Drug and Alcohol Worker

2 months ago


Greater London, United Kingdom Supported Living Services Ltd Full time

SLS is a Supported Housing provider in East London supporting people with complex mental health resume life in the community.

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Drug and Alcohol worker to join our team. Working as part of our close-knit team, you will provide support to our residents across multiple locations recover from substance misuse and live drug and alcohol free lifestyle. You will also support the schemes to run activities to support residents engagement in the schemes.

No two days are the same and we treat every person who comes into our service as an individual, so being flexible, curious and a good listener are key.

You’ll have to record information about what you do, so recoding digitally and attention to detail is important. But most of the time you’ll be enjoying working with people from all backgrounds, making a difference to their lives.

Your responsibilities will include:

- Undertake group and 1-1 interventions with clients of a specialist nature.
- Link working between drug agencies and substance services.
- Completing monthly training for the staff team.
- SMART goal planning to provide needs led holistic support.
- Carrying out assessments to identify and prioritise needs.
- Create an environment that promotes opportunities for customers to develop, learn and enable skills towards independence.
- Provide support to customers through a key-worker system
- A relevant professional qualification in the area of expertise (i.e. Drug and alcohol, counselling,
- psychology, OT, nursing or social work or any other relevant qualifications).
- Experience providing 1-1 drug and alcohol support to customers.
- Knowledge and experience of using specialist assessment tools, methods and case formulation.
- Knowledge of evidence based specialist interventions.
- Experience of undertaking customer assessments, support planning and key-working with a clear outcome focus.
- Knowledge about recovery model, peer support and coproduction procedures.
- Experience working in community settings therapeutically, including assessments, designing interventions and demonstrating outcomes.
- Experience running therapeutic groups.
- Must have hands on working experience of providing therapy lead services with a similar client group

**Job Types**: Full-time, Contract
Contract length: 12 months

**Salary**: £24,000.00-£26,000.00 per year

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Day shift

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: RecoveryWorkerJune2020



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