Job description

Job responsibilities

1. Provide comprehensive care to clients with substance use issues, supporting them from their initial entry into service throughout their treatment and recovery journey.
2. Completing screenings and assessments, delivering evidence-based interventions, planning for recovery, and completing care reviews.
3. Identifying appropriate interventions, services, placements, and packages of support.
4. Presenting funding requests and/or updates concerning client outcomes to an appropriate panel and monitoring/reviewing agreed plans/placements.
5. Effectively managing a caseload of clients. Regularly reviewing cases, implementing actions, reviewing risk and following all safeguarding processes and procedures.
6. Developing effective working relationships and communication with key voluntary and statutory services to embed a more solution-focused response to people with multiple needs.
7. Carrying out risk assessments and risk management.
8. Preforming proactive outreach including home visits, appointments in the community and outreach for street active/entrenched groups to enhance engagement and promote social inclusion.
9. Identifying and addressing barriers/obstacles to treatment and developing innovative solutions to enhance accessibility.
10. Planning service delivery contact flexibly to meet individual needs and adopting a proactive approach to engagement to maximise service accessibility. This includes delivering interventions peripatetically in a wide range of settings and communicating via a range of methods.
11. Working alongside our Specialist Nurse Prescribers to support our substitution prescribing program.
12. Working closely with clinical staff to ensure clients have access to appropriate clinical interventions.
13. Ensuring strict adherence to all clinical pathways, processes and guidelines including titration and medication pathways.
14. Supporting clients identified through the criminal justice system to reduce substance use related harm as well as reducing the risk of reoffending.
15. Delivering DRR/ATR interventions in alignment with National Probation Service (NPS) court order requirements.
16. Ensuring seamless transitions between police/court custody suites, prison, and community settings.
17. Providing harm reduction information and implementing harm reduction strategies.
18. Following processes relating to referrals for detox and rehab.
19. Working alongside any relevant persons/services to plan safe exits from service and organising appropriate ongoing care.
20. Ensuring accurate recordings of clients progression, records and plans.
21. Ensuring clients have regular and up-to-date copies of their support plan and safety plan.
22. Recording activity and results in an accurate and timely manner to support project evaluation as well as funding and research requirements.
23. Making constructive use of supervision sessions as well as engaging in reflective practice.
24. Commitment to continuous professional development.
25. Working appropriately within professional boundaries.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Proven experience of working with a range of vulnerable and complex service users in a range of settings.
• Experience working in crisis intervention, need and risk assessment, advocacy and support for vulnerable service users.
• Experience of using/inputting on to information and caseload management systems.

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

• Working flexibly to meet the demands of the service.
• 1.Knowledge or experience of delivering creative and effective evidence-based interventions to improve service user outcomes.
• A strong working knowledge of local services and ability to work collaboratively with partners with the ability to galvanize a team around a service user to achieve the best outcomes.
• Ability to demonstrate good interpersonal and communication skills.
• Effective time management and organisational skills and the ability to manage competing work demands.

Desirable

• Knowledge of the legislative, guidance and policy framework for homelessness, substance misuse and domestic abuse and good understanding of issues faced by those experiencing homelessness, substance misuse and domestic abuse.
• Ability to engage service users in co-production including planning, delivery and evaluations of provision.
• Willingness to train in and work to a strength-based model of service delivery.
• Strong understanding of trauma and impact trauma has on capacity to access support.
• Knowledge of safeguarding adult and childrens procedures.

Middlesbrough Values

Essential

• Being passionate about working for Middlesbrough Council with a commitment to meeting our values.

Qualifications

Essential

• Access to own transport and a full UK Driving License with proof of business insurance prior to starting the role.

Desirable

• Maths and English GCSE or equivalent.
• Educated to degree level or equivalent.
• Vocational qualification in relation to substance misuse, domestic abuse or homelessness.

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.

Employer details

Employer name

Middlesbrough Council

Address

Fountain Court

119 Grange Road

Middlesbrough

TS1 2DT

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.middlesbrough.gov.uk/careers-and-job-opportunities/current-vacancies/ (Opens in a new tab)