Gambling Recovery & Complex Needs Practitioner

Waythrough View All Jobs; Stoke-on-Trent; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 38,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

27 days’ annual leave

Pension scheme 4.5% employer contrib.

Life assurance 3× annual salary

Birthday leave

Cycle to Work

Job summary

Waythrough is seeking a Complex Needs Practitioner (Gambling) to manage a caseload, deliver holistic support and coordinate with multi-agency partners across England. You will work to reduce risk and support recovery, addressing gambling-related harm and related needs in a person-centred way.

The role offers flexible/community-based work with opportunities to collaborate with health, social care and housing services to improve outcomes for service users.

Qualifications

• Experience supporting people with complex needs within gambling, addictions, health and social care, mental health, housing or a related setting.

Responsibilities

• Manage a diverse caseload of individuals experiencing gambling-related harm and complex needs.
• Build positive, trusting and professional relationships with service users and, where appropriate, their families.
• Complete comprehensive assessments, care plans, reviews and aftercare support.
• Deliver appropriate psychosocial and person-centred interventions to address gambling-related needs.
• Develop personalised, strengths-based support and recovery plans focused on meaningful outcomes.
• Identify, assess and manage risk, including safeguarding concerns.
• Provide harm-reduction interventions and promote resilience, independence and wellbeing.
• Explore and address the wider impact of gambling, including financial, family, employment, housing, physical and emotional health issues.
• Support individuals to access appropriate healthcare, social care, housing, employment, education and community services.
• Advocate for service users and help remove barriers to accessing appropriate support.
• Work closely with voluntary and statutory agencies, health professionals and other partner organisations.

Job description

Waythrough is seeking a Complex Needs Practitioner (Gambling) to manage a caseload, deliver holistic support and coordinate with multi-agency partners across England. You will work to reduce risk and support recovery, addressing gambling-related harm and related needs in a person-centred way.

The role offers flexible/community-based work with opportunities to collaborate with health, social care and housing services to improve outcomes for service users.