Culturally Specific Senior Substance Use

6 months ago


Nottingham, United Kingdom Al-Hurraya Full time

**Our Mission**

Empowering ethnically diverse communities to reduce harm and to capitalise on personal growth.

**Nottingham Recovery Network**

Nottingham Recovery Network aims to deliver a fully-integrated, high quality drug and alcohol treatment and recovery support system that is locally owned and personally valued, with service user and carer involvement embedded in all aspects of its practice. Nottingham Recovery Network comprises of Framework Housing Association (Lead Agency), Double Impact and Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.

The service focuses on a three phase service delivery model comprising of:

- Recovery Orientation (Engagement)
- Recovery Delivery Interventions (Including psychosocial and pharmacological treatment interventions)
- Re-integration (Recovery including the Double Impact Academy)

This is underpinned by the four cornerstones of:

- Peer-led Mutual Aid
- Mentoring and Volunteering
- Service User Involvement
- External Mutual Aid

**Our Values**

The work we do with individuals and communities is driven by our belief and commitment to respecting what makes us individual and celebrates that which brings us together in peace and unity.

**Purpose of Job**

The post holder will be an integral member of Nottingham Recovery Network, ensuring effective joint working across all areas enabling service users to move through the system and progress out of treatment and reintegrate as quickly as possible.

The post holder will provide high quality evidenced based alcohol treatment to adults with alcohol dependency (in line with national guidance) and complex needs in the service users home or local community. This will be achieved through assessment, screening, recovery planning (SMART), case management, risk assessing and the delivery of wide-ranging treatment. This will include the implementation and review as defined by Models of Care 2002/2006, NICE guidelines quality standards for drug use disorders 2012 (51 & 115) and public health guidance 24.

The post holder will have responsibility for providing support and guidance to substance misuse workers.

The post holder will proactively maintain contact with service users striving for positive outcomes for all to achieve the individuals recover goal.

The post holder will be expected to travel by utilising their own car or public transport to see service users that require an assertive outreach intervention.

**Scope of Job**

To work in partnership with the wider Nottingham Recovery Network and integral to the Recovery Case Management Alcohol Team to case manage complex cases and support individuals with substance misuse problems (primarily alcohol) through the recovery system.

To carry a caseload of service users with substance misuse problems (whose primary substance use is alcohol) and other multiple needs associated with this.

The post is required to be competent and autonomous in implementing and evaluating treatment plans for complex cases and will have the experience and knowledge to competently advise more junior members of the team.

To be part of the implementation of the new service and its development.

**Qualifications**
- At least a Level 3 Diploma in Health & Social Care
- Degree level knowledge in Health/Social Care or other relevant applicable field (desirable)
- Professional Training/Qualifications in another relevant area e.g. counselling, psychotherapy etc (desirable)

**Key Responsibilities**:

- To carry out assessments for clients referred to Nottingham Recovery Network with whose primary problem is alcohol dependency as well as physical and mental health comorbidities.
- To provide support and guidance to more junior members of the team.
- To carry a caseload with responsibility for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating care programmes and create an individually tailored plan of care; to encourage the development of working towards the achievement of agreed goals.
- To complete a full risk assessment of need including risk to self and others and adult/child safeguarding identification and risk management.
- To link service users to appropriate internal and external services and other areas of the Nottingham Recovery Network.
- To provide support to satellite clinics.
- To proactively maintain contact with service users instilling belief of ‘Recovery’.
- To ensure that appropriate Mentor or Peer Mentor support is in place to support the service user on their journey to recovery.
- To assist service users to access learning, training, work and development opportunities where appropriate.
- To utilise skills and knowledge to facilitate therapeutic one to one psychosocial based interventions and learning opportunities alongside other members of the team.
- To utilise motivational interviewing and CBT techniques promote engagement in treatment, encourage self-esteem, well-being, self-responsibility and enhanced motivation.
- To promote healthier lifestyles and increase service user choic



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