Harm Reduction and Needle Exchange Lead

7 months ago


Portsmouth, United Kingdom The Society of St James Full time

**Harm Reduction and Needle Exchange Lead**

**Portsmouth Substance Misuse Services**

**37 hours per week, Permanent**

**Salary Range: 27 - 30 (£28,989 - £32,163 per annum)**

**About Us**

This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic Charity and Housing Association. The Society of St James (SSJ) has been working in Hampshire for over 40 years, delivering high impact, person-centred, accommodation services to adults and young people experiencing homelessness, problematic substance use and mental health problems. We believe that every person is of worth and we are prepared to take risks to house and support the most vulnerable and socially excluded members of society.

**The Role**

You will work in the Adult Substance Misuse Community Services and across all of Portsmouth to deliver innovative and mobile interventions to IV drug users to support safer injecting, overdose prevention and reducing harm, criminality and the detrimental affect addiction has on individuals, families and the community. You will be an expert in your field of Harm Reduction and Needle Exchange and your role will be pivotal in training staff, services users and families and health and social care services to be confident in delivering evidence-based harm reduction advice.

Your day-to-day tasks will involve training and proactively responding to areas of concern where drug using practices are causing concern such as needle litter and community safety. You will coach staff knowledge of best practice with blood borne viruses such as Hep C, Hep B and HIV and lead pioneering city-wide interventions to tackle BBV testing and treatment. Your role will have a clear focus on working with pharmacies who offer needle exchange programs and will ensure that lifesaving overdose prevention medicines such as Naloxone is readily available for service users and their friends, families and support workers.

The role will have a base within The Recovery Hub and Homelessness services and your role will require you to be visiting clients in other services or in their own homes and working alongside key partner agencies such as peer support services, housing and homelessness services and outreach service just to name a few.

The role will require you to work within a flexible 37 hour working week including a rota of regular evening work and some work at weekends.

Your key responsibilities will include:

- Improving the quality and reach of harm reduction work across Portsmouth
- ensuring staff, volunteers and pharmacy staff receive appropriate training whilst
- coordinating links with pharmacies, to engage hard to reach clients with treatment service and ensure efficient stock distribution
- Be part of a dynamic management team leading on the implementation and development of Vanguard Systems Thinking
- To work with the volunteer coordinator to recruit, train and support peer mentors in line with the objective of this post.
- To research, develop and deliver appropriate training for peer mentors, staff and pharmacy staff on a regular basis
- Develop training programs to continually develop the service to provide what matters to our service users and our community
- Develop work practices to ensure the effective and safe operation of the service and the service performs as a centre of excellence for Substance Misuse needs
- Work closely with Hampshire Constabulary Police Force to support the dismantling of county line drug networks and safeguard the services users at risk
- Role model exceptionally high standards of service delivery, professionalism and service user focus
- Provide individual supervision to peers and volunteers and through consultation with them identify training and development needs and necessary skills to become a reflective practitioner
- Build meaningful relationships with service users and complete excellent records of risk assessment, recovery planning whilst working within a multidisciplinary team and alongside key partner agencies in health, housing, criminal justice and social care
- To identify and appropriately highlight issues of stigma shame and exclusion that prevent alcohol and drug users from accessing appropriate support and lead to health inequalities
- Working in close partnership with SSJ’s Substance Misuse Service Manager and NHS Inclusions Clinical Manger to manage needle exchange stock, budgets and ensure excellent reporting to commissioners and the NDTMS
- To develop your own cutting-edge knowledge and practice in the field of Harm Reduction and Pharmacy Liaison and represent SSJ at local and national forums.

**Staff Benefits**

We value and recognise our staff, offering some generous benefits, as well as the satisfaction of helping people at risk:

- Comprehensive induction and training
- Counselling, financial, personal support and health and wellbeing services via our Employee Assistance Programme
- A competitive annual leave entitlement of 25 days rising to 30 days, plus public holidays
- Flexible



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