Job Title: Substance Misuse Recovery Worker
Agency: North London NHS Foundation Trust
Location: London, United Kingdom
Salary/Rate: 36,943 – 44,900 £ / Year

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Job Summary

The Substance Misuse Recovery Worker (Band 5) role is based within Enable’s Enfield service and focuses on delivering holistic, strength-based support to people experiencing homelessness and multiple disadvantages who are affected by drug and alcohol use. The postholder manages a caseload of individuals with complex needs, providing assessment, care planning, harm reduction interventions, and coordinated recovery support across community and outreach settings.

The role involves close multidisciplinary working and partnership engagement with health, housing, criminal justice, and voluntary sector agencies to promote engagement, reduce risk, and improve outcomes. Practice is underpinned by trauma-informed, non-judgemental approaches, with a strong emphasis on safeguarding, harm reduction (including OST, needle exchange, and Naloxone), and supporting service users towards improved health, stability, and independence

Main duties of the job

• To work as an effective member of the multidisciplinary team, actively participating in team meetings, group supervision and clinical team meetings
• To manage a caseload of service users with complex needs, completing comprehensive assessments, risk management and treatment plans, as well as co-produced care plans with service users.

• To work with service users who are in Opioid Substitute treatment, substitute and non opiate. This includes testing service users for illicit drug use, liaising with pharmacies regarding dispensing and supervised consumption, GP liaison and producing/issuing prescriptions under the supervision of a medical prescriber.

• To adhere to local safeguarding protocols to safeguard children and vulnerable adults. including the completion of safeguarding assessment tools, referrals to social services, and producing reports
• To work effectively with partner agencies and other professionals to ensure a joined-up approach to treatment and care planning
• Able to work flexibly according to the needs of the service, i.e., facilitating late evening and contributing to the Duty rota.

How to Apply;

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