Drug & Alcohol Worker

2 weeks ago


Harrogate, United Kingdom Humankind Charity Full time

**Vacancy No**
- VN3840

**Employment Type**
- Full-Time

**Hours Per Week**
- 37.00

**Work Pattern**
- Monday to Friday

**Location**
- North Park Road - Harrogate HG1 5PD

**Location Region**
- North Yorkshire

**Location City**
- Harrogate

**Location Postal Code**
- HG1 5PD

**Interview Date**
- 04 Mar 2024

**Job Details**

**Drug & Alcohol Worker**
Looking for more than just a job? Look no further as we have an exciting opportunity to join our North Yorkshire Horizons team team as a Drug & Alcohol Worker.
- **About Us**
North Yorkshire Horizons is a Drug and alcohol service for adults, made up of several key partners including Humankind, enabling the development of a peer led, recovery community. Providing a safe environment in which people can develop the life skills, and confidence to achieve and maintain recovery and abstinence from their substance misuse, successfully re-integrate into society, and become active, contributing citizens.
- **About the role**
As a Drug and Alcohol Worker you will be an integral member of the dynamic multi-agency team providing harm reduction advice, assessing and engaging new clients entering treatment, needle exchange provision and risk management.
- The post holder will work closely with appropriate partners and stakeholders within office based, community and outreach settings.
- Key duties include:

- Engaging and assessing new clients
- Harm reduction advice
- Risk management
- Recovery planning
- Case management

**About you**
- Relevant qualifications in social care work, counselling, or a related field
- Experience working in the field of substance use or a related area
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Ability to work collaboratively within a multi-agency team
- Understanding of harm reduction principles and recovery-focused approaches
- Case management experience
- Driving license is preferred but not essential

**View the job description and person specification**

Should you wish to discuss the vacancy further, please contact: Jenna Wing on: 01723 330730.
- **‘The salary advertised below demonstrates the full earning potential for this role, starting salaries will allow for pay progression within the pay band’**

**Who are we**
Humankind is one of England’s most successful home-grown charities. We provide free, confidential support for alcohol, drugs, housing, or mental health in friendly local places across the UK. We are committed to fair chances for all and making sure everyone can access the help and support they need to realise their potential. By joining our teams of passionate individuals, you will be contributing to making this happen. You can really make a difference by believing in our service users and their ability to make positive changes when they don’t always believe in themselves.
- We are incredibly proud of the work that we do to help address health inequalities in England. Every five minutes, an individual accesses one of our services, and we have supported over 90,000 people across all our services last year. Check out our impact report **here** to read more about the important work that we have done.
- **What can Humankind offer you**
- ️
Generous annual leave entitlement (27 days, plus bank holidays, increasing to 32 after 1 years’ service)- Annual leave purchase scheme- Enhanced occupational sick pay- %
Enhanced employer contribution to your workplace pension- Death in service benefit- Free Will writing- Eyecare vouchers- ️
Blue light card discount- Fantastic learning and development opportunities, including free training courses- Work-life balance
- flexible working and family friendly policies- ️
- Happy, Healthy You - our wellbeing offers for our workforce- Employee Assist Programme and Humankind Support Networks**Humankind is an equal opportunities employer**

**Salary Period**

**Vacancy Salary Range**
- £22,500.00

**DBS Requirement**
- Enhanced

**Does role require Police/Prison vetting?**
- Not Applicable

**Driving licence required for role?**
- No

**Applications Close Date**
- 25 Feb 2024



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