Lead Practitioner

4 months ago

South Lanarkshire, United Kingdom Turning Point Scotland Full time

Job Description

**Service: South Lanarkshire Alcohol & Other Drugs Reachout Service**

**Based: Cambuslang**

**Hours: Full Time, 37 Hours per Week**

**Salary: £23,023 - £25,813 (£11.97 - £13.42 per hour)**

**Contract Permanent**

**Could you change a life in Cambuslang?**

Turning Point Scotland’s Alcohol & Other Drugs Reachout service are offering the opportunity to work within the existing team to provide rapid response to crisis and near fatal overdose.

Rapid Response staff will operate from 9am to 9pm (7 days per week) on a rolling two-week work pattern (4 days week 1- and 3-days week 2) which will allow for each team to work every second weekend to ensure an ‘out of hours’ engagement is available alongside links to and engagement with mainstream services. Turning Point Scotland actively encourage an excellent work life balance. As this role involves evening and weekend work, we will ensure that you are given your rota in advance to allow you to plan around your personal commitments. It would be preferred if you had a full clean driving licence and access to a vehicle.

We provide an immediate response to people in crisis and people that have experienced a near fatal overdose within South Lanarkshire providing a short, focused period of support to each person and assertively engaging them with mainstream services such as alcohol and other drug services, community mental health and other partner organisations.

This is a **Lead Practitioner** opportunity for you to join our existing team to work with individuals who have a wide range of support needs, providing them with practical and emotional support and encouraging them to achieve their own personal outcomes in all aspects of their daily lives e.g. keeping safe, meaningful activities, community involvement, physical health, relationships, emotional health and wellbeing.

This exciting new team endeavours to provide advocacy and emotional and immediate support at time of crisis. Referring and sign posting to relevant services. Discussions surrounding tenancy sustainment, harm reduction advice, information and provision (IEP, Naloxone, alcohol intake) generally keeping people in a safe place until they can engage with or be referred into appropriate services.

**The key aims and objectives**:

- Rapid response to people in crisis and/or has experienced a near fatal overdose primarily during out of hours /7 days per week.
- Rapid response to crisis and/ or near fatal overdoses providing harm reduction interventions and advice.
- Short, focused period of support maintaining contact through assertive outreach.
- Improved access, engagement and assertive linkage to healthcare and support services.
- Reducing drug and alcohol related deaths within South Lanarkshire

At the South Lanarkshire Alcohol and Other Drugs REACHOUT service the support we provide is always person centred, we do this by involving people who know the person well, this includes family and friends, other health and Social Work professionals, Advocacy services and our own staff members.

Full details of this role can be viewed on the attached Job Role Profile. Click here

Please note that IT skills are required for all our vacancies.
- Benefits package
Turning Point Scotland have
**Platinum accreditation** in
**Investors in People**. Our staff are our most important asset, therefore we offer extensive training and impressive personal and career-focused development opportunities. You could be part of an organisation that not only offers excellent careers but makes a real difference to thousands of People’s lives and achieve your own personal fulfilment.
- Comprehensive Induction
- 123 Learning and development courses
- 29 eLearning courses
- Funded qualification - SVQ Social Services and Healthcare, work based assessment
- Your Career Pathway, we promote from within and advertise internally all jobs
- Pension Scheme, employer contribution 4%
- Wide range of family friendly policies
- 35 holiday/public holidays days' per year.
- Does this position require a valid UK driving licence and access to a vehicle?
No
- Does the post include personal care?
No
- Does the post include cooking and housekeeping skills?
No
- Will the service users be involved in this process?
No
- Contact name & details
If you would like to chat about any aspect of the role, please call our Recruitment & Engagement Team on 0808 1643100.

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