Location: South East London
Rate: £22-£23 P/H Ltd Umbrella (£20.33 PAYE Inclusive)
About the role:
- Ensure a MDT approach to caseload management to encourage lead agencies who are involved to actively supporting service users.
- Utilise home visits and community venues for one to one and group work sessions.
- To provide rapid and flexible interventions where required to meet the needs of the service users
- Supporting service users from point of entry into the service and through their treatment/recovery journey
- Providing screening, assessment, and recovery planning and onward referral
- Reducing drug and alcohol related harm to service users and the wider community
- Promoting carer, service user and community involvement
- Providing advocacy for access to partnership services
- Working with service users to support social (re)integration, enabling them to lead meaningful and purposeful lives: promoting recovery, resilience, peer support and self-determination
- Have a strong understanding of substance misuse issues and experience of working within a similar field
- Experience of working with service users with a range of needs,
such as mental health, physical heath and criminal justice. - Be an excellent communicator, both verbal and written with good IT skills
- Proactive and able to work on own initiative with excellent time management and prioritising skills
- Have a good working knowledge of mental 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
- Ability to manage change successfully in a way that prioritises the needs of service users
- 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
