2 jobs found in Stourbridge

Apricus Resourcing are working with a local council authority who are looking for a Qualified Social Worker to work in a Mental Health Hospital Discharge team in Dudley – the role will be based for between the next 6-18 months. Main role objectives: Ensure the service users and carers have opportunity to have the shortest length of stay in institutional environment as possible. Discharge will be efficient and effective, with appropriate personalised support ensuring user can be maintained at home and carer is considered and supported within any package of care, ensuring individual flexibility for support where possible and personalised planning aided by VSC support worker is completed. Key contacts include NHS organisations; Black Country Health Care Trust, Acute Hospitals as well as any community mental health or physical health teams. Local authority SW Teams and VSC providers. Duties include: * Able to complete care act assessments and make recommendations – start the...

We currently seeking a Substance Misuse Recovery Coordinator for our client in Birmingham on an initial 3 month contract to start ASAP. The rate of pay will be negotiated between £21-23 an hour. As a Recovery Coordinator you will be required to: * Supporting service users from point of entry into the service and through their treatment/recovery journey; * Providing screening, assessment, and recovery planning and onward referral; * Reducing drug and alcohol related harm to service users and the wider community; * Promoting carer, service user and community involvement; * Providing advocacy for access to partnership services; * Working with service users to support social (re)integration, enabling them to lead meaningful and purposeful lives: promoting recovery, resilience, peer support and self determination. An Enhanced Adults and Children's DBS will be required for this position