Location
Southampton | United Kingdom
Job description
Change Grow Live are a charity dedicated to the belief that we can make a difference to our Service Users lives. Our core values are ‘Be open, be compassionate and be bold’ and our teams apply these daily, offering support and respect in a safe environment, treating each user as an individual and working with them to find the right treatment and care options.
We are looking for a dedicated and passionate Healthcare Assistant to join our team in the Southampton Drug and Alcohol Service, t he post holder will pro-actively assist in the delivery of comprehensive interventions aimed at improving health & wellbeing for service users across the service and contribute to ensure that substance users across Southampton receive consistent high quality services that adhere to the best practice guidelines and achieve high professional standards.
The Healthcare assistant role is a varied one, the successful candidate will be an integral member of a multidisciplinary team, supporting with specialist clinical interventions to people who use our services.
This job role is not supported through sponsorship as it is only part time.
Where: Southampton
Hours: 18.75h per week
Salary : £23,525.95 - £25,106.61 Pro Rata (CGL Scale 19-21) Depending on experience
About the role:
- Working closely with your Nursing team to develop pathways to care
- Support service users in opiate and alcohol interventions.
- You will support on harm reduction interventions along with physical and mental health assessments.
- Keeping the people who use our services at the heart of everything you do
- Undertake initial physical and mental health screening for people who use our services
- Assist and carry out appropriate toxicology screening processes including urine and saliva tests.
- Provide education, health promotion and screening for blood borne viruses
- Support community alcohol detoxification either at the service or at the service user’s home.
- Maintain required standards of infection control and hygiene as per Change Grow Live policies and procedures.
- Understand and adhere to the legislation surrounding the use of PSDs
About you:
- Good interpersonal skills and a willingness to work flexibly as part of a team
- Experience of working within substance misuse or a social care setting would be an advantage but not essential
- A clear understanding of the need for and ability to deliver quality services
- Good organisational skills
- Knowledge of harm reduction and health promotion interventions.
- Confidence to work on own initiative as well as part of the team
- Communicate confidently and effectively, verbally and in writing
- Respond flexibly to the demands of the post
What we will give to you:
- 25 days holiday (+ bank holidays) rising by 1 day for each years’ service “Capped at 30 days”
- Paid ‘Wellness’ hour each week along with a ‘Wellness’ hub and Employee Assist Programme
- Contributory pension scheme
- A great selection of benefits incl. discounts for shopping, cinema, holidays, etc
- A friendly and supportive team Training, career development & progression opportunities
- Refer a friend scheme and receive £250 in vouchers if candidate is successful.
Please read attached Job Description and Role Specifics for a more detailed outline of responsibilities and Person Specification
If this sounds like you and you’d like to begin your journey with Change Grow Live, then we’d love to talk to you.
CGL points 18 to 21 (£23,685.20 - £26,110.87)
N/A - Outside London Weighting Area
14/3/2024
Abi Jones |
[email protected] This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at an enhanced level.
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£23.53k - £25.11k per annum
