Outreach Recovery Worker

Outreach Recovery Worker

Job Type: Full Time, Fixed Term

Location: Chatham, Kent.

Salary: £24,000 per annum.

Are you passionate about helping people and looking for a new challenge?

Do you want to work for a company where you are valued and be a person who can make a difference?

We are Forward Trust, the social enterprise that empowers people to break the cycle of crime or addiction to move forward with their lives.

The Role

Working within an integrated healthcare framework to provide support to drug and alcohol users aged 18 and over Through outreach approach. Services are designed to deliver Clinical and drug and Alcohol Interventions for Service users that are identified as having an Alcohol or drug problem.

This role is predominantly outreach based which includes street outreach, hospital in reach, home visits and outreach to other locations that would support client engagement in treatment.

Flexibility will be required in this role, this may include some evening/weekend shift and with reasonable notice to travel to other projects in your cluster to deliver services, enabling continuity of care for the client group.

What are we looking for?

We are looking for motivated, self-driven and passionate individuals to work with our client group and support them on their way to recovery. The skills and experience listed below is desirable but not essential as we offer robust induction and ongoing training programme to develop our workforce.

• Knowledge of OST and harm
• Experience and motivation to engage individuals through pro-active outreach.
• Experience of engaging and motivating individuals to change.
• Experience of working within the substance misuse services.
• Experience of carrying out comprehensive assessments, risk management plans and the design and implementation of SMART care plans.
• Speaker of multiple languages is desirable but not essential.
• Experience of delivering structured interventions to service users.
• Experience of facilitating groups.
• Using motivational interviewing techniques in both 1:1 and group settings.
• Strong IT skills.

Benefits

• Training and development opportunities
• Flexible working
• Simply Health Cashback Scheme (Optional)
• Season Ticket Loan Scheme
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Crisis Loan Scheme
• Electric Car Scheme
• 3 x Wellbeing Days (pro rata'd for part time employees)
• Access to Blue Light Card
• 25 days (rising to 30 with length of service) Annual Leave plus Bank Holidays
• Contributory Pension Scheme - Employer matched contributions of up to 6% in the first two years’ service and up to 9% thereafter
• Death in Service Payment (2x annual salary)
• Critical Illness Insurance (subject to qualifying criteria)

To Apply

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