Drug and Alcohol Recovery Practitioner Woking
Job description
Job Reference JOB00000399 Location Woking, Surrey Salary £25,220 - £29,042 per annum, inclusive of London Weighting where appropriate Vacancy Type Permanent/Full Time Working Hours 37.5 hours per week Application Deadline Sunday, October 22, 2023 Job Summary Would you like to join us in supporting those effected by drug and alcohol issues to improve their health and wellbeing? The Role Based within i-access Drug and Alcohol Service, this Recovery Practitioner role will offer support to adults who use our services in Surrey to help them achieve their recovery goals through 1:1s and structured groupwork packages. The role will involve the following elements. Deliver excellent drug and alcohol services to service users and their significant others, including family members friends and carers, to facilitate positive outcomes. Manage a case load, coordinate and deliver assessment and evidence-based interventions (brief and structured), recovery planning and aftercare planning. To work collaboratively with colleagues and key stakeholder across multi-disciplinary teams, ensuring adherence with all Via policies and Safeguarding principles. The Service i-access is an integrated service delivered in partnership by Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Trust (SABP) and Via is commissioned to provide substance misuse treatment for people aged 18 and onwards in Surrey. This service is an established community Integrated service that is well performing and highly functioning, it consists of both clinical and psychosocial and is CQC registered to provide a range of clinical interventions including BBV & health interventions, OST, and community detox. VIA is committed to the ongoing professional development of all our staff. Through joining VIA, you will receive a warm welcome, peer support, extensive training, regular supervision and the chance to thrive in a lively and aspirational organisation. Location Woking (Xchange), 20 High Street, Woking, GU21 6BW. Travel to Epsom will also be required one day per week to deliver face to face interventions. A willingness to cover other sites across Surrey as required. All reasonable travel expenses will be reimbursed. To see the generous range of benefits we offer at Via including 30 days annual leave for all new starters, our health and wellbeing initiatives, financial perks and development opportunities – visit our Benefits Package For an informal discussion about the position please contact Titania May, Service Manager via [email protected] The closing date for applications is Sunday 22 October at midnight. Interviews are likely to take place week commencing 30 October. We only accept applications via http://www.viaorg.uk/work-at-via/career-paths/ using our application form, sorry we don’t accept CVs. For guidance on how to complete the application visit http://www.viaorg.uk/work-at-via/how-to-apply/. Please submit your application as soon as possible as we may close adverts at any time if we receive a sufficient number of applications. Via welcomes enquiries from everyone, and we value diversity in our workplace. Our commitment to promoting diversity and developing a workplace environment where all staff are treated with dignity and respect is central to our recruitment process. We’re a Disability Confident Employer and are committed to the employment and career development of disabled people. We offer an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for our jobs, please confirm in the personal statement part of our application form that you are applying under this scheme. Appointment to all our posts are subject to satisfactory completion of our safeguarding checks including DBS and we follow safer recruiting principles. Please email [email protected] if you have any recruitment enquiries or if you require this documentation in an accessible format.
