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Learning and Practice Lead

1 month ago

Newport, United Kingdom Kaleidoscope Project Full time

_**WE DO NOT ACCEPT APPLICATIONS VIA INDEED, PLEASE APPLY VIA OUR WEBSITE ONLY**:_

**Location**: TBC, but will cover Gwent wide.
**Hours**: Full time, 35 hours per week.

We have an exciting opportunity in our established substance use service - GDAS (Gwent Drug and Alcohol Service) as a Learning and Development Lead.

If you have a passion for people development, staff and volunteer engagement, creative innovation, and workplace excellence please apply

This role will work as part of a small team, committed to delivering and developing the GDAS Learning and Practice plan.

This is a 35 hour/week Kaleidoscope post. It involves routine travel across Gwent.

Kaleidoscope offers the following benefits:

- Annual Leave - 25 days rising to 32 over 6 years, plus 8 bank holidays
- Pension - 2.5%-3% Organisation Contribution to match employee 2.5%-3% contribution.
- Simply Health -access to a cash back health care plan plus a free counselling support available to all staff 24/7
- Cycle to work scheme

**About GDAS**

The aim of the Gwent wide Adult Drug and Alcohol Service is to engage drug and/or alcohol users in a continuum of service provision in order to reduce substance related harm and improve functioning in all domains of the service users lives. This includes engaging and assessing service users, brief interventions and harm reduction, outreach, training, case management and aftercare, health promotion, detoxification programmes, needle exchange, maintenance and relapse prevention prescribing and wellbeing services.

We serve the population of Gwent (including those who are homeless) within the five local authority areas. The service is provided for adult drug and/or alcohol users aged 18 and over and are provided in a non-judgmental, non-discriminatory, professional manner demonstrating courtesy and respect for all individuals.

We are seeking empathic and dedicated individuals with experiences from a range of sectors to join us. We welcome people with experience of working not just in substance misuse - but in housing, mental health, primary care, secondary care, youth services, probation and other sectors that have transferable skills. We welcome individuals with their own lived experience of drug and alcohol use and/or mental health and from those who have supported others with lived experience.

**Role Purpose**:

- **Develop and Deliver the Internal GDAS Learning and Practice Programme**:_
- Develop and deliver an induction programme that adequately prepares new members of GDAS staff for the unique challenges that come with working for a substance use service.
- Lead on the delivery of the core components of the Workforce Development Programme including Safeguarding training and Case Notes Training.
- With the support of the Head of Learning and Practice plan and prepare new programmes of training and development and refine existing programmes in response to the evolving needs of the GDAS Workforce.
- Train and Supervise GDAS Keyworkers in the delivery of support and treatment to service users who are experiencing the effects of childhood trauma, ranging from routine screening for Adverse Childhood Experiences, through to evidence-based time bound interventions like EmbrACE, that are designed to improve the cognitive, social and emotional functioning of people who have experienced trauma earlier in their lives.
- Ensure GDAS workers are delivering structured psychosocial interventions for substance misuse with high fidelity through a 3 stage process of training, practice observation and constructive feedback.
- Provide support and guidance to GDAS staff outside the Learning and Practice Team who are involved in planning, preparing and delivering aspects of the GDAS Workforce Development Programme.
- Facilitate GDAS Group Supervision sessions in accordance with well-established Terms of Reference. Ensuring Group Supervision remains a space where frontline staff can have their voice heard where the agenda continues to be shaped by the needs of that group’s members whether they be oriented to practice, wellbeing or both.
- Use a range of workplace coaching and mentoring approaches to support the development of GDAS staff through thresholds for competent practice and towards excellence.
- Keep abreast of the latest developments in technologies and tools for online learning to ensure that the L and P Team continues to provide cutting edge synchronous and asynchronous E-learning.
- Engage with local and national public health initiatives as directed, including the delivery of Connect 5 mental health promotion training to the GDAS workforce. It is expected that the rollout of this training will empower GDAS staff to better support one another’s mental health, as well as the mental health of their service users.
- Support the work of Gwent Safeguarding through the delivery of safeguarding training and membership of the Gwent Safeguarding Learning and Development sub group.
- **Co-ordinate and Deliver th

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