Recovery Worker

Please see the Job Description and Person Specification for further details, a summary is below: • Be responsible for maintaining a full caseload of complex clients and supporting them to move forward in their recovery. • To accept referrals, assess need and make appropriate recommendations as part as a robust duty system. • Provide harm reduction advice, information and support with an emphasis on safer drug and alcohol use, safer sex, HIV, Hepatitis A, B and C and other blood borne viruses (BBVs). • To carry out comprehensive assessments, construct care packages with multi-disciplinary colleagues where required, review care plans in a structured format and manage onward referral. • To provide a range of structured psychosocial interventions including CBT-based brief solution-focused therapy, motivational enhancement techniques, and create and facilitate group work interventions. • To make domiciliary visits consistent with need, particularly for service users with disabilities and to those with family responsibilities. • To provide a needle exchange service. Liaison Responsibilities: • To develop and sustain links with multi-disciplinary services including statutory and non-statutory providers of drug and alcohol services, criminal justice services and providers of wrap around services. • To develop a network of contacts with relevant agencies to promote service accessibility for the client group Job description Job responsibilities Please see the Job Description and Person Specification for further details, a summary is below: • Be responsible for maintaining a full caseload of complex clients and supporting them to move forward in their recovery. • To accept referrals, assess need and make appropriate recommendations as part as a robust duty system. • Provide harm reduction advice, information and support with an emphasis on safer drug and alcohol use, safer sex, HIV, Hepatitis A, B and C and other blood borne viruses (BBVs). • To carry out comprehensive assessments, construct care packages with multi-disciplinary colleagues where required, review care plans in a structured format and manage onward referral. • To provide a range of structured psychosocial interventions including CBT-based brief solution-focused therapy, motivational enhancement techniques, and create and facilitate group work interventions. • To make domiciliary visits consistent with need, particularly for service users with disabilities and to those with family responsibilities. • To provide a needle exchange service. Liaison Responsibilities: • To develop and sustain links with multi-disciplinary services including statutory and non-statutory providers of drug and alcohol services, criminal justice services and providers of wrap around services. • To develop a network of contacts with relevant agencies to promote service accessibility for the client group