Substance Misuse Outreach Practitioner

4 weeks ago


Woking, Surrey, United Kingdom Via Westminster Drug Project Full time

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced outreach worker to join our team as an Assertive Outreach Practitioner. This role will involve working across Surrey, providing proactive support to individuals who use our service to access and engage in structured treatment interventions, as well as delivering lifesaving harm reduction interventions.

The Role

As an Assertive Outreach Practitioner, you will be responsible for engaging with vulnerable individuals who are not currently accessing treatment but who may be living a chaotic life with complex drug and/or alcohol needs. You will work closely with a broad range of services to provide wrap-around risk management focussed care, and will require dynamic partnership working to engage individuals who may be treatment resistant or re-engage those that have had unsuccessful episodes of treatment in the past.

Key Responsibilities

  • Work closely with partners from neighbourhood policing teams, probation, housing, community safety teams and a range of other health and social care agencies to engage and re-engage service users into drug and alcohol treatment.
  • Provide outreach with a focus on engagement and harm reduction, including overdose prevention across Surrey, working with the wider i-access team to ensure seamless access to treatment interventions.
  • Assist service users to access treatment services and to make sustained changes to improve their lives.

Requirements

We are looking for a committed, dynamic and highly motivated individual with an in-depth knowledge and experience of the challenges affecting people with substance misuse and related health and wellbeing issues. You will have a full driver's licence and access to a vehicle, and will be required to work peripatetically across Surrey.

About the Service

i-access is an integrated service delivered in partnership by Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Trust (SABP) and Via, commissioned to provide substance misuse treatment for people aged 18 and onwards in Surrey. This service is an established community Integrated service that is well performing and highly functioning, and consists of both clinical and psychosocial interventions.



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