East London NHS Foundation Trust (ELFT) is seeking a dedicated Recovery Worker to join our team. We welcome applications from qualified candidates, including those in need of visa sponsorship
About the Trust
East London NHS Foundation Trust (ELFT), formerly known as East London and The City University Mental Health NHS Trust, was established in April 2000. The Trust was formed by merging mental health services from three community trusts across Tower Hamlets, Newham, The City, and Hackney, consolidating expertise to become one of the UK’s largest specialist NHS providers.
Our Services and Reach
– Core Areas: The Trust serves City of London, Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets, Bedfordshire, and Luton (since April 2015).
– Specialist Care: ELFT delivers mental health, community health, and primary care services, extending its impact beyond core areas.
– Award-Winning Units: We are home to an acclaimed mother and baby psychiatric unit in Homerton, serving referrals from across the southeast.
At ELFT, we are committed to delivering exceptional care, supporting recovery, and improving health outcomes across diverse communities.
Join our team and help us make a difference in the lives of those we serve. Apply today!
Position: Recovery Worker
Salary: £29,970 to £36,483 a year
Job Type: Full Time
Location: Bedford, UK
About the Role
P2R are looking a flexible worker with experience of working in social care preferably with substance misuses.
Path to Recovery, Drug and Alcohol Services provides community based drug and alcohol services to Bedford Borough and Central Bedfordshire
The purpose of the job is to reduce drug and alcohol related harms to individuals, families and communities, and empower service users to achieve a better quality of life and wellbeing and fulfill their personal ambitions for recovery. The post holder will
Put service users at the centre of everything they do, and consistently deliver a high quality service that promotes and supports recovery in line with Trust vision and processes
Work to values that include self-determination, empowerment and choice for service users
Work in partnership with service users and empower them to draw on their individual strengths and assets, and set goals they would like to achieve in all aspects of their lives.
Deliver personalised and evidence based interventions in one-to-one and group settings, and will optimise their interventions to achieve the best possible outcomes
Main Duties
- To manage a caseload of 35-70 service users, depending on complexity and other responsibilities
- To carry out drug and alcohol misuse assessment including assessment of personal strengths and recovery capital, and risks.
- To develop recovery plans using a person centred approach to develop, implement and evaluate needs and strengths based care plans and risk management plans in partnership with service users, carers and other professionals.
- To offer health promotion and deliver harm reduction interventions, including needle exchange and access to physical health care including BBV and health screening
- To provide IBA, extended IBA, one-to-one and group interventions
- To liaise with professionals e.g. GP at start of treatment, at review and discharge
- To provide evidence based drug and alcohol interventions in line with guidelines e.g. NICE, CQC, in a variety of settings promoting flexibility and choice for service users.
- To deliver prescribing interventions, working in partnership with medical colleagues; titration, monitor and review maintenance regimes, detoxification etc.
- To maximise engagement with service users and reduce the risks both to the individual service user and to others affected by their drug and/or alcohol misuse.
- To facilitate service users and carers to be involved in care and treatment.
- To refer service users to appropriate Health and Social Care services that support their recovery and support them in accessing these services.
- To lead and participate in the clinical activities of the Team such as evening service and duty worker system.
- To make full use of all available interventions for delivering treatment, including online
- To work as an effective member of the multi-disciplinary team ensuring effective communication with other team members and other professionals.
- To attend, lead and contribute to multi-disciplinary and multi-agency clinical meetings.
- To receive and participate in clinical supervision in accordance with Trust policy
- To attend, lead and contribute to team meetings.
- To maintain electronic health care records in accordance with Trusts Record Keeping policies.
- To record data in line with the service Operational Policies
- To produce high quality letters and reports about service users care and treatment.
- To use Information Management and Technology effectively and efficiently in accordance with Trust policies.
- To complete incident reporting in accordance with Trust policies.
Qualifications
- English and Maths at minimum GCSE or higher (or equivalent).
- Qualification in using Microsoft Office Applications (or demonstrable skill)
- NVQ Level 4 in Health and Social Care (or equivalent demonstrable skill)
- Professional Qualification e.g. Nursing, Social Work or Counselling.
- Training in Motivational Interviewing or other psychosocial interventions.
- Fluency in an additional language to English which is highly prevalent in the local community
- Experience of working in Health or Social Care
- Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team.
- Experience of providing evidence based interventions
- Experience of Recovery Focused interventions.
- Experience of care planning and risk assessment
- Experience of using Information and Communication Technology to deliver clinical practice.
- Experience of managing a caseload of drug and alcohol users.
- Ability to empower service users to draw from their strengths and assets, and identify solutions Skills in assessing needs and setting goals
- Skills in planning, implementing and evaluating care.
- Ability to manage a caseload. Effective communication skills, verbal and written.
- Ability to maintain professional boundaries and work effectively with service users, colleagues and other agencies.
- Have a positive attitude to learning and personal development.
Benefits
Certificate of Sponsorship
- Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications
Required Documents
- CV/Resume
- Cover Letter
Application Process
Interested and qualified candidates should kindly CLICK HERE to learn more and apply
Application Deadline
December 22, 2024