Cavdas Family

**Family and Concerned Other Worker**

**Reports to**: Team Leader / Alliance Manager
**Locations available**:

- 7 St Andrew's Pl, Cardiff CF10 3BE

Outreach, and home visits / co-location with other social care partners will be expected.
- 2-10 Holton Rd, Barry CF63 4HD
- 218 Cowbridge Rd E, Cardiff CF5 1GX
- 232 Holton Rd, Barry CF63 4HS
- 94 Neville St, Cardiff CF11 6LS

Outreach, and home visits / co-location with other social care partners will be expected.

**Hours**:37.5 hours per week
**Contract Type**: Permanent
**Salary**: £24,205 - £26,265 per annum

**Background to Service**:
Cardiff and Vale Drug and Alcohol Service (CAVDAS) is an Alliance of Barod, Recovery Cymru and Kaleidoscope Project with strategic partners G4S and Pobl. CAVDAS Alliance has been commissioned by the Cardiff and Vale Substance Misuse Area Planning board.

CAVDAS services will deliver specialist support and interventions across Youth Justice Services, Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) Cardiff Council Housing Services, Counselling, Recovery and Aftercare, Volunteering and Service User Involvement, Rapid Access Prescribing (RAPS), structured interventions, peer support and mutual aid, Harm Reduction and Work Force Development. CAVDAS will deliver an integrated young person’s, adults and family and carer information, advice, interventions, and support service. CAVDAS will work across Cardiff and Vale Health and Social Care partners, and forums to co-produce services delivering outcomes in the way that people want. We are looking to build a new culture providing one system for Cardiff and Vale and a unified, innovative, and flexible delivery model.

**Purpose of the role**:
The role will provide a dedicated lead for family and concerned other contacts throughout Cardiff and Vale. Their aim is to reduce the impact of drug and alcohol use on families, carers and significant others by working with individuals and supporting units improve or secure their physical and psychological health, family and relationships, financial situation, employment and social life. They will facilitate harm reduction, brief advice, information, and system guidance for those seeking support around the impact of substance use in their life. The post holder will enable specialist leadership across the CAVDAS service contributing to learning and development and wider outcomes frameworks. They will ensure group delivery and time limited 1:1 sessions are available actively supporting engagement in dedicated services and advocacy as require.

The successful applicant will deliver services in line with Welsh Government Treatment Frameworks, NICE guidance (National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence), and other relevant professional standards and legislation. CAVDAS staff are expected to follow Operational Policies and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), ensuring that the care and treatment provided is safe, undertaken to a high standard and informed by up-to
- date, evidence-based practice.

The post holder should enjoy face-to-face contact with people who have recognised that their use of substances has become problematic. They will have excellent communication skills, be able to work as part of a multidisciplinary team, across agency cultures including those within statutory, private, and voluntary sector partnerships. The post holder must be flexible and efficient within small locality teams, to ensure services are delivered equitably and with the service user at the heart of delivery.

They will have a non-judgmental approach to people who have recognised that their use has become problematic and be able to provide a welcoming and accessible service to existing and potential service users.

**Key Duties and Responsibilities**
- To complete assessments including risk assessment and risk management planning.
- To provide crisis interventions and advice CAVDAS staff on appropriate information and advice.
- To provide brief interventions that consist of short-term focused work to address immediate problems.
- Provide a skills-based group structured intervention programme to concerned others wishing to influence another’s consumption of drugs/alcohol as well as improve their own quality of life.
- To provide concerned others with a forum to seek support, encouragement and learning opportunities from each other.
- Promote healthier lives, wellbeing, and active citizenship.
- Promote and encourage service user participation in local, regional, and national family and carer events.
- Produce information for publications, leaflets, and web pages.
- Advocate on a service user’s behalf, for example, by writing letters, making phone calls or attending meetings.
- Write reports and compiling statistics.
- Provide training or talks to internal staff or external organisations.
- Promote self-help guidance and digital inclusion provision.
- Develop and nurture a team of peer support volunteers and other volunteers involved in the support of families and ca