Recovery Practitioner

What you'll be doing As an alcohol Recovery Practitioner, you will be working within a team of practitioners, a Team leader a nurse, medics, a care coordinator, assertive outreach workers and admin staff. You will manage a caseload of mix complexity alcohol clients. You will effectively manage your time workload and diary and ensure that the best quality of care and support is provided for those seek support from the service. Your role will give you autonomy to work without direct supervision however, support and guidance will always be available if you need it. On a day-to-day basis you will begin your day by attending a service wide flash meeting following this you might see clients on a face to face basis either at the Lighthouse alcohol service, a GP practise at the clients home or at a community venue. You will be offering support and encouragement, to develop care plans and risk assessments. You will support your clients towards their treatment goals that might be alcohol detoxification or to engage in a drink down plan. You will work closely with your clients and develop aftercare packages that focus on effective re integration back into the community when their treatment is complete. You will work with other supporting agencies within the Blackpool area such as GP surgeries, The probation service, adult social care, The Shelter and housing support to provide wrap around support for your clients. You will be required to be a duty worker at times where you will meet new clients and assess their needs in treatment. This will require you to be able to offer harm minimisation advise, to be able to effectively communicate with the service user and promote positive change. You will be proactive, and solution focused and be able to develop effective plans of support whist respectively maintaining the clients views and wishes. You will be required to work alongside a alcohol detox nurse and prescribing medics for the client who will be detoxing in the community. you will be required to complete applications for in patience detoxification and in some cases to source appropriate rehabilitation ready for post detoxification. A large part of your role will include coordinating care and support which will require you to source the most appropriate support available form our own organisations intervention and possibly from the wider community programmes. As the service is fast passed you will need to be able to recognise priorities and coordinate tasks to meet the demands. The role will require you to be flexible dynamic and solution focused. The role will require you to be able to work as a team and on your own initiative at times. Your hours of work will be 37.5 hours per week, Monday - Friday 9am-5pm over 5 day There may be opportunity for additional hours including late evenings and Saturday working.