Designated Specialist Substance Misuse Workers

6 months ago


London, United Kingdom Change Grow Live Full time

Overview:
**Join Us at Change Grow Live**

**We're Hiring: Designated Specialist Substance Misuse Worker**

Our Camden team boasts a dynamic and multidisciplinary composition, including service managers, consultant psychiatrists, doctors, nurses, healthcare assistants, recovery staff, volunteers, administrators, and peer mentors. Collectively, we are dedicated to delivering optimal support and medical interventions for individuals accessing our service

**Where**: Camden

**When**: We're looking for the right person to join the team ASAP.

**Hours**: 37.5

**Salary**: £31,529.41 - £33,708.58(CGL points 28-30)

**This is a 15 month fixed term contract.**

**Responsibilities**:
**About the Role**:
As a Designated Specialist Substance Misuse Worker, you'll be co-located in the Mental Health (MH) Core Teams in Primary Care.

Your role is pivotal in training and advising MH core teams regarding substance misuse, encouraging joint assessments, and ensuring service users with complex needs access the right intervention at the right time.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Support service users from entry into the service through their treatment and recovery journey.
- Provide screening, assessment, recovery planning, and onward referral.
- Reduce drug and alcohol-related harm to service users and the community.
- Advocate for access to partnership services and promote carer, service user, and community involvement.
- Train and advise CORE Mental Health teams in relation to substance misuse.
- Support social (re)integration, promoting recovery, resilience, peer support, and self-determination.
- Enhance partnership working with primary care, mental health services, housing, and voluntary organisations.

**About You**:

- Strong understanding of substance misuse issues with relevant field experience.
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, along with good IT skills.
- Proactive, with strong case study and report writing skills.
- Ability to work on own initiative, managing time effectively.
- Good working knowledge of mental health interventions, services, and best practices.
- Supportive team player with strong interpersonal skills.
- Ability to manage change successfully, prioritising service user needs.
- Commitment to information governance processes.

**What we will give to you**:

- 25 days holiday (+ bank holidays) rising by 1 day for each years’ service “Capped at 30 days”
- Paid ‘Wellness’ hour each week along with a ‘Wellness’ hub and Employee Assist Programme
- Contributory pension scheme
- A great selection of benefits incl. discounts for shopping, cinema, holidays, etc.
- A friendly and supportive team
- Training, career development & progression opportunities

If you're ready to embark on a fulfilling journey with Change Grow Live, we'd love to talk to you

Kindly examine the enclosed job description and tailor your personal statement to align with its specifications.
- **We look forward to hearing from you.



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