Outreach Practitioner

**Location**

Camden and Islington

**Salary**

£24,440 - £28,262 plus £2,184 London Weighting Allowance

**Vacancy Type**

Permanent/Full Time

**Working Hours**

37.5 hours per week

**Application Deadline**

Monday, February 27, 2023

**Job Summary**

**Would you like to help improve the health and wellbeing of those with drug and alcohol issues?**

**The Service**

Our Rough Sleepers Projects offers Intensive Recovery Outreach And Dedicated Support to Rough Sleepers in Camden & Islington. The project provides coordinated and wrap around care to rough sleepers/street active individuals with substance misuse issues.

**(Camden/Islington)**:

- This is a great opportunity to be involved with the delivery of a brand-new service and finding the most effective and creative ways to engage with service users with multiple and often complex needs. You will work as part of a dedicated multi-disciplinary outreach team to offer person centred support, and engagement into treatment._

**The role**

We are looking for an individual who is self-motivated, caring, person centred and passionate about supporting people with multiple needs to join our INROADS team. Essential to this role is the drive to support individuals to navigate often complex systems to get the support they need for substance misuse and their mental health condition.

This exciting and rewarding role will provide you with significant scope for growth and innovation within a supportive and friendly multidisciplinary team of clinical and non-clinical professionals.

The main purpose of this role is to provide assertive outreach in order to engage or re-engage with rough sleepers/street active individuals into treatment.
- Conduct street outreach to engage/reengage homeless individuals misusing substances.
- Deliver street-based interventions.
- Engage and build relationships with individuals who are rough sleepers/street active.
- Street-based needs assessments/harm reduction advice - including Naloxone distribution.
- Develop robust pathways between existing homeless and outreach service/housing services.
- Support access/re-engagement with local treatment provider.
- Support Opiate users with rapid prescribing access with use of virtual prescribing clinics.
- Manage a case load of service users with complex needs including substance misuse. Working with partner agencies to support them to become stable and ready to engage with local treatment providers.
- Work in collaboration with housing teams, local authority, and other treatment agencies to minimise the prevalence of street drinking and anti-social behaviour by supporting people into treatment.

To see the generous range of benefits we offer at WDP - including health and wellbeing initiatives, financial perks, and development opportunities - visit our Benefits Package.

For an informal discussion about the position please contact

**Monday 27 February 2023 at midnight.**

WDP welcomes enquiries from everyone, and we value diversity in our workplace. Our commitment to promoting diversity and developing a workplace environment where all staff are treated with dignity and respect is central to our recruitment process.