Substance use Recovery Worker

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; GREEN • Writing reports as required (e.g. safeguarding reports) Essential : • Substance use knowledge; • Experience and knowledge of effective caseload management; Skills\\Knowledge • 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; • Maintain clear professional boundaries