Job summary
- Main area
- Addictions
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 363-SSLB6372685
- Employer
- East London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- 21 The Crescent
- Town
- Bedford
- Salary
- £28,407 - £34,581 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/07/2024 23:59
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Recovery worker Assessment Team
NHS AfC: Band 5
ELFT has long been recognised as a centre of excellence for mental and health care, innovation and improvement. So it is a very exciting time for you to come and work for us. Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Job overview
Working in the dynamic Assessment team to support patients into treatment.
This role can be based wither in the Bedford or Dunstable hub dependent on service requirement.
Main duties of the job
Assessing, care planning and risk assessing skills are key to this exciting role. You will need to have worked with people with substance misuse issues and have excellent communication skills as well as a desire to support people into treatment. Your role will be to support those people looking for Opiate substitute treatment as well as this those who are alcohol dependent to prepare them for the longer treatment required in the wider recovery team. Group work is also a requirement for this role.
Working for our organisation
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please for further information kindly refer to the job description and person specification attached to this vacancy.
Person specification
Education, Training & Qualifications
Essential criteria
- English and Maths at minimum GCSE or higher (or equivalent).
- Information and Communication Technology literacy
Desirable criteria
- Minimum NVQ level 4
- Professional Qualification e.g. Nursing, Social Work or Counselling.
- Substance Misuse Training.
- Experience of working in social care
- Training in Motivational Interviewing or other psychosocial interventions.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working within substance misuse services or Health or Social Care.
- Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team.
- Experience of providing evidence based interventions
- Experience of Recovery Focused interventions.
- Experience of using Information and Communication Technology to deliver clinical practice.
Skills & Abilities, and Values
Essential criteria
- Ability to apply recovery values and principles in day to day work
- Ability to empower service users to draw from their strengths and assets, and identify solutions.
- Skills in assessing needs and setting goals.
- Skills in planning, implementing and evaluating care.
- Ability to manage a caseload.
- Effective communication skills, verbal and written.
- Ability to respond flexibly to the demands of the service
- Ability to maintain professional boundaries and work effectively with service users, colleagues and other agencies.
- Have a positive attitude to learning and personal development.
Knowledge & Understanding
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of addiction theories and evidence based interventions in substance misuse
- Understanding and commitment to the values and principles of Recovery.
- Understanding of statutory responsibilities e.g. Safeguarding Children.
- Understanding and commitment to delivering Key Performance Indicators.
- Understanding and commitment to delivering quality care in line with national monitoring egCQC
- Understanding and commitment to Equality and Diversity.
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Julian Mockridge
- Job title
- Hub Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0333 332 4019
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