Job summary
As a Opiate Key Worker working within our Peterborough team and the community you will provide support to people that have been identified as requiring help with addressing their Opiate use. You will deliver a range or interventions and provide a package of holistic support to help build resilience and improve peoples ability to achieve their goals and build recovery.
Main duties of the job
Deliver specific interventions designed to reduce the harm caused by use of opiates via
PODs or one to one working
Ensure that service users receive a comprehensive, recovery-based detoxification
service user plan; including support for preparation for detox and aftercare
Follow CGL prescription policies, procedures and governance when facilitating service
users access to appropriate OST
Assessment of need including current drug use; drug history; physical and mental health;
social situation and risk assessment.
Work with other agencies and the community to build recovery capital for service users
signposting to mutual aid and other networks
Provide a holistic approach to all reviews, working with the prescriber, safeguarding lead
and other people within the service to ensure best outcomes for service users
Work to provide successful outcomes for all service users leaving treatment in the service to ensure best outcomes for service usersSupport the reduction of individuals who disengage following assessment
About us
Change Grow Live are a charity dedicated to the belief that we can make a difference to our Service Users lives, offering support and respect in a safe environment, treating each user as an individual and working with them to find the right treatment and care options.
Our core values are Be open, be compassionate and be bold and our team members apply these daily to achieve our mission of helping people change the direction of their lives, grow as individuals, and live life to its full potential.
We believe that having diverse people working as part of our team makes us the organisation that we are.
We actively encourage applications from people from all backgrounds to help us to provide the best possible experience for the people who use our services and to make Change Grow Live a great place to work. If you have any feedback on our recruitment processes (good or bad) wed love to hear from you so that we can make sure they are fair and we attract and recruit the best, most diverse workforce possible.
The safety of vulnerable children, young people and adults is our absolute priority. We will support you in your role to make sure that you are equipped to support the safety of people who use our services and those around them, to the highest standard possible.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will work as an integral part of the multi-disciplinary team at the service named above to deliver high quality provision by:
- Supporting service users from point of entry into the service and through their treatment/recovery journey;
- Providing screening, assessment, and recovery planning and onward referral;
- Reducing drug and alcohol related harm to service users and the wider community;
- Promoting carer, service user and community involvement;
- Providing advocacy for access to partnership services.
- Working with service users to support social (re)integration, enabling them to lead meaningful and purposeful lives: promoting recovery, resilience, peer support and self determination.
Role-specific responsibilities
- Act as main care coordinator overseeing assigned groups of service users, providing: screening; asset mapping; comprehensive assessments; recovery planning (using motivational interviewing techniques) and reviews of care.
- Coordinate a tailor-made package of care including:
- Recognised psycho-social interventions;
- 1 to 1 key work, POD and group work;
- Clinical interventions;
- Harm minimisation and brief interventions.
- The post holder will be the broker for these interventions, but will not regularly deliver them.
- Carry out comprehensive service user assessments, including asset mapping of community resources and develop individual recovery plans that clearly identify how achieving each goal
- Will enable progression in addressing substance use and re/integrating into the community.
- Support the development of service based recovery communities.
- Further develop CGLs links with local recovery groups / mutual aid groups.
- Ensure the timely and accurate collection, recording and reporting of specified data.
- Assess suitability for groups in terms of risk and special needs.
- Carry out risk assessments and risk management.
- Triage assessment and onward referral to a range of treatment/community support agencies.
- Work with prescribing clinicians to support substitute prescribing regimes to improve social functioning.
- To be creative and innovative so that the post best meets the needs of the service user, promoting access in to treatment, and continued engagement with underrepresented communities
- Ensure that all aspects of confidentiality are adhered to and that consent to share information is a key element to building trusting therapeutic alliances.
- Help individuals to develop recovery resources and access peer and mutual support groups to develop their own recovery capital.
- Work and liaise with other agencies involved with the service users broader care plan including health services, hospitals and GPs.
- To support the smooth running of the service, by contributing to tasks such as reception, duty cover, and clinical duties on an ad hoc basis.
- Provide health education especially in regard to harm minimisation, blood borne viruses and overdose prevention.
- To assist and carry out appropriate screening processes including DBST, urine and saliva tests, after completion of appropriate training or demonstration of relevant experience.
- To carry out key harm reduction strategies such as running of the Needle Exchange and distribution of Naloxone, after completion of appropriate training or demonstration of relevant experience.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will work as an integral part of the multi-disciplinary team at the service named above to deliver high quality provision by:
- Supporting service users from point of entry into the service and through their treatment/recovery journey;
- Providing screening, assessment, and recovery planning and onward referral;
- Reducing drug and alcohol related harm to service users and the wider community;
- Promoting carer, service user and community involvement;
- Providing advocacy for access to partnership services.
- Working with service users to support social (re)integration, enabling them to lead meaningful and purposeful lives: promoting recovery, resilience, peer support and self determination.
Role-specific responsibilities
- Act as main care coordinator overseeing assigned groups of service users, providing: screening; asset mapping; comprehensive assessments; recovery planning (using motivational interviewing techniques) and reviews of care.
- Coordinate a tailor-made package of care including:
- Recognised psycho-social interventions;
- 1 to 1 key work, POD and group work;
- Clinical interventions;
- Harm minimisation and brief interventions.
- The post holder will be the broker for these interventions, but will not regularly deliver them.
- Carry out comprehensive service user assessments, including asset mapping of community resources and develop individual recovery plans that clearly identify how achieving each goal
- Will enable progression in addressing substance use and re/integrating into the community.
- Support the development of service based recovery communities.
- Further develop CGLs links with local recovery groups / mutual aid groups.
- Ensure the timely and accurate collection, recording and reporting of specified data.
- Assess suitability for groups in terms of risk and special needs.
- Carry out risk assessments and risk management.
- Triage assessment and onward referral to a range of treatment/community support agencies.
- Work with prescribing clinicians to support substitute prescribing regimes to improve social functioning.
- To be creative and innovative so that the post best meets the needs of the service user, promoting access in to treatment, and continued engagement with underrepresented communities
- Ensure that all aspects of confidentiality are adhered to and that consent to share information is a key element to building trusting therapeutic alliances.
- Help individuals to develop recovery resources and access peer and mutual support groups to develop their own recovery capital.
- Work and liaise with other agencies involved with the service users broader care plan including health services, hospitals and GPs.
- To support the smooth running of the service, by contributing to tasks such as reception, duty cover, and clinical duties on an ad hoc basis.
- Provide health education especially in regard to harm minimisation, blood borne viruses and overdose prevention.
- To assist and carry out appropriate screening processes including DBST, urine and saliva tests, after completion of appropriate training or demonstration of relevant experience.
- To carry out key harm reduction strategies such as running of the Needle Exchange and distribution of Naloxone, after completion of appropriate training or demonstration of relevant experience.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- The post holder will have prior knowledge and experience of providing
- interventions for service users affected by Opiate use and a commitment to multi-agency working and establishing partnerships with other professions to achieve good outcomes for the service user group, e.g. mental health services, criminal justice agencies, community groups, etc. Accomplished written and verbal communication skills and a high degree of personal IT competency. The ability to accurately update and maintain records in a timely fashion and to work to deadlines for the submission of information, e.g. reports. Excellent time management skills, and an ability to work on own initiative, prioritising accordingly. Excellent team working and interpersonal skills, maintaining a highly cooperative approach to supporting colleagues in delivering service objectives. Good working knowledge of mental health interventions, services and good practice. Experience of working in an outcomes-focussed environment
Desirable
- To be able to critically reflect and evaluate interventions and service
- delivery, identifying areas for development.
- Experience of contributing to project development.
- Knowledge of local services including mutual aid networks.
Qualifications
Essential
- No formal qualification but have an excellent understanding of drug and alcohol issues and experience of working within a related field.
Desirable
- Advanced professional qualification in substance misuse, counselling,
- or social work.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- The post holder will have prior knowledge and experience of providing
- interventions for service users affected by Opiate use and a commitment to multi-agency working and establishing partnerships with other professions to achieve good outcomes for the service user group, e.g. mental health services, criminal justice agencies, community groups, etc. Accomplished written and verbal communication skills and a high degree of personal IT competency. The ability to accurately update and maintain records in a timely fashion and to work to deadlines for the submission of information, e.g. reports. Excellent time management skills, and an ability to work on own initiative, prioritising accordingly. Excellent team working and interpersonal skills, maintaining a highly cooperative approach to supporting colleagues in delivering service objectives. Good working knowledge of mental health interventions, services and good practice. Experience of working in an outcomes-focussed environment
Desirable
- To be able to critically reflect and evaluate interventions and service
- delivery, identifying areas for development.
- Experience of contributing to project development.
- Knowledge of local services including mutual aid networks.
Qualifications
Essential
- No formal qualification but have an excellent understanding of drug and alcohol issues and experience of working within a related field.
Desirable
- Advanced professional qualification in substance misuse, counselling,
- or social work.
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.
