding principles.
  • Deliver harm reduction advice, guidance and education, including delivery programme, brief and extended recovery interventions, blood-borne virus intervention, overdose prevention, including naloxone programmes.
What you'll need to succeed

  • Must have experience working with complex clients that have substance misuse addictions.
  • Must be available within a weeks notice
  • Must Have a Hays DBS or an Enhanced DBS on the Update Service - Please note that Hays will process a new Enhanced DBS should you require one.

What you'll get in return

  • Weekly competitive pay
  • To work for a leading charity
What you need to do now

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