Job Reference
JOB0106
Location
Kingston
Salary
£29,124 - £32,946 per annum, including London Weighting where appropriate
Vacancy Type
Permanent/Full Time
Working Hours
37.5 hours per week
Application Deadline
Sunday, January 26, 2025
Job Summary
Looking to join a supportive, friendly multidisciplinary team of clinical and non-clinical professionals and help people with drug and alcohol problems? Come and join our Well Being Service in Kingston!
The Role
This rewarding and exciting role will be key in ensuring that effective, efficient and appropriate care is planned and managed well for people and that this care achieves a positive impact to the recovery of the individual.
Based within the Via Kingston integrated Drug and Alcohol Service, your role will support adults who use our service within the area to achieve their recovery journey goals, via 1:1s and structured groupwork packages. Your responsibilities will include:
* To deliver excellent drug and alcohol services to people and their significant others, including family members, friends and carers, to facilitate positive outcomes.
* To manage a case load and coordinate and deliver assessment and evidence-based interventions (brief and structured), recovery planning and aftercare planning.
* Experience of delivering structured treatment groups.
* To work collaboratively with colleagues and key stakeholders across multi-disciplinary teams, ensuring adherence with all Via policies and Safeguarding principles.
* You will deliver harm reduction advice, psychosocial interventions, needle & syringe exchanges, Blood borne virus testing and interventions, drug testing and overdose prevention advice.
An empathetic and non-judgmental approach is imperative, as this role involves working with a wide range of challenging issues and behaviours. Good time management and team working skills are essential in this fast-paced service.
The Service
Via Kingston is a fully integrated recovery service, we offer free and confidential support for individuals affected by drug and alcohol problems and their families and carers. We believe with the right support; people can make long-lasting transformations in their lives to improve their health and wellbeing.
Location
Based at the Surbiton Health Centre, Ewell Road, Surbiton, KT6 6EZ.
To see the generous range of benefits we offer at Via including 30 days annual leave for all new starters, our health and wellbeing initiatives, financial perks and development opportunities – visit our Benefits Package.
For an informal chat about the role, or if you’d like to visit the service, please contact Darren Johns, Service Manager via Darren.John@viaorg.uk or Paul Dryland, Team Leader via Paul.Dryland@viaorg.uk.
The closing date for applications is Sunday 26 January at midnight.
We accept applications via this link using our short application form, and your CV. For guidance on how to complete the application visit this link. Please submit your application as soon as possible as we may close adverts at any time if we receive a sufficient number of applications.
Via welcomes enquiries from everyone, and we value diversity in our workplace. Our commitment to promoting diversity and developing a workplace environment where all staff are treated with dignity and respect is central to our recruitment process.
We’re a Disability Confident Employer and are committed to the employment and career development of disabled people. We offer an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for our jobs; please confirm in the personal statement part of our application form that you are applying under this scheme.
Appointment to all our posts is subject to satisfactory completion of our safeguarding checks including DBS and we follow safer recruiting principles.
Please email people@viaorg.uk if you have any recruitment enquiries or if you require this documentation in an accessible format.
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