Job summary
What you'll be doing.
You will be part of the Alcohol Team working in the hospital, our offices and the local community, carrying out assessments and initiating treatment for dependent alcohol users.
Liaising with Partner Agencies and the wider community services. Supporting clients to access physical, mental health and housing provisions along with referrals to recovery options and community activities.
Main duties of the job
- Engage with, assess, and provide harm reduction and brief
interventions to hospital patients.
- Attend multi-disciplinary repeat attender meetings
representing Delphi.
- Book follow up appointments for all clients on hospital
discharge and ensuring they are supported through the process.
- Collate statistics around referrals, in-reach sessions and repeat
attendees.
- Link with hospital teams to ensure joint planning for
hospital discharge.
- Work in a large, busy, cross site, multi-disciplinary
service.
- Care planning of a clients recovery journey which is person
centred and puts the patient or service user at the focus of all decision
making.
- Delivery of awareness sessions linked to substance misuse.
- Planned continued detox where relevant.
- Joint multidisciplinary collaboration with all stakeholders.
- Delivery of KPIs in line with contract agreement to help
evidence our service delivery.
- Effectively deliver interventions to patients and service
users.
- Supporting colleagues and managers with new initiatives and
service offers and any reasonable requested activity.
About us
Delphi Medical is a values led, innovative and specialist addiction (drug and alcohol) company, inspiring their clients to progress safely and successfully from dependance to freedom.
They have a shared purpose as part of the Calico Group to make a real difference to peoples lives. Each part of the CalicoGroup has its own specialism and expertise but the One Calico vision is to help people to build a better future, whatever their background and wherever they are in their lifes journey.
Because we know we can always do more for our customers, we are continually expanding the range of services which we offer. This means we need more amazing people who share our values and have real passion for helping others.
Job description
Job responsibilities
How this role will deliver success
- Patients will be engaged with and assessed in the hospital and will be offered brief interventions and harm reduction awareness.
- Patients from the hospital will be supported upon discharge with the transition into community services.
- Link with hospital care teams specifically - alcohol and mental health.
- Attend the multi-disciplinary repeat attender meetings and help to reduce repeat attendees to hospital and A and E.
- Offer a supportive approach in hospital and a named link to support active engagement and an appointment on discharge.
- Client referrals and caseloads will be managed effectively ensuring clients needs are considered and supported appropriately with robust plans in place to evidence the support.
- The in-reach worker will link with the hospital teams to contribute to hospital discharge pathways and update on engagement.
- Clients will be engaged with the service throughout their care responding positively to interventions and exiting our service with improved health and wellbeing.
- Clients will be supported and encouraged to build their personal strengths and social networks as part of their development to achieve identified goals.
- New ideas will be offered to improve and strengthen our service offer so that we are able to provide the very best support to our clients.
- Contract targets will consistently be met or exceeded to ensure we are in the best possible position to retain the contract and win new work, enabling us to provide outstanding services to current and new clients.
- Services and support will be delivered safely and effectively in line with all current regulatory requirements and internal policies and procedures.
- Continued personal development in the role to increase the service offer and own skill set.
Job description
Job responsibilities
How this role will deliver success
- Patients will be engaged with and assessed in the hospital and will be offered brief interventions and harm reduction awareness.
- Patients from the hospital will be supported upon discharge with the transition into community services.
- Link with hospital care teams specifically - alcohol and mental health.
- Attend the multi-disciplinary repeat attender meetings and help to reduce repeat attendees to hospital and A and E.
- Offer a supportive approach in hospital and a named link to support active engagement and an appointment on discharge.
- Client referrals and caseloads will be managed effectively ensuring clients needs are considered and supported appropriately with robust plans in place to evidence the support.
- The in-reach worker will link with the hospital teams to contribute to hospital discharge pathways and update on engagement.
- Clients will be engaged with the service throughout their care responding positively to interventions and exiting our service with improved health and wellbeing.
- Clients will be supported and encouraged to build their personal strengths and social networks as part of their development to achieve identified goals.
- New ideas will be offered to improve and strengthen our service offer so that we are able to provide the very best support to our clients.
- Contract targets will consistently be met or exceeded to ensure we are in the best possible position to retain the contract and win new work, enabling us to provide outstanding services to current and new clients.
- Services and support will be delivered safely and effectively in line with all current regulatory requirements and internal policies and procedures.
- Continued personal development in the role to increase the service offer and own skill set.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- -An awareness of alcohol issues.
- -Experience of working in a multidisciplinary service linked to substance use, social or medical services.
- -Ability to work in, and travel between, a variety of settings including the hospital, office and patients own homes.
- -Resilience and adaptability.
- -Effective communication, both written and verbal, and interpersonal skills.
- -Ability to input information into a computer database.
- -Good situational judgement and self-motivated, working at times out of the office and without direct supervision.
- -Ability to work effectively as part of a team and engage professionally with a range of partners.
- ** The successful candidate must be able to fulfill the requirements for an honorary contract with The Royal Blackburn Hospital which include an enhanced DBS check and suitable references**
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- -An awareness of alcohol issues.
- -Experience of working in a multidisciplinary service linked to substance use, social or medical services.
- -Ability to work in, and travel between, a variety of settings including the hospital, office and patients own homes.
- -Resilience and adaptability.
- -Effective communication, both written and verbal, and interpersonal skills.
- -Ability to input information into a computer database.
- -Good situational judgement and self-motivated, working at times out of the office and without direct supervision.
- -Ability to work effectively as part of a team and engage professionally with a range of partners.
- ** The successful candidate must be able to fulfill the requirements for an honorary contract with The Royal Blackburn Hospital which include an enhanced DBS check and suitable references**
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
