Substance Use Recovery Worker

Tezlom; City Of London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare service provider in London seeks an experienced case manager to provide high-quality support and treatment for service users with substance use issues. This role includes managing a diverse caseload, delivering psychosocial interventions, and working closely with clinical teams to ensure comprehensive care. Applicants should demonstrate strong organisational skills and knowledge in assessing client risk. Competitive salary and opportunities for professional growth are offered.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of substance use and effective caseload management.
• Skills in assessing risks presented by clients.
• Ability to engage and apply intervention strategies.

Responsibilities

• Manage a caseload including assessment and recovery planning.
• Deliver psychosocial treatment in groups and individually.
• Support access to clinical interventions and provide prescriptions.

Skills

Substance use knowledge

Caseload management

Assessing risk

Engagement strategies

Harm reduction awareness

Organisational skills

IT skills

Time management

Partnership working

Professional boundaries

Job description

Responsibilities

Providing high quality case management to a caseload of service users including assessment, recovery planning, risk assessments and case reviews ensuring completion within organisational policy timescales.

• Delivery of psychosocial treatment interventions in groups and on a 1:2:1 basis;
• Supporting service users to access clinical interventions where required including engaging in clinical reviews, ensuring these occur within organisational policy;
• Providing prescription to service users where these are not posted to pharmacies;
• Distributing and training service users in naloxone;
• Delivering harm reduction advice including distributing clean injecting equipment through needle syringe programmes;
• Completing urine testing and dry blood spot testing following appropriate infection control procedures;
• Ensuring access to Recovery Support interventions including onward referrals;
• High quality record keeping for service users in treatment;
• Completing all tasks and documentation to ensure achievement of key performance indicators relevant to your role;
• Writing reports as required (e.g. safeguarding reports)

Qualifications

• Substance use knowledge
• Experience and knowledge of effective caseload management
• Demonstrable skills and knowledge in assessing risk presented by clients to themselves and others
• Knowledge of engagement and intervention strategies
• Harm reduction, suicide and self-harm awareness
• Organised with IT skills
• Ability to manage own time, prioritise activities and maintain accountability for your work
• Experience of working in partnership with different agencies
• Maintain clear professional boundaries