Alcohol Recovery Worker

**Sanctuary Personnel - Ref**:

- Alcohol Recovery Worker

**Location**: Redbridge

**Shift Pattern**: Monday-Friday (9AM - 5PM)

**Type of Contract**:Locum, 3-Months

**Hourly Rate**: £20 per hour (assignment rate)

**Benefits of working with us**:

- Fully online and paperless registration service
- Free DBS and compliance service including paid for mandatory e-learning and practical training modules (if applicable)
- Exclusive access to roles that aren’t available with other agencies; NHSBT, The Home Office and Vaccination Centres (private and public) are just some of the projects we’ve recently recruited to.
- £250 refer a friend bonus once referral has worked 100 hours (uncapped - T&Cs apply)
- Registration body costs covered based on length of service (T&Cs apply)
- Find your own job bonus - Receive £250 for bringing your own position to us
- Clinical governance and revalidation support from an in-house qualified health professional with over 15 years’ experience
- Your own dedicated consultant with extensive experience within the healthcare sector
- Daily payroll and in-house payroll system

**Main Duties**:

- Provide high quality, person centred, low threshold services, responding to the individual and diverse needs and preferences of our service users and their significant others
- Deliver evidence-based psychosocial one-to-one and group interventions as part of an effectively integrated care package and to take an assertive approach to service user disengagement
- Deliver harm reduction advice, guidance and education including the needle & syringe programme delivery, brief and extended recovery interventions, blood borne virus intervention, overdose prevention including naloxone programmes
- Enable service users to access education and employment services and health, wellbeing and recovery support activities and to signpost to other available services
- Support volunteers, peer mentors and service user representatives to take an active part in WDP services.
- Identify risks and take appropriate action in accordance with local, national and organisational Safeguarding policies and procedures
- Actively contribute to multi-disciplinary review meetings internally and externally
- Maintain accurate and timely records using the designated case management system in compliance with WDP Information Governance policies and procedures

**Requirements of the Alcohol Recovery Worker**:

- Recent experience within Substance Misuse, Substance Abuse, Addiction, Drug and Alcohol, Needle Exchange, or Recovery
- Criminal justice experience

**Contact**:
**Reasonable Adjustments**:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into you work placement.