Specialist Drug
7 months ago
**Specialist Drug & Alcohol Support Worker**
**Salary** £26,045 per annum (plus sleep in allowance)
**Location** Harlow, Essex
**Contract type** Permanent
**Weekly hours** 37.5 (shifts - day and night)
**The vacancy**
We are looking for** Specialist Drug & Alcohol Support Workers** to join our team.
This is a great opportunity to support people who wish to recover and move on from addiction.
You will be offering _vital _day to day support to promote _wellbeing_ and_ recovery._
We are looking for passionate people who are energetic and enthusiastic about helping others. This is a truly important opportunity to make a difference to others and to your career.
**What we’re looking for**:
- Do you have a qualification or experience of Treatment and Recovery for people with drug or Alcohol problems?- If you don't have a qualification or experience, do you have an insight into addiction, and the impact of substance misuse?- Do you understand addiction and the impacts of substance misuse, along with experience of working with vulnerable people who have experienced trauma and may have complex and challenging support needs?
- Do you have experience of working with other agencies and statutory organisations, particularly within the Substance misuse, housing, and social care sectors?- Do you have a good knowledge of statutory and community services?
If so, this role is perfect for you
Here at Peabody, we have opportunities for a **Specialist Drug & Alcohol Support Workers** on a Permanent basis at our Harlow Scheme, Essex.
- Even if you do not have a qualification or experience, but an insight into addiction we would still love to hear from you, as we can discuss a potential trainee pathway in this role_
**A bit about the role**:
As a** Specialist Drug & Alcohol Support Worker,** you will support individual customers who have been referred to the service and are in _Recovery_.
Your role and that of the team will be to develop a package of support that enables the customers to reduce the risk of harm caused by drugs and alcohol, develop their confidence in accessing the local community and maintain their tenancies.
You will also use your skills and experience to offer specialised advice and guidance to colleagues and customers. In line with the schemes policies and procedures you will also offer specialised interventions when required.
**Some of the key results for the role include: **
- Ensure the effective delivery of the Drug & Alcohol, Supported Housing service for our customers with a history of addiction who are on the recovery journey. Provide proactive and effective specialised support by modelling good practice, advising on, and intervening in, complex and/or high-risk cases. Provide personalised, structured, and flexible support to our customers to enable individuals to improve and maintain their independence. To work collaboratively with partners, to ensure the Drug & Alcohol Supported Housing service provides an all-round Holistic service for customers.
- This role will require an Enhanced DBS check. _
- The role includes working shifts to ensure there is cover for the service 24 hrs a day 7 days a week 365 days a year. This will include Sleep-ins (in receipt of a shift allowance)._
**A bit about us: **
160 years after it was established, Peabody is one of the oldest not-for-profit housing associations in the UK.
The Peabody Group is responsible for more than 107,000 homes, with around 220,000 residents across London and the Home Counties. We also have around 20,000 care and support customers.
Our purpose is to help people flourish, and we are getting closer to residents by taking a local approach.
We are committed to delivering a responsive and easily accessible repairs service and investing in our existing homes so they are safe and well maintained. Our retrofit projects will make thousands of our homes more energy efficient.
We work with councils and communities to promote economic inclusion, tackle inequality and poverty, and prioritise wellbeing.
**Here are just a few of the benefits of working at Peabody**:
- Up to 25 days’ annual holiday plus bank holidays
- Flexible benefits scheme, including options for Healthcare, Dental care, Critical illness cover, vouchers, technology scheme and access to a discount portal. 4 x Life Assurance- Sleep in allowance
- Competitive salaries that are benchmarked regularly against current market rates
- Professional development by access to "paid for" apprenticeship programs and qualifications- Two additional paid volunteering days each year
- Family friendly policies- Up to 10% pension contribution matched 1:1
**Are you ready to apply? **
PLEASE NOTE: As an employer, Peabody does not provide sponsorship as a licenced UK employer.
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