Job Description

We have an exciting opportunity within our Derbyshire Recovery Partnership substance misuse service for someone who is passionate about helping people and making a difference in the field of alcohol work.

Are you experienced, skilled, and passionate about making a difference to people’s lives? We’re looking for a dedicated alcohol worker to engage and assess people who use our service, ensuring they receive timely and personalised support that meets their individual set of circumstances and needs.

As an alcohol key worker you will manage your own caseload of individuals accessing treatment for support to address their alcohol use. Within this role you will conduct assessments and 121 appointments which will involve offering a range of harm reduction techniques and structured key work sessions. You will work with people on your caseload to help them achieve their personal goals around reductions in use/abstinence. This will include planning and supporting structured drink-downs from alcohol, involvement of the service’s specialist alcohol non-medical prescribers for community detox and/or assisted withdrawal medications, and supporting and motiving people to complete in-patient detox and rehab. You will also consider involving other specialist teams from within our service, which may include; counselling, homelessness and rough sleeping, recovery connectors and hospital alcohol liaison, to achieve positive outcomes for people living in Chesterfield that want to address their alcohol use and improve their quality of life, health and well-being.

You will work in a all-inclusive way with people accessing our service, which will include communicating with other professionals, making referrals to other services, completing risk assessments and developing recovery-focused care plans which aim to support individuals to improve their health and well-being and achieve their personalised treatment goals.

This role will involve working 37.5 hours per week, Monday-Friday 9am-5pm on a permanent contract. You will be based in our Chesterfield office (at St Mary’s Gate) which has great bus and rail links and we have a private staff car park to the rear of the building. The office is within easy commuting distance to Sheffield, Rotherham, Workshop, Mansfield and Amber Valley.

If you’re passionate about making a positive difference, particularly with people struggling to reduce their alcohol use, we’d love to have you in our team. You’ll give people support and inspiration that will help them change their lives for the better.

*Job description is attached.  Please ensure that when completing your application form and supporting statement, you reflect on the details outlined in the job description as this will help us understand how your skills and experiences align with the requirements of the role.

We are keen to hear from anyone with experience of working within the field of drug and alcohol use, and/or has lived experience, who is motivated and passionate about recovery.

Phoenix Futures Group is a charity with over 50 years’ experience and a leading provider of drug and alcohol treatment. Our values are what define us and ensure we work to the highest standards. We believe in being the best, we are passionate about recovery, we value our history and use it to inform our future. We work with local authorities, other charities and service providers across the country to deliver innovative programmes and projects that change lives for the better, setting people on the path to health and emotional wellbeing. We provide a diverse range of services, our expertise in psychosocial treatment and support is the common thread that runs through everything we do. People need psychological interventions, social support, meaningful use of time, sense of purpose and a place of safety to sustain their recovery. At our core, we support people, families and communities to recover from drug and alcohol dependency. We encourage and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and believe it is important to include people with lived experience to ensure the needs of the people we support are represented. We are committed to creating an inclusive working environment where everyone is free to be themselves and we ensure equity of opportunity.

For more information about the Derbyshire Recovery Partnership, visit: www.derbyshirerecoverypartnership.co.uk.

Applications can be made via: www.phoenixfutures.org.uk

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Job Types: Full-Time. Job Tags: 3494. Salaries: 20,000 - 40,000.

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