Drug and Alcohol Worker

**NON CYC VACANCY**

**Drug and Alcohol Worker**

**Location**:7 North Park Road, Harrogate, HG1 5PD
**Working Hours**: 37 hours per week, Monday-Friday with a late night on Monday until 8pm

**About the service...**

North Yorkshire Horizons is a service made up of several key partners including Waythrough, enabling the development of a peer led, recovery community. Providing a safe environment in which people can develop the life skills, and confidence to achieve and maintain recovery and abstinence from their substance misuse, successfully re-integrate into society, and become active, contributing citizens.

**About the role...**

As directed by the Project Manager, the Recovery Coordinator will be an integral member of the dynamic multi agency team developing and delivering comprehensive and tailored individual interventions that will include delivery of a full range of structured, psychosocial and clinical support. The post calls for close co-operation with other professionals such as GP’s, practice nurses and pharmacists and will involve delivering clinics from host environments/GP practices.

Key duties of the role will include:

- Working autonomously to manage a caseload of service users, including delivering a range of psychosocial interventions.
- Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team to undertake ongoing assessments, risk assessments, and appropriate referrals within the community.
- Facilitating group sessions with a range of individuals of varying backgrounds.
- Working with partnership agencies to ensure continuity of care and support.
- Providing duty cover for individuals accessing our services.

**About you...**
- Experience of managing a caseload.
- Knowledge and/or experience of substance misuse.
- Experience supporting vulnerable people, whose lives have been affected by alcohol and/or drug use.
- A relevant qualification in Health and Social Care.
- Able to use Microsoft Office programmes efficiently.

**Who are we...**

Waythrough (Formerly Humankind) launched in October 2024 following the merger of Humankind and Richmond Fellowship. Our vision is to break down the barriers that stop people getting the support they need to live a life they value. We tackle poverty and disadvantage in communities, through mental health, drug and alcohol, housing and related support.

We have almost 200 services around England - and nearly 3,500 amazing staff and volunteers who run them. Every year our services support around 125,000 people.

Bringing together two big organisations is not a small task and it’ll take a while to fully integrate our systems, processes and approaches. That’s why you will notice the jobs here are still branded ‘Humankind’. Next year we’ll be fully integrating our recruitment systems but for now they are separate.

**What can Waythrough (Formerly Humankind) offer you...**
- Generous annual leave entitlement (27 days, plus bank holidays, increasing to 32 after 1 years’ service)
- Annual leave purchase scheme
- Enhanced occupational sick pay
- Enhanced employer contribution to your workplace pension
- Death in service benefit
- Free Will writing
- Eyecare vouchers
- Blue light card discount
- Fantastic learning and development opportunities, including free training courses
- Work-life balance
- flexible working and family friendly policies
- Happy, Healthy You - our wellbeing offers for our workforce
- Employee Assist Programme and Waythrough Support Networks

**Waythrough (Formerly Humankind) is an equal opportunities employer.**

**Closing date**: Sunday 3 November 2024 at 12 midnight

**Interview**: TBC

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