Job summary
The purpose of this role is:-
To work for the One Recovery Bucks Service in the Aylesbury Vale community community taking a multi-agency approach working with all partners also working in the area, offering a targeted support option to people using drugs and alcohol, or at risk of using substances as they may be homeless, living at hostel, recently released from prison or on community order.
The successful candidate will report directly to the Specialist Safeguarding Lead.
- To provide a wide range of interventions with service users and substance users not yet accessing treatment, engaging them in community and open access services.
- To provide an essential liaison role to draw in local community assets to support the delivery of harm reduction and recovery focused outcomes, promoting and creating opportunities for service users to change.
- Work collaboratively with partners to ensure sustainable recovery opportunities are embedded within the service by integrating health, well-being, education, employment, training, volunteering, housing and social support.
- To promote mutual aid and peer support groups, facilitating access by maintaining referral pathways.
- To promote One Recovery Bucks to a wide range of partners, key-stakeholders and the general public.
- To motivate and engage people with Recovery Network Opportunities, Early Intervention groups, Harm Reduction, Access to Employment, Training, Education and Volunteering support.
Main duties of the job
The responsibilities include:-
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Work as an integral part of the One Recovery
Bucks service in delivering high quality and time bound interventions to Service
Users throughout Bucks
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Engage people into open access services,
which include take up off the needle and syringe exchange programme, harm
reduction, structured and semi-structured interventions. Covering at least one
open access service per week to link from community into services.
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Work with a range of organisations and
members of the community to harness local community assets, bridging between
the community and One Recovery Bucks, supporting long-term sustainable change
for service users. And those not in service eg cannabis users it is not
necessarily about getting them into treatment but diverting them elsewhere.
- Supporting a service user through their
treatment from assessment and throughout their recovery journey as appropriate
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Supporting clients within Open Access, holding
a small caseload of non-complex service users working collaboratively to reduce
harm and build their recovery capital ensuring positive outcomes are achieved.
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Promoting Service User, Carer and Community
Involvement
- Ensuring that your work is evidence based, up
to date and in accordance with current policy, legislation and best practice. Training
available on local policies and procedures.
About us
The Oasis Partnership, which was established more than 35 years ago, is
the largest adult substance misuse charity in Bucks, delivering the One
Recovery Bucks (ORB) service alongside the Midlands Partnership Foundation
Trust (MPFT). Oasis is a Disability Committed employer.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Apart from the responsibilities above, you will also be expected:-
- Provide a needle syringe exchange service and distribution of Naloxone and Naloxone Training.
- Provide harm reduction advice, information and support with an emphasis on safer drug or alcohol use, safer sex, awareness of blood borne infections.
- Engage service users into treatment and support throughout their Recovery Journey in partnership with other staff.
- Complete screening and asset-based mapping to identify appropriate recovery focused interventions.
- Supporting recovery plans with service users that are goal focused.
- Care-coordinate an identified caseload of service users as appropriate to role.
- Identify and effectively manage risk with service users
- Identify and effectively oversee all Safeguarding Children and Safeguarding Adults processes engaging with ORB lead as appropriate.
- Brief solution focused therapy and motivational enhancement techniques. Refer to keyworker, groups, and open access
- To assist and support prescribing regimes with keyworker. Support and motivate service users to remain in treatment.
- To make home visits consistent with need particularly for those with disabilities and to those with family responsibilities.
- Further details can be found on the job description
Job description
Job responsibilities
Apart from the responsibilities above, you will also be expected:-
- Provide a needle syringe exchange service and distribution of Naloxone and Naloxone Training.
- Provide harm reduction advice, information and support with an emphasis on safer drug or alcohol use, safer sex, awareness of blood borne infections.
- Engage service users into treatment and support throughout their Recovery Journey in partnership with other staff.
- Complete screening and asset-based mapping to identify appropriate recovery focused interventions.
- Supporting recovery plans with service users that are goal focused.
- Care-coordinate an identified caseload of service users as appropriate to role.
- Identify and effectively manage risk with service users
- Identify and effectively oversee all Safeguarding Children and Safeguarding Adults processes engaging with ORB lead as appropriate.
- Brief solution focused therapy and motivational enhancement techniques. Refer to keyworker, groups, and open access
- To assist and support prescribing regimes with keyworker. Support and motivate service users to remain in treatment.
- To make home visits consistent with need particularly for those with disabilities and to those with family responsibilities.
- Further details can be found on the job description
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- The ideal candidate will have a qualification in substance misuse, social work, nursing and/or counselling, psychology or NVQ Level 3 in a related field, or will be working towards this.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of direct client work with drug users or a comparable client group.
- Experience of using assessment tools.
- Experience of one-to-one work abilities and attributes.
- To evidence experience of proactive client engagement.
- The ability to work in a pressurised, multi-disciplinary environment.
- The ability to work effectively and efficiently within a team and build effective working relationships with other agencies, and at the same time be able to work autonomously.
- A non-judgemental attitude to drug and alcohol misuse
- Good written and verbal communication skills with a good level of IT skills.
- Effective listening skills
- Good computer skills including use of Microsoft programmes such as Word and Excel
- Knowledge of the range of community drug services and models of treatment
- Knowledge and processional experience of the Criminal Justice System
- An understanding of the needs of drug users and knowledge of harm minimisation.
- An understanding of care planning
- Knowledge of brief intervention methods including Brief Solution Focussed Therapy and Motivational Interviewing
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- The ideal candidate will have a qualification in substance misuse, social work, nursing and/or counselling, psychology or NVQ Level 3 in a related field, or will be working towards this.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of direct client work with drug users or a comparable client group.
- Experience of using assessment tools.
- Experience of one-to-one work abilities and attributes.
- To evidence experience of proactive client engagement.
- The ability to work in a pressurised, multi-disciplinary environment.
- The ability to work effectively and efficiently within a team and build effective working relationships with other agencies, and at the same time be able to work autonomously.
- A non-judgemental attitude to drug and alcohol misuse
- Good written and verbal communication skills with a good level of IT skills.
- Effective listening skills
- Good computer skills including use of Microsoft programmes such as Word and Excel
- Knowledge of the range of community drug services and models of treatment
- Knowledge and processional experience of the Criminal Justice System
- An understanding of the needs of drug users and knowledge of harm minimisation.
- An understanding of care planning
- Knowledge of brief intervention methods including Brief Solution Focussed Therapy and Motivational Interviewing
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.
