Sessional Healthcare Assistant

Change Grow Live; Dudley; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Part time

Job summary

A charitable organization supporting individuals in Dudley is seeking a Health Care Assistant. This role involves delivering screenings, coordinating treatments, and promoting health improvements among service users. Ideal candidates should have a strong understanding of drug and alcohol issues and relevant experience in harm reduction. The position is offered on a temporary basis with a salary of £14.11 per hour.

Qualifications

• Ability to coordinate and support Hep C treatment clinic.
• Commit to multi-agency working for better outcomes.
• Seek out learning opportunities to improve skills.

Responsibilities

• Ensure BBV screening and vaccinations are delivered.
• Develop and run needle exchange.
• Promote harm reduction for individuals and community.

Skills

Excellent understanding of drug and alcohol issues

Experience delivering harm reduction advice

Experience in Needle Exchange

Experience delivering Naloxone training

Strong interpersonal skills

Education

Current Certificated Injection Technique and Immunisation Training

Job description

Overview

Change Grow Live are a charity dedicated to the belief that we can make a difference to our Service Users lives offering support and respect in a safe environment treating each user as an individual and working with them to find the right treatment and care options.

Our core values are Be open be compassionate and be bold and our team members apply these daily to achieve our mission of helping people change the direction of their lives grow as individuals and live life to its full potential.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Health Care Assistant at our Dudley Service who has the skills and experience to support and engage with our service users ensuring that they access the right intervention at the right time in a way that best meets their needs.

Location

Dudley

Salary

14.11 p / h

Contract

Sessional

Responsibilities

• Ensure BBV screening and vaccinations are comprehensively delivered
• Coordinate and support the Hep C treatment clinic
• Responsibility for the development and running of the needle exchange.
• To reduce drug related harm to the individual and wider community
• To promote harm reduction and enable service users to improve their own health and wellbeing
• Develop skills and knowledge to conduct clinical interventions.
• To promote and support individuals into both abstinence based and medically assisted forms of recovery

About you

• Excellent understanding of drug and alcohol issues and experience of working within a related field.
• Experience of delivering harm reduction advice and interventions including Needle Exchange.
• Experience of delivering Naloxone training.
• Current Certificated Injection Technique and Immunisation Training OR willing to undertake training
• A commitment to multi-agency working and establishing partnerships with other professions to achieve good outcomes for the service user group e.g. health services GPs hepatitis clinic etc.
• Good working knowledge of physical health interventions services and good practice.
• Be a supportive team player with strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work in partnership with a wide range of professionals agencies and internal / external stakeholders
• Understand the importance of information governance processes and commit to follow and apply all necessary safeguards
• Seek out learning opportunities to improve and broaden your professional knowledge and skills and to contribute and oversee the learning and development of others

Please reflect the attached Job Description and Person Specifications in your application.

Direct applications only we will not be engaging agencies for this vacancy.

Visa information

This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Applicants must already have the right to work in the UK at the time of application. For applicants with time-limited visas unfortunately we are unable to support new visa applications or extensions.

We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if we receive a high number of applications so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

If this sounds like you and you would like to begin your journey with Change Grow Live then we would love to talk to you.

Salary details

14.11 / Hr.

ILW / OLW / Fringe

N / A - Outside London Weighting Area

Closing Date

31 / 10 / 2025

If you have any questions on this opportunity that you would like to talk through please contact us using the below details :

Contact

Danielle Lyon

This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at an enhanced level.

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Employment Type

Temp

Experience

years

Vacancy

1