Sanctuary Personnel – Ref: 1234 - Supoort Worker
Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with a TrustPilot score of 4.9/5 and over 300 reviews has a locum role available.
Location: Lewisham
Hourly Rate: £14 - £16 per hour (assignment rate)
Type of Contract: Locum, 3-Months
Benefits of working with us:
- Fully online and paperless registration service
- Free DBS and compliance service including paid for mandatory e-learning and practical training modules (if applicable)
- Exclusive access to roles that aren’t available with other agencies; NHSBT, The Home Office and Vaccination Centres (private and public) are just some of the projects we’ve recently recruited to.
- £250 refer a friend bonus once referral has worked 100 hours (uncapped – T&Cs apply)
- Registration body costs covered based on length of service (T&Cs apply)
- Find your own job bonus - Receive £250 for bringing your own position to us
- Clinical governance and revalidation support from an in-house qualified health professional with over 15 years’ experience
- Your own dedicated consultant with extensive experience within the healthcare sector
- Daily payroll and in-house payroll system
Requirements of the Supoort Worker:
- Recent experience within Substance Misuse, Substance Abuse, Addiction, Drug and Alcohol, Needle Exchange, or Recovery
Main Duties:
- Support the screening and assessment process, providing access to drop in and assessments, offering advice and information to Young People, parents, family members and carers, including drugs, alcohol, and sexual health
- Ensure risk assessments of immediate presenting needs are carried out, risk management plans are robust and regularly reviewed.
- Provide brief health and wellbeing interventions around drug and alcohol, and sexual health, offering advice and information, signposting, or providing enhanced access to specialist services
- Support the service user to transition to access support and support engagement with all agencies involved in their care
- Offer screening for drugs and alcohol, DBST, pregnancy testing and support to access STI self-testing, communicating, and recording the results as appropriate
- Co-facilitate home visits and welfare checks. Co-facilitate groups and support drop-in sessions, workshops, training, and satellites
- Contribute to and offer support to ensure an effective care plan is in place.
- Actively engage service users in service design, review, and development.
- Maintain professional links with relevant organisations to ensure co-ordination of care and referral links.
- Work closely and collaboratively within the multi-disciplinary team across the service partnership and externally, providing advice and information to managers and other colleagues, through attendance at reviews, team meetings, and supervision and via telephone conversations.
- Improve outcomes for families of service users by reducing the impact of drug and alcohol related harm on family life and promote positive family involvement in recovery.
Contact:
This Supoort Worker Worker job is advertised by Jakub Pucula; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.
We welcome applications from Substance Misuse Workers/Practitioners, Recovery Workers, Recovery Practitioners, Recovery Coordinators, Needle Exchange Workers who meet the above requirements.
Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into you work placement.
