Substance Misuse Social Worker - outreach team

Substance Misuse Social Worker - outreach team

It is a very exciting time to be working in the drug and alcohol fieldwith significant new career developments.

PLEASE NOTE:
The successful candidate must, by the commencement of employment, have the right towork in the UK.

The outreach team will engage with the roughsleepers and the hard-to-reach community, as well as those with physical health needs and support them to enter the treatment system and the wider local community services. The successful candidate willdevise a holistic care package, following an assessment of risk and need. You will be required to work flexibly to meet the needs of this group.

If you are a qualified and registered Social Worker, with experience or an interest in working withsubstance users we would like to hear from you.

The Alcohol & Drug Service (ADS) are a registered charity who havebeen transforming the lives of people affected by drugs and alcohol misuse forover 40 years.

Aspireis a partnership between ADS and Rotherham, Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust (RDaSH). It combines the strengths of both NHS provision under the leadership of a consultant with the strengths of the voluntary sector provided by ADS. The partnership has worked together for over 20 years providing Drug and Alcohol Services to our local communities. It is a forward thinking and innovative partnership that works closely with the recovery communities it serves to provide flexible, responsive services which offer the best possible outcomes for its service users and community it serves.

To demonstrate expert and effective practice in complex situations, assessing and managing both new and existingservice users. To manage a caseload in line with the service user profile.

• Qualified and registered Social Worker
• Microsoft Office including outlook, word and excel
• Level 3 Tackling Substance Misuse

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£25,905 to £31,611 a yearplus Social Work registration fee