Substance use Recovery Worker

Reading, Berkshire
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Providing high quality case management to a caseload of service users including assessment, recovery planning, risk assessments and case reviews ensuring completion within organisational policy timescales;

• Delivery of psychosocial treatment interventions in groups and on a 1:2:1 basis;

• Supporting service users to access clinical interventions where required including engaging in clinical reviews, ensuring these occur within organisational policy;

• Providing prescription to service users where these are not posted to pharmacies;

• Distributing and training service users in naloxone;

• Delivering harm reduction advice including distributing clean injecting equipment through needle syringe programmes;

• Completing urine testing and dry blood spot testing following appropriate infection control procedures;

• Ensuring access to Recovery Support interventions including onward referrals;

• High quality record keeping for service users in treatment;

• Completing all tasks and documentation to ensure achievement of key performance indicators relevant to your role; GREEN

• Writing reports as required (e.g. safeguarding reports)

Essential :

• Substance use knowledge;

• Experience and knowledge of effective caseload management; Skills\Knowledge

• Demonstrable skills and knowledge in assessing risk presented by clients to themselves and others;

• Knowledge of engagement and intervention strategies;

• Harm reduction, suicide and self-harm aware;

• Organised with IT skills;

• Ability to manage own time, prioritise activities and maintain accountability for your work;

• Experience of working in partnership with different agencies;

• Maintain clear professional boundaries

Job Info
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Job Title:
Substance use Recovery Worker
Company:
CV-Library
Location:
Reading, Berkshire
Salary:
£18.50 Per hour
Posted:
Mar 31st 2025
Closes:
May 1st 2025
Sector:
Social Care
Contract:
Permanent
Hours:
Full Time
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