Harm Reduction Recovery Worker - SDAS (Taunton)
Job Introduction
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Do you want to help build a brighter future for communities and individuals in Taunton doing a highly rewarding job? Turning Point’s drug & alcohol services are currently expanding during a really exciting time in the sector with new funding and investment. We have a range of roles for people passionate about supporting others to make change.
We have roles in different teams including:
* Community based treatment services: providing assessment, coordinating treatment and working in partnership to support individuals. The roles include delivering structured psycho-social interventions in group and one-to-one settings to enable our service users to acquire thinking skills and behaviours to make lasting change.
* Homeless outreach provision: Targeting homeless individuals, offering a flexible and outreach response to highly vulnerable individuals sleeping rough or living in temporary accommodation.
* Criminal Justice rehabilitation/recovery services: working closely with the Probation Services, Prisons and Police to provide a rapid, tailored response to individuals that support their recovery and rehabilitation.
As a Harm Reduction Recovery Worker, we offer a starting salary of £25,116 rising each year in line with our pay progression salary bands, rising to £29,383 per year. (Dependent on experience, you may be offered a starting salary above the initial starting salary).
You will have opportunities to progress your career with a structured learning journey and clearly defined career pathways that will enable you to achieve your long-term goals and work to your strengths.
Whether you are looking to progress into a management and leadership role or to be a specialist in your field as an Advanced Substance Use Practitioner, at Turning Point we will support and encourage you on your career journey.
Role Responsibility
As a Harm Reduction Recovery Worker, you will be working in a variety of settings as part of a multi-disciplinary team. You will manage a small caseload of service users who are complex and hard to engage, so you will need exceptional communication skills and the ability to be flexible in your approaches to working.
You will spend time seeking out service users across the county, providing treatment and support in locations that facilitate their engagement, and working to help people engage in treatment effectively. We are passionate about taking our service to those who need it most, so the Engagement and Harm Reduction role is crucial to making this happen.
You will be responsible for delivering a range of evidence-based interventions to reduce drug-related harms, including needle and syringe provision, safer injecting information, and support and advice around blood-borne virus prevention and treatment.
At a practical level, you'll need good IT and communication skills.
This would be a front-line role providing support to people around their use of drugs and alcohol.
The Ideal Candidate
You’ll have an understanding of substance and alcohol use and the challenges and opportunities for individuals on a recovery journey. However, we also recognise that many people have transferable skills from other backgrounds such as mental health, housing, or other health and social care provision. The roles are varied, so flexibility, an ability to work dynamically on a one-to-one and group basis, and knowledge of relapse and other barriers to recovery will be vital, but we can help to shape these skills where needed. We also look for candidates with excellent communication skills who share our values as an organisation. We value individuals with lived experience but also those who are just interested in this line of work; our Trainee Recovery Worker program enables individuals without all relevant experience to gain an entry-level position within the organisation before moving on to other roles.
We value individual creativity and initiative, and whatever your role, you will be fully involved in identifying opportunities to improve the quality of our services and the service user experience. Your ideas will be listened to, and your suggestions implemented wherever possible. You will be supported in your role by extensive training to help develop your skills. Our learning culture encourages everyone to stay on top of the latest developments in their field and helps drive service improvement.
About us
As a leading health and social care provider with more than 300 locations across England, we take real pride in the services we offer.
We run all of our services on a not-for-profit basis; instead, we invest every penny back into our services and people. We never stop believing in change for the better, and we work constantly to improve the lives of the people we support.
What Benefits Will I Receive?
We know reward looks different to each person, and so whether it's ways to make your money go further, a culture supporting recognition and celebration, or opportunities to boost your career – we want to support you in every way we can with our total reward package that includes:
* 25 days’ paid holiday a year + Bank Holidays, increasing with each year of service up to 27 days + Bank Holidays. Plus the option to buy additional holidays and spread the cost.
* Join our team and discover the comprehensive benefits we offer by following this link to explore all the exciting perks available to our employees Turning Point Benefits.
We reserve the right to close this advert early if we are able to appoint to the vacancy before the advertised closed date.
Salary: Starting salary £25,116 with annual pay progression up to £29,383.
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