Substance Use Recovery Worker

Tezlom; Slough; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare service provider in Slough is seeking a skilled professional to manage a caseload of service users. The role involves delivering psychosocial treatment interventions and supporting clients in accessing necessary clinical services. The ideal candidate will have substantial knowledge in substance use and effective caseload management. This position offers the opportunity to engage in meaningful work while contributing to the recovery of individuals in need.

Responsibilities

• Provide high quality case management to a caseload of service users.
• Deliver psychosocial treatment interventions in groups and on a 1:2:1 basis.
• Support service users in accessing clinical interventions.

Skills

Substance use knowledge

Effective caseload management

Risk assessment

Engagement and intervention strategies

Harm reduction awareness

Organizational 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