Senior Relief Worker

6 months ago

Edinburgh, United Kingdom Turning Point Scotland Full time

Job Description

**Service: North East Edinburgh Recovery Service**

**Based: Edinburgh - Based at the Leith Hub with offices in Craigmillar, and required to perform home visits/outreach across the city**

**Salary: £11.96 per hour**

**Could you help us save lives?**

Do you understand alcohol and other drugs related harm and experience of working with vulnerable people?

If this is you, we have an exciting opportunity in **North East Edinburgh** for an experienced **Lead Practitioner** in the field of Alcohol and Other Drugs. This full time role has the flexibility to work Monday to Friday with the occasional evenings.

**About You**

As our Lead Practitioner, you will be working within the service delivery times of Monday to Friday. Working with the Service Manager and the Service Coordinator to direct and manage the day to day operations within the Edinburgh Service by delivering an advanced level of social care support including taking responsibility for service delivery and development which includes providing line management support to the staff team.

Join us as our experienced **Lead** **Practitioner **where you will be offering harm reduction advice and interventions to some of the most vulnerable and high-risk people who use drugs. These individuals may have had multiple non-fatal overdoses and are not currently engaged with treatment and or support services.

You will be passionate and committed and be creative in ways of engaging people, including home visits (alongside a colleague) offering support in the community. Making a difference to people’s lives, you will continue providing support until they are able to engage in more structured support within the hub.

Turning Point Scotland offers a Salary Matching opportunity.

**North East Edinburgh Recovery Hub**

The North East Recovery Hub offers a full range of drug and alcohol treatment and support services. We are a multi - disciplinary team comprising of Voluntary Sector, NHS and social work staff. We are based with our main office in Leith and working across our satellite location in Craigmillar.

**Leith & Craigmillar**

You will be making assessments of people who drop in and carrying out assessments as a key worker and making referrals and managing your own case load. Based in Leith but also covering the satellite location in Craigmillar at the East Neighbourhood Centre.

We understand that everybody’s experience is different. When people come to our North East Edinburgh Recovery Service, we personalise their care to achieve their goals.

As our Lead Practitioner, you will have knowledge and experience of drug and alcohol related harm and treatment options. You will be responsible for being first point of contact carrying out initial assessment building trusting relationships and ongoing keyworker support with communication an essential part of the role. You will also be expected to provide Assertive Outreach to individual’s homes, GP practices and across multiple community settings in the North East of Edinburgh.

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 operates a List of Approved Relief Workers who may be contacted by services when there is a need to engage additional workers in order to provide the required support to someone who uses our services. Relief Workers are primarily deployed to cover periods of leave, or sickness absence and to provide additional support during periods of peak activity etc

When there is suitable work available within a service, a manager will contact Relief Workers offer them a shift/series of shifts. As a Relief Worker you will be well-placed to fit your work around your existing work or other commitments and you will be under no pressure or obligation to accept work from us if it does not suit you to do so. Once work is offered and accepted by you however, there is an expectation that you will make every effort to attend to undertake that shift. Your reliability in this regard is very important to our services and to the people we support who will be expecting you.

Relief Workers submit a Time Sheet to claim payment for the hours they have worked and are paid on a monthly basis. You will accrue some entitlement to paid holidays and you will be reimbursed for all reasonable expenses incurred in the course of your work for us.

You will be required to undertake a programme of basic training which is primarily designed to enable you to operate safely, but also to meet the organisation’s obligations to you in terms of health & safety legislation.

Relief Working at Turning Point Scotland will not normally be suitable for people who have full-time posts with other agencies.
- 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 ski

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