Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a senior drug recovery worker to join our team at Brook Place. You will work as a qualified nurse offering substance misuse assessment, intervention and signposting to service users. You will work closely with other professionals, agencies, and service users to produce robust recovery plans and refer service users to all appropriate services. Whilst linking in with other professionals and agencies involved with service users, you will provide psychosocial interventions and recovery support.You must have at least 3 years suitable experience in the substance misuse field or be able to demonstrate knowledge and experience of working with individuals experiencing difficulty from substance misuse. You need to have excellent interpersonal skills and be able to motivate service users to enable recovery via appropriate pathways. The job description and person specification will give you more details about the role and through your application you should demonstrate how you meet the requirements.
short listing planned for 29th Sep 2023
interviews planned for 6th Oct 2023
Main duties of the job
The main requirements include:
- Assessment of service users substance misuse needs
- Offer appropriate harm reduction and treatment interventions
- Work with the wider MDT when supporting service users to meet all identified needs
- Deliver health promotion and harm reduction interventions
- Offer advice and support to other professionals and recovery workers
- To assess and manage risk, ensuring appropriate assessment and plans are in place
- To engage in regular supervision and contribute to the PACE process to support your development
- To be professionally accountable as a registered practitioner
About us
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 11 million people.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Assessment of service users substance misuse needs
- Offer appropriate harm reduction and treatment interventions
- Work with the wider MDT when supporting service users to meet all identified needs
- Deliver health promotion and harm reduction interventions
- Offer advice and support to other professionals and recovery workers
- To assess and manage risk, ensuring appropriate assessment and plans are in place
- To engage in regular supervision and contribute to the PACE process to support your development
- To be professionally accountable as a registered practitioner
- To support the wider team in MDT discussions, offering advice and clinical support as required
- Work independently and as part of a wider team
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Assessment of service users substance misuse needs
- Offer appropriate harm reduction and treatment interventions
- Work with the wider MDT when supporting service users to meet all identified needs
- Deliver health promotion and harm reduction interventions
- Offer advice and support to other professionals and recovery workers
- To assess and manage risk, ensuring appropriate assessment and plans are in place
- To engage in regular supervision and contribute to the PACE process to support your development
- To be professionally accountable as a registered practitioner
- To support the wider team in MDT discussions, offering advice and clinical support as required
- Work independently and as part of a wider team
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- First Level Nursing qualification
Desirable
- Non Medical Prescribing qualification
Knowledge
Essential
- Experience within the drug/alcohol field
- Experience of operational management and supervision needs of junior staff
- Experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team
- Experience of multi-agency working
- Experience of managing own caseload
Skills
Essential
- Ability to carry out assessment/recovery planning and reviews
- Effective communication skills both verbal & written
- Interpersonal skills/ability to deal with people at all levels
- Ability to take a lead role in assigned areas of work e.g. outreach, satellite clinics
- Ability to work on own and contribute to service development
- Negotiation skills, including ability to manage aggression
- Knowledge and understanding of policies and good practice relating to safeguarding adults and children
- Ability to develop and deliver effective training packages internally and externally to the service
- A demonstrated understanding of Equality and Human Rights
- Computer skills
- Commitment to training and continuing professional development
- Able to travel between Mersey Care sites in a timely manner
- Flexibility
- Understanding and ability to maintain confidentiality
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- First Level Nursing qualification
Desirable
- Non Medical Prescribing qualification
Knowledge
Essential
- Experience within the drug/alcohol field
- Experience of operational management and supervision needs of junior staff
- Experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team
- Experience of multi-agency working
- Experience of managing own caseload
Skills
Essential
- Ability to carry out assessment/recovery planning and reviews
- Effective communication skills both verbal & written
- Interpersonal skills/ability to deal with people at all levels
- Ability to take a lead role in assigned areas of work e.g. outreach, satellite clinics
- Ability to work on own and contribute to service development
- Negotiation skills, including ability to manage aggression
- Knowledge and understanding of policies and good practice relating to safeguarding adults and children
- Ability to develop and deliver effective training packages internally and externally to the service
- A demonstrated understanding of Equality and Human Rights
- Computer skills
- Commitment to training and continuing professional development
- Able to travel between Mersey Care sites in a timely manner
- Flexibility
- Understanding and ability to maintain confidentiality
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
