Opiate Key Worker

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

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.

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.

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.

Employer details

Employer name

Change Grow Live

Address

190 Church Road

Croydon

CR0 1SE

Employer's website

https://www.changegrowlive.org/ (Opens in a new tab)