Job summary
At MPFT we pride ourselves on staff wellbeing and development and can we offer you:
- Our SOOTHE resources - supporting staff across the trust with their physical, mental and financial health. In addition to the support offered from our occupational health provider Team Prevent.
- Counselling support and lifestyle information with advice on a variety of personal matters
- "In our Gift" providing a platform for your voice to be heard to inform change
- The opportunity to purchase additional annual leave
- Opportunities for flexible working (depending on the role)
- Career development opportunities and coaching plus access to in house training programs
- Innovative research training program entitled STARS (Supporting the advancement of Research Skills)
- Child Care Vouchers Scheme
- Recognition and engagement through our staff LOVE awards, LOVE long service awards and Staff Engagement Surveys
- NHS discounts available via the Blue Card and Red Guava schemes
Main duties of the job
To provide specialist evidence based family interventions and support to people with drug and alcohol problems their families and friends within the organisational framework of the Hampshire Community Drug and Alcohol Team.
The job includes caseloadmanagement - holding a caseload of service users and being responsible for offering a range of interventions to those individuals including assessment, care planning and risk assessing and supporting service users through their treatment journey from beginning to end. It involves working as part of a multi-disciplinary team, offering blood borne virus clinics and health clinics and working alongside our prescribers, embracing the concept of recovery and keeping up to date and accurate records and documentation.
About us
Inclusion, created in 2002 is part of the Specialist Services Care Group of Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT). We provide caring and effective services across England, including, West Yorkshire, West Midlands, East Midlands, West Mercia, Thames Valley, Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Thurrock, Essex.
We support individuals, families and communities who are affected by addiction, crime, mental health or need treatment for their sexual health. We believe that the individuals and families who use our services should receive high quality, committed and inclusive care, realising all the benefits a modern NHS organisation can provide.
We work with patients and our staff teams to achieve the best outcomes we can. We invest heavily in training and development, and the wellbeing of our people, both staff and service users is central to who we are. Here at MPFT, we are proud of the comprehensive wellbeing and lifestyle support offer available, in addition to in-house training and coaching support.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Client Work
- To accept referrals, assess need and make appropriate recommendations as part of a robust duty system.
- Provide harm reduction advice, information and support with an emphasis on safer drug use, safer sex, HIV, Hepatitis A,B and C and other blood borne infections
- To work with service users, their families and carers.
- Be responsible for maintaining a caseload of clients where appropriate
- To make home visits consistent with need.
- To carry out comprehensive assessments, construct care packages with multi-disciplinary colleagues where required, review care plans in a structured format and manage onward referral.
- To assist and support medical and nurse prescribers during harm reduction and prescribing clinics.
- To provide a range of structured psycho-social interventions including CBT based brief solution focused therapy and motivational enhancement techniques.
- Make domiciliary visits to service users particularly for those with disabilities and to those with family responsibilities.
- Retain contact with service users whilst they are accommodated in residential rehabilitation units including visits when required.
- To create and facilitate group work interventions.
- To provide a needle exchange service.
- Demonstrable commitment to service user involvement.
- To work with a range of professionals in ensuring service users needs in terms of safeguarding and mental health are met.
- Carry out needle exchanges, home visits and the running of clinics.
- Promote partnership work with local family focused agencies, including Sure Start, Social Care, Young Carers, Carers services, LSCB, Family support Groups
- To ensure provision of drug advice and information to Families and Carers, including training, education and support groups
- To ensure provision of a range of interventions to families and carers through structured and unstructured 1-2-1 and group interventions
- To support other Recovery Workers to increase their knowledge in the area of family work.
- Provide quarterly reports to the management team
- Ensure up to date with continued professional development, including identifying suitable training opportunities.
- To keep forms, leaflets and promotional material up to date.
Liaison
- To develop and sustain links with multi-disciplinary services including statutory and non-statutory providers of Tier 2,3,4 drug services, criminal justice services and providers of wrap around services.
- To develop a network of contacts with relevant agencies to promote service accessibility for the client group.
- To attend relevant meeting to represent Inclusion and the team when required.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Client Work
- To accept referrals, assess need and make appropriate recommendations as part of a robust duty system.
- Provide harm reduction advice, information and support with an emphasis on safer drug use, safer sex, HIV, Hepatitis A,B and C and other blood borne infections
- To work with service users, their families and carers.
- Be responsible for maintaining a caseload of clients where appropriate
- To make home visits consistent with need.
- To carry out comprehensive assessments, construct care packages with multi-disciplinary colleagues where required, review care plans in a structured format and manage onward referral.
- To assist and support medical and nurse prescribers during harm reduction and prescribing clinics.
- To provide a range of structured psycho-social interventions including CBT based brief solution focused therapy and motivational enhancement techniques.
- Make domiciliary visits to service users particularly for those with disabilities and to those with family responsibilities.
- Retain contact with service users whilst they are accommodated in residential rehabilitation units including visits when required.
- To create and facilitate group work interventions.
- To provide a needle exchange service.
- Demonstrable commitment to service user involvement.
- To work with a range of professionals in ensuring service users needs in terms of safeguarding and mental health are met.
- Carry out needle exchanges, home visits and the running of clinics.
- Promote partnership work with local family focused agencies, including Sure Start, Social Care, Young Carers, Carers services, LSCB, Family support Groups
- To ensure provision of drug advice and information to Families and Carers, including training, education and support groups
- To ensure provision of a range of interventions to families and carers through structured and unstructured 1-2-1 and group interventions
- To support other Recovery Workers to increase their knowledge in the area of family work.
- Provide quarterly reports to the management team
- Ensure up to date with continued professional development, including identifying suitable training opportunities.
- To keep forms, leaflets and promotional material up to date.
Liaison
- To develop and sustain links with multi-disciplinary services including statutory and non-statutory providers of Tier 2,3,4 drug services, criminal justice services and providers of wrap around services.
- To develop a network of contacts with relevant agencies to promote service accessibility for the client group.
- To attend relevant meeting to represent Inclusion and the team when required.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Foundation Degree / HNC in related field which may include counselling, social work, nursing, psychology, human resources, social studies
Desirable
- A professional qualification in Social Work, Probation, Nursing,
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working with drug users.
- A commitment to and understanding of harm reduction approaches to working with drug users.
- Excellent communication skills and a willingness to promote service user involvement.
Desirable
- Experience of working within multidisciplinary teams with a proven ability to work collaboratively across professional boundaries
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Foundation Degree / HNC in related field which may include counselling, social work, nursing, psychology, human resources, social studies
Desirable
- A professional qualification in Social Work, Probation, Nursing,
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working with drug users.
- A commitment to and understanding of harm reduction approaches to working with drug users.
- Excellent communication skills and a willingness to promote service user involvement.
Desirable
- Experience of working within multidisciplinary teams with a proven ability to work collaboratively across professional boundaries
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
