Drug and Alcohol Treatment Worker
Required
A well-established Support Provider based in Bristol is looking for a Drug and Alcohol Treatment Worker to provide support to individuals with complex Alcohol and Substance Misuse issues
Location: Bristol
Contract duration: 9 Months +
Hours: 3 days per week
Hourly rate: £14.86 via Umbrella
Vacancy ref number: J67222 / 68435
Day to day responsibilities include:
- Encourage ambition, motivate and support individuals to become free from their problematic drug and/or alcohol use and to achieve their goals
- Based in GP Practices, to provide a range of evidence-based, structured support packages to people with primary problematic opioid use and/or dependent alcohol use
- Establish and maintain good liaison with General Practitioners, their reception staff and wider health care team
- Continue opioid substitute prescriptions under GP clinical supervision through assessment and stabilisation, maintenance or detoxification pathways
- Facilitate harm reduction amongst all service users
- Undertake urinalysis and mouth swab testing
- Offer and encourage BBV testing and promote access to treatment regarding BBV infection where appropriate
- Work with individuals who have become free of problematic drug and alcohol use, and encourage ambition, motivate and support them in the early stages of their recovery journey
- Use care planning tools to evaluate progress and agree ongoing recovery targets as appropriate with service users
- Use risk tools and make appropriate adult and child safeguarding referrals as needed
- To be involved in regular reviews with GPs and service users
Essential criteria include:
- Current enhanced DBS (ideally on the update service)
- Experience of working with service users with Substance Misuse issues
- Access to a vehicle with a full driving licence
To apply for this role or to find out about other Housing jobs, please contact Ashleigh Clarke or Paulo Davis from the Bristol Housing recruitment team on 0117 930 8760 or aclarke@venngroup.com
Venn Group is an equal opportunities employment business and employment agency and welcomes applications from all candidates.