PH & SU - Substance Use Recovery Worker in Manchester

About the job

What I am accountable for:

• Effective case management of service users with substance use issues.
• To carry out comprehensive substance use assessments including assessment of personal strengths and identification of any risk factors.
• Formulate, monitor and review risk assessments and risk management plans that effectively safeguard and protect service users and families/carers from harm.
• To develop person centred recovery plans using a strengths based approach in partnership with service users and others involved in their support network.
• Maintain a high standard of case notes and prepare and present narrative reports as required.
• Effective delivery of Group intervention sessions.
• Consistent, timely and accurate collection, recording and reporting of data and information relating to a client treatment journey.
• Ensuring achievement of key performance indicators relevant to your role.
• Effective multiagency working with statutory and nonstatutory agencies in relation to the wider presenting needs and complexities of service users.
• Deliver and support harm reduction interventions, including needle exchange and access to physical health care including BBV and health screening.
• Ensuring all paperwork and recording in accordance with our policy and procedure and follow information governance guidelines.

WHAT I NEED:

• 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 aware.
• 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.
• Working as part of a team with colleagues including providing cover for planned and unplanned absences.
• Actively participate in multi-disciplinary team meetings and other service meetings.
• Thorough and timely communication with partner agencies e.g. GPs, Safeguarding, Criminal Justice Partners.
• Undertaking training to enhance skills, knowledge and practice.
• Seeking advice from colleagues, subject matter experts, clinical staff and managers to support practice.
• Actively engaging in your own supervision, Ongoing Personal Review and Personal Development Planning Process.
• Representing us and our organisational values at meetings and events; Ensuring an environment free from discrimination.
• Prioritising safeguarding of children and vulnerable adults and escalating any concerns.
• 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).