Lead Practitioner

Job Description

**Service: North East Edinburgh Recovery Service (NEERS)**

**Based: Edinburgh - Based at the Leith Hub and required to perform home visits/outreach across the city**

**Hours: Full-Time 37hrs**

**Salary: £22,649 - £25,394 (£11.77 - £13.20 per hour)**

**Contract: Permanent**

**Could you help us save lives?**

**About the Role**

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Assertive Outreach Lead Practitioner in the field of Alcohol and Other Drugs.

As our Lead Practitioner in Assertive Outreach, 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.

**About You**

You will be passionate and committed and be creative in ways of engaging people, including home visits 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.

You will have a genuine commitment and experience as a Lead Practitioner working with people in the Health and Social Care sector, Alcohol and other Drugs. Flexibility to work Monday to Friday with the occasional evenings and have a valid driving licence with access to a car, is advantageous but not essential.

Applicants with a background in delivery of psychosocial support, Assertive Outreach models in harm reduction, Housing First & housing support practices, as well as those with lived experience, would be advantageous.

Turning Point Scotland offers a Salary Matching opportunity.

**North East Edinburgh Recovery Hub**

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

We understand that everybody’s experience is different. When people come to the Hub, we personalise their care to achieve their goals.

The support we provide is always person centred, we do this by involving people who know the person well, this includes family and friends, other health and Social Work professionals, Advocacy services and our own staff members.

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 have
**Platinum accreditation** in
**Investors in People**. Our staff are our most important asset, therefore we offer extensive training and impressive personal and career-focused development opportunities. You could be part of an organisation that not only offers excellent careers but makes a real difference to thousands of People’s lives and achieve your own personal fulfilment.
- Comprehensive Induction
- 123 Learning and development courses
- 29 eLearning courses
- Funded qualification - SVQ Social Services and Healthcare, work based assessment
- Your Career Pathway, we promote from within and advertise internally all jobs
- Pension Scheme, employer contribution 4%
- Wide range of family friendly policies
- 35 holiday/public holidays days' per year.
- 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 skills?
No
- Will the service users be involved in this process?
No
- Contact name & details

If you would like to chat about any aspect of the role, please call us at the NE Recovery Hub on 0131 554 7516 (option 2 for TPS) and ask to speak to the Duty Manager.