Adferiad Recovery delivers a flexible and coordinated response to the exceptional circumstances faced by people with co-occurring mental health and substance use conditions and related issues. Vulnerable people facing complex life challenges need consistent and seamless support to ensure they remain engaged with vital health and wellbeing services – and to prevent them becoming disenfranchised and isolated.
Hours: 30 hours per week, 4 days Mon – Fri, 9am – 5pm
Salary: £24,245.10 per annum (pro rata)
Based at: Neath Port Talbot
Provisional interview date for this vacancy is Monday, 23rd September 2024.
Role Purpose:
To deliver services to substance users to help reduce the harm caused by their substance use. To ensure individuals in crisis are supported within the Adferiad Recovery agency. The role will involve delivering a comprehensive support package, which may include advice and awareness sessions, health promotion, initial assessments, structured individual support, and access to wrap-around services, such as diversionary activities. To ensure that injecting drug users have access to information and advice on safer practices, and to sterile injecting equipment and contributing to the drop-in service including facilitating a Needle and Syringe Programme.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
If you think you might have these skills, but are not 100% sure, please do still apply and let us decide. We know that certain groups rule themselves out of interesting opportunities assuming that others will be more successful, but please don't be that person. We want to hear from the widest cross section of the community.
Adferiad Recovery welcomes applications from everyone with the right to work in the UK, and values diversity in the workplace. All employees are required to act inclusively to encourage, promote, and cultivate our values. (Such as rights affirming and cultural diversity).
Working towards becoming a Rights Affirming organisation, we actively encourage applications from people where the Person Specification calls for a particular qualification or experience, we will consider waiving these requirements if an applicant who could not achieve them because of a disability can demonstrate he/she would be capable of performing well in the job and fulfils the criteria in other respects.
FOR MORE INFORMATION A FULL PERSON SPECIFICATION AND HOW TO APPLY, PLEASE GO TO OUR WEBSITE: https://adferiadrecovery.peoplehr.net/Pages/JobBoard/Opening.aspx?v=82bd1f5e-57b6-447e-afbe-27dc830fd559
If you have difficulty accessing this information or would like it in a different format, please contact our recruitment team at recruitment@adferiad.org or 01492 863005
How to apply
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