Specialist Recovery Worker

An exciting opportunity has arisen for 3 Specialist Recovery Workers to join our teams across Buckinghamshire on a 12 month full-time fixed-term contract!

You will ensure the engagement of hard to reach service users with substance use issues into treatment, completing relevant engagement work, assessments and referring to local services to ensure continuity of care. Working within a multi-agency, multi-disciplinary team, in a community environment delivering a high standard drug and alcohol recovery services in response to the needs of the service users as part of Inclusion and Midlands Partnership Foundation Trust.

The successful candidate will work in partnership with key agencies to ensure multi-agency care planning for service users, supporting their individual recovery journeys and those entering treatment remain in treatment. The successful candidate will deliver a range of psycho-social interventions appropriate to the individual to motivate engagement and promote entering and remaining in treatment, whilst supporting service users to achieve recovery and positive outcomes, improve health & well-being outcomes, reduce re-offending / anti-social behaviour and reduce impact on other services.

Inclusion, created in 2002 is part of the Specialist Services Care Group of Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT). We provide caring and effective services across England, including, West Yorkshire, West Midlands, East Midlands, West Mercia, Thames Valley, Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Thurrock, Essex. We support individuals, families and communities who are affected by addiction, crime, mental health or need treatment for their sexual health. We believe that the individuals and families who use our services should receive high quality, committed and inclusive care, realising all the benefits a modern NHS organisation can provide. We work with patients and our staff teams to achieve the best outcomes we can. We invest heavily in training and development, and the wellbeing of our people, both staff and service users is central to who we are. Here at MPFT, we are proud of the comprehensive wellbeing and lifestyle support offer available, in addition to in-house training and coaching support. Our services are robustly governed, evidence-based, inclusive, and designed and provided in conjunction with service users. We are committed to providing the best service we can, and if you share our values, we want you on our team!

Please see attached job description and person specification for further details, a summary is below:

• To deliver a strengths-based, recovery orientated and outcome-focussed link service for all service users who are hard to engage into One Recovery Bucks with a particular emphasis on high standards and good practice (in accordance with the Blue Light Manual).
• To provide this cohort with practical support, information and guidance on relevant issues i.e. physical and mental health signposting, housing, debt / benefits and education, training and employment (ETE), providing and maintaining accurate records of advice and support given.
• Ensure appropriate and effective risk management plans are in place for each service user, taking into consideration planning around safeguarding including risks of abuse and exploitation.
• To use strengths-based approaches including mapping techniques and relevant paperwork in order to carry out initial screening assessments.
• To carry out further assessments when required that includes strengths-based node-link mapping techniques and recovery planning.
• To work with a range of partnership agencies to co-ordinate planning and support for care in particular, to develop close links with Hospitals (High Intensity Users Groups), GPs, Adult Social Care, Mental Health, RSI/Housing, Probation / CRC, Police and other partnership agencies.

• Relevant experience in a comparable setting

• Ability to work collaboratively with other professionals and develop links with agencies internal and external

• Thorough knowledge of substance use and effects
• Knowledge of risk assessing and producing risk management plans

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.