Key Purpose

• To directly intervene with patients in both community and hospital settings to help them to address their problematic alcohol use and associated issues and so reduce their impact on health care provision.
• To provide support in the community for these patients, once discharged from secondary care, with the aim of helping them to make the positive lifestyle changes that will aid their recovery.
• To enable these patients to engage with mainstream services.

Alcohol Specialist Intensive Support Worker Duties:

• To work in a “Team within a Team” model within the local hospital
• To review and assess the needs of service users with an alcohol problem within a secondary care setting where appropriate.
• To review and develop service provision to meet identified local need, as appropriate within a secondary care setting and support service users within their own homes.
• To adopt an assertive outreach approach to ensure engagement of the service users in the community.
• To support service users to improve general health, including dietary needs, personal hygiene, ensuring basic Maslow hierarchy of needs are met by encouraging uptake and assisting clients to access primary and secondary health care and other appropriate services.
• To support service users to improve their social situation, including assistance with housing, benefits, accessing community services and budgeting.
• To work with service users to remove any structural and social barriers to accessing treatment services including intensive pre and post detox psychosocial support.
• To support service users who have appropriate levels of social capital to access appropriate treatment and recovery services.

To apply, please visit our website using the following link: https://project6.org.uk/alcohol-specialist-intensive-support-worker-mast...

Here you will find the job description/person specification with thorough details and all essential criteria.

Project 6 have recently undertaken the challenge of looking at ourselves in terms of diversity and inclusion and would be delighted to see applications from all the communities we exist to support, particularly from people from BAME communities, who are under-represented within our organisation.

Closing date: 2nd April 2021

Interviews: w/c 12th April 2021

Contract length: Until April 2022

Salary: £22,658 per annum

Hours: 36 per week to include weekend working on a rotational basis

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