Specialist Alcohol Recovery Worker

Are you committed to making a positive change and empowering service users to achieve a better quality of life?
We have an exciting opportunity for a passionate and caring individual to join our Specialist Alcohol Service within Inclusion Recovery Hampshire, supporting people who use alcohol in making positive changes to their alcohol use.
In this role, you will utilise all of your expertise in providing a high quality service and care to your own caseload of service users, this includes being responsible for offering a range of interventions, care planning, assessments and supporting service users through their treatment journey and recovery ambitions - from beginning to end. The role will also involve outreach work in the local community and in-reach to those in hospital.
Working as part of our dedicated and multi-disciplinary team and alongside our prescribers, you will offer health support via testing clinics for blood borne viruses (BBVs), embracing the concept of recovery and keeping up-to-date and accurate records and documentation.
APPLICATIONS WILL ONLY BE CONSIDERED FROM EXTERNAL CANDIDATES, OR INTERNAL CANDIATES WHOSE ROLE IS AT RISK (if you are unsure if this applies to you, please discuss with your line manager), Full-time 12 month Fixed Term Specialist Alcohol Recovery Worker (working 37.5 hours per week) across the South of Hampshire.
Provision of primarily alcohol treatment to Service Users within the locality.
Holding a caseload of service users and being responsible for offering a range of interventions to those individuals.
Supporting service users through their treatment journey from beginning to end
Embracing the concept of recovery and demonstrating this in your clinical work
Ensuring that your work is evidence based, up to date and in accordance with current policy and legislation.
Keeping up to date and accurate records and documentation.
Where required, supporting the wider team with duty or caseload management., Delivery of harm minimisation interventions and advice
- facilitating safe reduction plans
- liaison with health care professionals
- conducting home visits
- supporting referrals to inpatient units or facilitating home detoxes
- creating holistic care plans, identify and manage risks accordingly.
- Caseload management

Inclusion, created in 2002 is part of the Specialist Services Care Group of Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT). We provide caring and effective services across England, including, West Yorkshire, West Midlands, East Midlands, West Mercia, Thames Valley, Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Thurrock, Essex. We support individuals, families and communities who are affected by addiction, crime, mental health or need treatment for their sexual health.
We believe that the individuals and families who use our services should receive high quality, committed and inclusive care, realising all the benefits a modern NHS organisation can provide. We work with patients and our staff teams to achieve the best outcomes we can. We invest heavily in training and development, and the wellbeing of our people, both staff and service users is central to who we are.
Here at MPFT, we are proud of the comprehensive wellbeing and lifestyle support offer available, in addition to in-house training and coaching support. Our services are robustly governed, evidence-based, inclusive, and designed and provided in conjunction with service users. We are committed to providing the best service we can, and if you share our values, we want you on our team!