Community Outreach Support Worker

3 days ago

Aylesbury, United Kingdom The Oasis Partnership Full time

**Job Title**:Community Outreach Support Worker

**Salary**: Up to £24,168 p.a.

**Location**: This role can be based in either High Wycombe or Aylesbury

**Job Role**:This is a full-time/permanent role (37.5 hours per week) and may include some evening and weekend work including bank holidays

**Job Summary**:
As a Community Connector with the Oasis Partnership, you will be a valued part of the One Recovery Bucks team delivering the service alongside the Midlands Partnership Foundation Trust and Connection Support.

**Job Purpose**:

- To provide a high-quality service to offenders and clients who have a history of substance misuse related problems by engaging with them in a custodial and community setting.
- To be a point of contact for Police custody suites across Buckinghamshire.
- Provide relevant interventions based upon appropriate assessment or need and provide all relevant services in line with agreed targets and objectives
- Provide advice, advocacy and harm reduction advice to clients who have a history of problematic substance use.
- Where appropriate to work in close partnership with other agencies to ensure clients access a full range of services
- To promote One Recovery Bucks to a wide range of partners, key-stakeholders and the general public.

**Responsibilities**:

- To work directly with offenders, clients and potential clients delivering motivation interviewing interventions to support clients in accessing services.
- To engage with offenders who either test positive for Class A substances, request to speak with a Substance Misuse Worker or have been arrested for a drug / alcohol related crime
- Undertake assessments & provide harm reduction advice.
- To implement and manage referrals using structured guidelines & to provide support for continuity of care.
- To attend appropriate internal and external meetings.
- Raise awareness of Naloxone to professionals and service users
- To manage own workload, engaging in the provision of brief interventions, assessment and care planning to people with substance related problems.
- Raise awareness about substances, their use and effects including the link between offending and substance misuse.
- To contribute to the development of services and policies.
- To participate in and plan training for other professionals/groups.
- To participate in regular supervision and take part in annual appraisal and review.
- To comply with all One Recovery Bucks (ORB) policies and procedures.
- To positively promote ORB at all times within court teams and to all external partners
- A qualification in substance misuse, social work, nursing and/or counselling, psychology or NVQ Level 3 in a related field.
- Experience of direct client work with drug users or a comparable client group.
- Experience of using assessment tools.
- Experience of one-to-one work abilities and attributes.
- To evidence experience of proactive client engagement.
- The ability to work in a pressurised, multi-disciplinary environment.
- The ability to work effectively and efficiently within a team and build effective working relationships with other agencies, and at the same time be abel to work autonomously.
- A non-judgemental attitude to drug and alcohol misuse
- Good written and verbal communication skills with a good level of IT skills.
- Effective listening skills
- Good computer skills including use of Microsoft programmes such as Word and Excel
- Knowledge of the range of community drug services and models of treatment
- Knowledge and processional experience of the Criminal Justice System
- An understanding of the needs of drug users and knowledge of harm minimisation.
- An understanding of care planning
- Knowledge of brief intervention methods including Brief Solution Focussed Therapy and Motivational Interviewing

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