Woodrow Mercer Healthcare | Community Support Worker

2 days ago


south east england, United Kingdom Woodrow Mercer Healthcare Full time

Role: Support Worker (Community connector - Engagement team)

Location: Aylesbury

Salary: £23,088

Full Time, 37hours Per Week.

Summary

Support Workers (Community Connector – Engagement Team) will provide advice, support, advocacy, key work for recovery plans and undertake elements of assessment and case management as directed.

Support Workers (Community Connector – Engagement Team) are expected to work not only from Aquarius offices but also in primary care, arrest referral, hospital and youth settings and other outreach settings as required by the service specification.

Duties & Responsibilities:

Working in a way that recognises and values diversity, understands the functional model of substance misuse, the Recovery Agenda and problems caused by alcohol and drug misuse, support worker will:

  • To work within the ORB Engagement Team completing ORB psychosocial assessments with service users to determine the appropriate treatment psychosocial treatment pathway.
  • To support in the delivery groups to service users.
  • To provide a needle exchange service.
  • To ensure effective brief interventions are facilitated by staff and Recovery Supporter Volunteers.
  • To signpost to local services and empower service users to build their community networks and recovery capital.
  • To promote visible and contagious recovery in the hub.
  • To work collaboratively with all service users/partner agencies/stakeholders to identify the barriers that prevent people from all communities accessing a full range of services, including substance misuse mental health wellbeing and primary mental health services.
  • To create and maintain a local Recovery Assets Register.
  • To provide effective supervision to Recovery Supporter Volunteers in the hub and ensure their development needs are met.
  • Ensure all clients have scheduled appointments according to their needs and discern when issues are/are not an emergency which requires immediate action.

Terms and Conditions

There is a demand to provide a flexible service to meet client need and therefore there will be an expectation to work evenings and weekends as required by the service. The exact pattern of work will be determined by service need and may be subject to change.

Holiday entitlement is 32 days plus 8 Bank Holidays.

The salary for this post is £22,010 per annum (pay award pending) with the possibly of progression, subject to the post-holder meeting the eligibility and performance criteria.

A pension scheme is available.

All Aquarius staff are employed on an initial probationary period of 6 months. During this period, notice of termination by either party will be one month.

An enhanced DBS check will be required for this post.

Interested in hearing more? Apply now.



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