Substance Misuse Early Intervention Worker

Raven Medical Staffing are currently recruiting for a Substance Misuse Early Intervention Worker to work with Enfield Council. This is based on a 3 to 6 month contract, working 35 hours per week.

Overview:

• Increase awareness of substance misuse through the universal delivery of information, advice and guidance to support young people in making informed and healthy choices.
• Deliver targeted support to young people who are at risk of substance misuse, or already engaged in substance misuse, aimed at helping them to reduce or stop their substance misuse and minimising the associated harms.
• Undertake substance misuse screening as appropriate and make referrals to Insight Enfield Sort It! ensuring continuity of care for the young person by supporting their treatment commencing with the substance misuse treatment service.
• Be able to provide structured care planned interventions to a small caseload of young people engaged with the Youth Development Service who require treatment but refuse a referral to Insight Enfield Sort It! The expectation is this will be small caseload of approximately 7 young people as the preferred approach to treatment is a referral to Insight Enfield Sort It! As part of this the post holder will need to report treatment caseload data to the National Drug Treatment Monitoring System.
• The definition of young people’s substance misuse treatment is ‘Young people’s specialist substance misuse treatment is a care planned medical, psychosocial or specialist harm reduction intervention aimed at alleviating current harm caused by a young person’s substance misuse’ NDTMS Young People’s Treatment Business Definitions, PHE.
• Support young people who are in receipt of substance misuse support to access Youth Development Service activities and opportunities as part of their intervention and upon exiting support.
• Experience increasing awareness of substance misuse through the universal delivery of information, advice, and guidance to support young people in making informed and healthy choices.
• The expectation is this will be small caseload of approximately 7 young people as the preferred approach to treatment is a referral to Insight Enfield Sort It! As part of this the post holder will need to report treatment caseload data to the National Drug Treatment Monitoring System.  
• Be able to support young people who are in receipt of substance misuse support to access Youth Development Service activities and opportunities as part of their intervention and upon exiting support.
• Experience undertaking substance misuse screening as appropriate, referring to treatment services and ensuring continuity of care for the young person by supporting their treatment commencing with the substance misuse treat

Requirements: A qualification in Youth Work or equivalent to NVQ Level 3 or other relevant professional qualification. The candidate will need to be flexible and available to work during school hours, evenings, weekends and holiday periods.

If the above position is of interest, simply apply now through CVLibrary! Should you wish to discuss further, please contact Jake Singh at Raven Medical Recruitment.

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