P2R Community substance misuse service in Bedford hub have a fixed term 12 month contract to cover Maternity leave and secondment
Delivering substance misuse interventions in one-to-one and group settings to service users, assessing and managing their care and risk.
Working in one of the following teams within P2R:
• Assessment Team
• Recovery Team
• Short Treatment Team
• Friends and Families Team
• Safeguarding Team
• Homeless Team
1. Manage a caseload of service users, ensuring effective care planning and risk assessment (This includes short and long term work and will be scaled down based on complexity)
2. Deliver one-to-one and group interventions for substance misuse in line with agreed job plan
3. Assess service users, identifying strengths and recovery capital and deliver interventions which support and empower the service user to make changes to their substance use
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
• To manage a caseload of 35-70 service users, depending on complexity and other responsibilities
• To carry out drug and alcohol misuse assessment including assessment of personal strengths and recovery capital, and risks.
• To develop recovery plans using a person centred approach to develop, implement and evaluate needs and strengths based care plans and risk management plans in partnership with service users, carers and other professionals.
• To offer health promotion and deliver harm reduction interventions, including needle exchange and access to physical health care including BBV and health screening
• To provide IBA, extended IBA, one-to-one and group interventions
This advert closes on Monday 31 Mar 2025