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**Closing Date**:Thursday 30th March, 2023

**Reports To**:GDAS Assertive Outreach Team Leader

**Grade/ Salary**:£22,500-£24,500 per annum

**Location**:Caerphilly, but may need to cover other areas if needed

**Hours**:Full Time, 35 hours per week

**Contract**:Fixed term, until 31st March 2026

**Background and service**:
The aim of the Gwent wide Adult Drug, Alcohol & Family Support Service is to engage drug and/or alcohol users and/or their concerned others in a continuum of service provision in order to reduce substance related harm, physical dependence, related health problems and improve psychological, family and social functioning in all domains of the service users, carers and concerned others lives.

**Role Purpose**:
Under supervision of mental health practitioners, the post holder will work as part of the multi-disciplinary outreach team to support the delivery of recovery care plans for clients with a range of mental health and substance misuse presentations in the community and facilitating appointments in the community and admissions/ discharges from hospital.

They will have working knowledge and experience of both drug and alcohol detoxification and treatment programmes with an understanding of both clinical and psychosocial aspects of care. They will have experience with service users who have mental health and co-occurring substance misuse difficulties to provide the speediest, most effective facilitation to connect with the services they may need.

The post-holder will work directly with service users with mental health/dual diagnosis difficulties across Newport. The main aim of the role is to engage with these individuals, identify barriers and work with them towards recovery and social stability.

The post holder will support the delivery of community based mental health and substance misuse support services within across Caerphilly.

They will work closely and in partnership with the other elements of the service including specialist mental health and substance misuse services in the borough. They will support the Dual Diagnosis Nurse in developing links between services that ensure service users with dual diagnoses access the full range of care and treatment services to meet their needs.

A further key role will be for the post holder to be part of the team supporting a caseload of dual diagnosis service users under the support of the Dual Diagnosis nurse. This post will involve linking with inpatient wards and working across agencies e.g. Primary Care, Complex Care Teams, substance misuse services and Third sector organisations.

The post holder will work intensively with people to support them in their home and/or community, preventing hospital admissions and emergency services responses alongside facilitating appointments in the community and hospital admissions/discharges where appropriate.

They will also have part of their time planned for specific activities which may include linking with a ward to support service users whilst they are an inpatient, supporting the assessment of service users within community mental health, substance misuse and primary care teams.

The post holder will be expected to work to a clearly defined personal recovery plan with the service users and use the range of interventions required.

The post holder will have a non-judgmental approach to people who have substance misuse and mental health problems and be able to provide a welcoming and accessible service to existing and potential service users.

All GDAS workers will be required to work evenings and weekends when required.

**Key Duties and Responsibilities**:

- To fully inform service users about their recovery/treatment options, involve them in decisions and consent, and encourage them to take opportunities to achieve a sustained recovery
- To ensure individuals’ personal strengths/recovery capital, including social capital and networks, continue to be built during the clinical phase
- To attend and report to safeguarding reviews, meetings and conferences, Multi-Agency Risk Assessment Conferences (MARACs) and Domestic Abuse Conference call (DACC)
- To work within agreed policies, procedures and protocols to safeguard children and vulnerable adults.
- To offer emotional support, advice, information and education where appropriate to service users, carers and their family including signposting them to other services.
- To foster and maintain good working relations with members of other community teams, health and social care workers and inpatient services. Receiving and sharing information from GPs, carers and other agencies.
- Be able to recognise signs of abuse and know procedures they need to follow to escalate their concerns.
- Help and support service users to maintain their health and prevent relapse of their mental illness
- Function as an associate worker to identified clients for the duration of their