2 jobs found in Wokingham

We currently seeking a Substance Misuse Recovery Worker for our client in Reading on a 3 month contract to start ASAP. The rate of pay will be negotiated between £20-21 an hour. This will be Full Time Contract, Monday to Friday from 09:00-17:00. As a Recovery Worker 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 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

Job description: One of our client is looking for Recovery Worker B5 positions available to support One Recovery. The role is for those accessing treatment with alcohol or substance dependency, mainly opiate dependency. The role is Full Time Mon – Fri 9-5 to start asap for 12 weeks. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES * Provide harm reduction advice, information, and support with an emphasis on safer drug use, safer sex, HIV, Hepatitis A, B and C and other blood borne infections * Be responsible for maintaining a full case load of clients as the key worker. * 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 assist and support nurse prescribers during prescribing clinics. * To provide a range of structured psycho-social interventions including CBT based brief solution focused therapy and motivational enhancement techniques. * To create and...