Women's and Family Advanced Recovery Practitioner

Job Introduction

Are you an experienced substance use or health and social care professional keen to take your work to the next level by supporting specific groups of complex service users and less experienced staff?

These are new roles in our teams across a range of areas. For these roles you will have either significant experience in providing a substance misuse services or a related field in health, social care or criminal justice services and/or a relevant qualification such as social work or nursing. You will hold a defined caseload of service users with multiple needs and have, or be willing to develop, a specialism within the team. You will provide learning opportunities and act as a point of expertise within your team, sometimes leading multi-disciplinary discussions to support planning, and be capable of representing the service in external meetings to improve pathways with  partner agencies. Whilst not a line management position Advanced Practitioners will form part of the leadership of the team and be key to supporting specific clients with complex needs and workers, particularly those new to the field.

Role Responsibility

• Carry a designated caseload of individuals with complex needs that may include mental health, homelessness, criminality, long term conditions, domestic abuse, sexual exploitation, self harm etc.
• Conduct assessments of need and risk assessments and formulate risk management plans and recovery plans that taken into account the personal recovery goals of the client.
• Effective partnership working with members of any multi-disciplinary team and other agencies and taking on the role of lead professional when appropriate.
• Deliver interventions that are underpinned by a strong evidence base
• Participate in clinical meetings and complex case meeting and be confident and competent at presenting cases orally and through written reports 
• Support the learning and development of Recovery Workers and Trainee Recovery workers, providing specialist input into Multi Disciplinary Meetings
• Provide professional supervision and mentoring to staff to support their development, learning and standards of care
• Being known as an expert in a designated specialism within the service (EG Dual diagnosis, Homelessness/complex needs, mental capacity)
• Delivering seminars/internal learning events and representing Turning Point nationally if required in your specialist area

The Ideal Candidate

Essential:

• Exceptional report writing and case notes.
• Demonstrable experience in working within a substance misuse treatment and recovery setting.
• Specialist interest depth knowledge of one or more complexities alongside substance misuse. This may be mental health, long term conditions, criminality, safeguarding, homelessness, Domestic Violence etc.
• Understanding of risk and risk management, as it applies to substance misuse and complexity.
• Significant experience of working in health and social care.

Desirable:

• RMN; Social Work, psychology or other relevant qualification.

About us

As a leading health and social care provider with more than 300 locations across England, we take real pride in the services we offer.

We run all of our services on a not-for-profit basis; instead, we invest every penny back into our services and people. We never stop believing in change for the better, and we work constantly to improve the lives of the people we support.

What Benefits Will I Receive?

We know reward looks different to each person and so whether its ways to make your money go further, a culture supporting recognition and celebration, or opportunities to boost your career – we want to support you in every way we can with our total reward package that includes:

25 days’ paid holiday a year + Bank Holidays, increasing with each year of service up to 27 days + Bank Holidays. Plus the option to buy additional holidays and spread the cost.

Join our team and discover the comprehensive benefits we offer by following this link to explore all the exciting perks available to our employees. 

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We reserve the right to close this advert early if we are able to appoint to the vacancy before the advertised closed date.

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