Outreach Support Worker - Drug & Alcohol Misuse

Tezlom are recruiting a SupportWorker who can provide people with flexible packages of support and have experience working with substance abuse.

The service can provide a variety of supported living arrangements, including: individual homes, shared supported houses and extra care services and within the community.

As a Support Worker some of the duties will include:

• Developing domestic and life skills (house-keeping, shopping, cooking, cleaning, personal care etc.);
• Giving medication;
• Delivering excellent drug and alcohol services to service users and their significant others, including family members friends and carers, to facilitate positive outcomes.
• Managing a case load, coordinating, and delivered assessment and evidence-based interventions (brief and structured), recovery planning and aftercare planning.
• Managing their money, including paying bills;
• Support to attend college, work placements and other activities;
• Accompaniment to appointments;
• Socialising and meeting new people;
• Help accessing other services;
• Travel training;
• Keeping safe and healthy; and
• Filling out forms; and much more.

However, it is important to remember that this is not a complete list and there will be people needing support who do not fit neatly into these groups.

As a Support Worker you will need to focus on getting to know people - how they want to be supported, what they want to achieve in life and what is important to them - to offer support that is as individual as they are.

Apply today and will contact you as soon as possible to discuss the role further.