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NFO Assertive Outreach Support Workers (Adults) - ADAPT Substance Recovery
Created: 23/09/2024
News/Events Category: Job VacanciesPost: NFO Assertive Outreach Support Workers (Adults)Hours: 36 hours per weekSalary: £25,609.00 per annumThe successful applicants will be responsible for Near Fatal Overdose (NFO) service delivery throughout Fife.
The NFO service offers a shared care model involving the Scottish Ambulance Service, Fife ADP and ADAPT and aims to support vulnerable people through identification and early intervention of near-fatal overdose and associated trauma. Support is also offered for family and friends.
Motivating service users, building and strengthening recovery, supporting engagement and compliance with treatment services, and assisting with any identified health and social needs, is the focus of this approach.
Successful candidates will have experience of working in a caring vocation and a qualification such as COSCA Counselling Skills or SVQ Level II Social Care or similar. They will have good organisation, communication, and IT skills, and can demonstrate an ability to work using their own initiative.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
- As a member of ADAPT’s Near Fatal Overdose (NFO) response service in the community of Fife, you will provide follow-up contact for vulnerable adults referred to the service after a Scottish Ambulance Service call-out involving the administering of Naloxone for drug overdose. The ADAPT NFO service addresses the support and treatment needs of service users who may be at further risk from drug use and may need assistance to access treatment services. Service Users are offered case management, therapeutic and referral support, and crisis/relapse interventions
- The NFO Service is delivered in line with ‘The Quality Principles: Standard Expectations of Care and Support in Drug and Alcohol Services’. Service options may include (but are not limited to):
- Recovery planning with the service user
- Working with significant others/family members
- Triage into treatment including the OST pathway
- Naloxone distribution, training and kit options
- Harm reduction information and limited supply
- Sexual Health and DBST/BBV testing
- Drug and alcohol brief interventions
- Report and record keeping
- Consultation with other professionals regarding client care
- Provide additional Community Active Links & Mentoring (CALM) support as required. CALM is an intensive face-to-face and telephone assistance for service users experiencing a complexity of risk factors that inhibit their ability to engage with services
- Ensure Triage Assessments are forwarded timeously via FORT to enable 90%+ of all Service Users to enter treatment within 21 days of referral date
- Maintain accurate assessment and intervention records in accord with FASS policies and practice
- Liaise with Fife ADP Services including the NHS Fife Addiction Service, also GPs and Primary Care Staff, Social Work and other professionals regarding client care
- Work as member of the ADAPT team, through active participation in staff appraisal, group peer support, regular supervision and through taking responsibility for own Professional Development
- Carry out any other duties that may reasonably be requested
How to apply
Interested applicants should complete the application form and return by e-mail to Sarah White at [email protected]
Successful applicants will be subject to membership of the PVG Scheme
The closing date for applications is Monday 14 October 2024.
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