Job summary
- Main area
- Drug and Alcohol Services
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week (Occasional weekend and evening working)
- Job ref
- 301-IT-25-7243192
- Employer
- Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust - Inclusion Services
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- The Castle
- Town
- Winchester
- Salary
- £29,970 - £36,483 per annum, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 26/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Recovery Worker/Recovery Nurse
NHS AfC: Band 5
Job overview
Are you committed to making a positive change and empowering service users to achieve a better quality of life?
We have an exciting opportunity for a passionate and caring individual to join our teams within Inclusion Recovery Hampshire, either as a Recover Worker or Recovery Nurse working 30 hours per week.
In this role, you will utilise all of your expertise in providing a remarkable service and care to your own caseload of service users, this includes being responsible for offering a range of interventions, care planning, assessments and supporting service users through their treatment journey and recovery ambitions – from beginning to end.
Working as part of our dedicated and multi-disciplinary team and alongside our prescribers, you will offer health support via testing clinics for blood borne viruses (BBVs), embracing the concept of recovery and keeping up-to-date and accurate records and documentation.
The vacancy is open to individuals with an understanding of substance use, treatment and supporting people, and/or registered nurses.
You will be an integral part of a team, making a real difference to people’s lives and the wider communities in which we serve.
Main duties of the job
Recovery Worker (working 30 hours per week) at Inclusion Recovery Hampshire’s Winchester Service.
Everyone should feel comfortable getting the support they need for issues relating to drugs and alcohol and as a Recovery Worker, you will have a duty of care to those in need, providing high quality, inclusive and non-judgemental support. You will be motivated to support service users to develop the social networks and skills that they require to develop positive coping mechanisms, to guide them towards reintegrating successfully into the wider community.
Working for our organisation
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the Job Description and Person Specification for further details, a summary is below:
- Be responsible for maintaining a full caseload of complex clients and supporting them to move forward in their recovery.
- To accept referrals, assess need and make appropriate recommendations as part as a robust duty system.
- Provide harm reduction advice, information and support with an emphasis on safer drug and alcohol use, safer sex, HIV, Hepatitis A, B and C and other blood borne viruses (BBVs).
- 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 provide a range of structured psychosocial interventions including CBT-based brief solution-focused therapy, motivational enhancement techniques, and create and facilitate group work interventions.
- To make domiciliary visits consistent with need, particularly for service users 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 provide a needle exchange service.
Liaison Responsibilities:
- To develop and sustain links with multi-disciplinary services including statutory and non-statutory providers of drug and alcohol 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.
Tasks specific for a Recovery Nurse in addition to the above:
- Supporting and facilitating home detoxes
- Undertaking health and wellbeing interventions/reviews
We welcome informal discussions prior to application – reach out to us today to find out more!
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Previous experience of working in the drug and alcohol field.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent communication skills
- A commitment to, and understanding of, harm reduction & recovery approaches when working with people who use Drug and Alcohol
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Accredited Drug and Alcohol Practitioner, or a willingness to work towards accreditation during employment with Inclusion
Desirable criteria
- Foundation Degree / HNC in related field which may include counselling, social work, nursing, psychology, human resources, social studies
- Relevant training / Qualification in associated field • CBT • Motivational Interviewing • Brief solution focussed therapy • Mapping techniques (ITEP/BTEI)
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Piers Anning
- Job title
- SMS Recovery Worker
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 1240103
- Additional information
- If you would like to know more and find out whether joining our dedicated team is for you then please get in touch with Piers Anning as we would love to hear from you.0300 1240103 Option 7**** We do not accept CVs. Applications will only be considered if made via the website.********This vacancy may close early if a sufficient number of applications are received.****
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