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Harm Reduction Outreach Worker

3 months ago

Durham, United Kingdom Humankind Charity Full time

**Vacancy No**
- VN4143

**Employment Type**
- Full-Time

**Hours Per Week**
- 37.00

**Work Pattern**
- Monday to Friday

**Location**
- County Durham

**Location Region**
- County Durham

**Location City**

**Location Postal Code**
- DH1

**Interview Date**
- 24 Jun 2024

**Job Details**

**About The Role**
Harm reduction outreach worker. This post offers a fantastic opportunity to join a dynamic outreach team covering County Durham.
- To deliver services to those affected by substance use to support and reduce the harm caused by their substance use. This includes individuals who have not accessed treatment and those who have repeatedly not attended appointments with alcohol and drug treatment providers, and have complex and multiple needs.
- To support the people who use our needle exchanges across the County. To encourage the participation of wider stakeholders so that Harm Reduction is important to everyone, including pharmacies, community drop ins, housing and criminal justice teams.
- Widening the offer of harm reduction including needle exchange, BBV screening and increasing the provision of naloxone in County Durham and ensuring that every contact counts.
- **Duties can include**:

- Develop and deliver quality psychosocial interventions that meet local need across both group work and one to one formats.
- Support delivery of key service functions through actively participating in duty worker, needle exchange and access to testing and immunisation service provision.
- Promote visible recovery across the service and ensure peer support opportunities are relevant and accessible for all service users.
- Carry out drug screening and testing when required.

**To view the full job description and person specification for this role, please click here.**

‘The salary advertised above demonstrates the full earning potential for this role, starting salaries will allow for pay progression within the pay band’

**Who are we**
Humankind is one of England’s most successful home-grown charities. We provide free, confidential support for alcohol, drugs, housing, or mental health in friendly local places across the UK. We are committed to fair chances for all and making sure everyone can access the help and support they need to realise their potential. By joining our teams of passionate individuals, you will be contributing to making this happen. You can really make a difference by believing in our service users and their ability to make positive changes when they don’t always believe in themselves.

We are incredibly proud of the work that we do to help address health inequalities in England. Every five minutes, an individual accesses one of our services, and we have supported over 90,000 people across all our services last year. Check out our impact report here to read more about the important work that we have done.

**What can Humankind offer you**

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Generous annual leave entitlement (27 days, plus bank holidays, increasing to 32 after 1 years’ service)

Annual leave purchase scheme

Enhanced occupational sick pay

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Enhanced employer contribution to your workplace pension

Death in service benefit

Free Will writing

Eyecare vouchers

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Blue light card discount

Fantastic learning and development opportunities, including free training courses

Work-life balance
- flexible working and family friendly policies

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Happy, Healthy You - our wellbeing offers for our workforce

Employee Assist Programme and Humankind Support Networks

**Humankind is an equal opportunities employer**

**Salary Period**

**Vacancy Salary Range**
- £24,020 - £30,790

**DBS Requirement**
- Enhanced Adult/Child Barred

**Does role require Police/Prison vetting?**
- Not Applicable

**Driving licence required for role?**
- Yes

**Applications Close Date**
- 16 Jun 2024