Peer Support Worker

5 days ago

High Blantyre, United Kingdom NHS Scotland Full time

We have an exciting opportunity for a full-time, permanent Peer Support Worker within The Community Addiction Recovery Service in South Lanarkshire.

The Community Addiction Recovery Service (CARS) provide harm reduction, interventions and treatment to people adversely affected by alcohol and drugs. The service delivers an integrated model of care and is staffed by colleagues from two different organisations - NHSL and SLC. The service operates in all four South Lanarkshire localities and each team is managed by a health or a social work colleague.
- Have a SVQ 3 in health/social care or working towards, or equivalent experience working in a health/social care role, or have personal experience of adversity caused by substance use
- Be willing to work over 7 days across Lanarkshire

**Knowledge, training and/or / experience required to do the job**:

- Have a working/living knowledge and understanding of the consequences and impact of adverse substance use (physical, social, environmental)
- Experience of working within alcohol and drug field either as a paid worker or as a recognised volunteer.
- Undertake full management of aggression training with updates
- Ability to work with people and as part of a multi-disciplinary team
- Effective verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to carry out assigned tasks effectively in a busy environment
- Ability to undertake training supporting use of computers and locally used data gathering tools
- Ability to work unsupervised

In NHS Lanarkshire we are committed to recruiting a workforce that fully reflects the diverse make-up of our society. A place where every individual can thrive, develop and succeed based on skill, knowledge and talent, regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, care experienced* or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another.

*Care-experienced applicants are people who live/have lived with foster parents/kinship carers or who live/have lived in a residential children’s setting/secure unit *

Whilst this advertisement may be for a specific post(s) in a particular location, applicants who are shortlisted for interview may be considered for similar vacancies in alternative locations.

NHS Lanarkshire Recruitment Website

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