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JOB DESCRIPTION
1. JOB DETAILS
Job Title:
Senior Recovery Worker
Salary:
£24 -28k Dependent on knowledge, skills and experience
Directorate:
Substance Misuse Service
Accountable to:
Lead
Hours:
Part time (minimum 30 hours/week) and Full time (37.5 hours/week)
Tenure:
Permanent
Location:
South Tyneside
2. JOB PURPOSE
To lead a team of Recovery Workers in a defined area who provide psycho social
interventions to Service Users with problematic use of drugs and/or alcohol.
To carry a case load of clients with drug and/or alcohol problems, delivering psycho social
interventions to promote recovery and abstinence.
To assist in the delivery of recovery orientated treatment which will incorporate where
appropriate abstinence based, harm reduction, psychosocial and other therapeutic
interventions in line with the NTA’s Models of Care clinical guidance, current drug strategy
and a shared care treatment model.
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3. MAIN DUTIES
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To support Recovery and Assistant Recovery Workers within the cluster area.
Providing their direct line management, supervision and development of appraisal
and professional development plans.
To work closely with the Lead and other Senior Recovery Workers to identify
targets and develop strategies which ensure all key performance indicators are met
as set by the Board.
Deputise for the Lead in their absence
To work unsupervised in a manner that promotes excellent service user care while
recognising professional and organisational requirements and boundaries
Hold a case load of clients in the cluster area providing psycho social interventions
which will include but not limited to motivational interviewing, goal setting and
node link mapping
Provide holistic assessment from where SMART care plans can be developed with
the service user and reviewed at timely intervals.
To motivate, encourage and support individuals to achieve the goals identified in
their action plan
Incorporating recovery themes into every aspect of the treatment journey
To coordinate and review the delivery of care as set out within the client’s care
plan. To liaise with other professionals as part of the coordination of clients’ care,
including referral and ongoing communication with appropriate shared care
providers / prescribers as necessary
To assist in the delivery of abstinence based treatments, recovery orientated
interventions, harm reduction, psychosocial and other therapeutic interventions in
line with the NTA’s Models of Care clinical guidance and current drug strategy
To regularly review and evaluate care and treatment progress using the NTA’s
Treatment Outcome Profile and other tools such as the International Treatment
Effectiveness Plans (ITEP).
To participate in clinical governance and to be involved in changes in practice.
To participate in the continuous assessment of workload in order to support the
optimum use of resources.
To participate in and support audit and practice/ staff development.
To compile comprehensive / accurate reports as appropriate / delegated for
example those required by safeguarding units and criminal justice settings
To adopt our quality improvement methodology and seek to continuously improve
our systems for the value of our clients
To promote Mutual Aid/Peer Support with clients
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The post will involve regular travel locally and very occasionally nationally and the post
holder may be required to undertake occasional evening or weekend work.
This job description is not an exhaustive list of duties and responsibilities. The post
holder will be asked to carry out other duties which are appropriate to the skills of the
post holder and grade of the post as the priorities of the service change.
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PERSONAL SPECIFICATION
Essential
Qualifications
Experience
Registered nurse (RGN,
RMN, RMNH, RNLD)
OR
Registered Social Worker
(Dip SW or equivalent)
OR
BACP approved
Counselling Diploma and
evidence of working
towards BACP
accreditation
OR
Other Degree level
qualification in an
associated field
Experience of working in
a health or social care
team
Experience of working
with drug and alcohol
users using a variation of
approaches to support
recovery
Experience of
coordinating client care
with input from a range
of professionals
Method of
Assessment
Application
form
Interview
Application
form
Interview
Application
form
Interview
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form
Interview
Desirable
Method of
Assessment
Experience of
audit,
evaluation or
research
Application
form
Interview
Evidence of
recent
innovative
practice
Experience of
abstinence
based, recovery
based and harm
reduction
interventions
related to drug
and alcohol use
Experience of
attendance at
Child Protection
Conference and
Core Groups
and the
associated
report writing
Application
form
Interview
Application
form
Interview
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form
Interview
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Skills /
Attributes /
Knowledge
Excellent interpersonal
skills
Application
form
Interview
Leadership skills
Application
form
Interview
Ability to communicate
effectively verbally and
in writing
Ability to organise own
and other team
members workload, use
own initiative and
recognise limitations
Competent user of IT
systems including
Microsoft Office or
equivalent software
Application
form
Interview
Application
form
Interview
Care planning skills
Application
form
Interview
Assessment skills
Application
form
Interview
Skills in delivering health
promotion advice
Application
form
Interview
Application
form
Knowledge of
abstinence
based, recovery
based and harm
reduction
interventions
related to drug
and alcohol use
Knowledge of
Harm
Reduction
Interventions
related to Drug
and Alcohol use
Application
form
Interview
Knowledge of
recovery and
abstinence
based mutual
aid groups
Knowledge or
skilled in the
use of patient
electronic
record systems
including EMIS
Application
form and
interview
Care
management
skills to coordinate care
using multiagency
approaches
Understanding
of single
assessment
approaches
Application
form and
interview
Application
form
Interview
Application
form and
interview
Application
form and
interview
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Knowledge of
the associated
legislation
including
Children Act
1989 and 2004,
Mental
Capacity Act
2005 snd 2010
and The Health
and Social Care
Act 2008 and
2012
Knowledge of
report writing
for adult
safeguarding
procedures and
criminal justice
reports
Experience of
ITEP,
motivational
techniques and
or counselling
skills
Ability to
cascade
legislation to
other members
of the team
through
educational
sessions
Physical
Requirements
Ability to meet the travel
requirements of the post
Car owner/driver
Application
form
Application
form
Application
form
Interview
Application
form
Interview
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form
Interview
Application
form
Interview