Would you like to make a difference working with service users with problematic substance use?

The Service

The ARCH treatment service, led by Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust (CNWL) is a community substance misuse treatment service that offers a broad range of treatments from different teams, including the WDP Criminal Justice Team.

The Role

• To provide formalised peer support and practical assistance to service users within Arch, specifically those engaged within the criminal justice system.

• Through lived experience of drug/alcohol and/or involvement with the criminal justice system embed recovery values within the service

• To work collaboratively with colleagues and key stakeholder across multi-disciplinary teams, ensuring adherence with all WDP policies and Safeguarding principles

• Provide high quality, person centred, low threshold services, responding to the individual and diverse needs and preferences of our service users and their significant others.

Location

ARCH (Addictions Recovery Community Hillingdon)

Old Bank House

64 High Street

Uxbridge

UB8 1JP

Why should you apply?

• To be an integral contributor in our mission to transform the lives of our service users

• To help enact positive change within the community and wider public space

• Be part of a high-performance team that is focused on quality and welcomes innovation.

• To benefit from our competitive salary and benefits packages and professional development opportunities.

To see the generous range of benefits we offer at WDP – including health and wellbeing initiatives, financial perks and development opportunities – visit our Benefits Package.

Working alongside key partners i.e. existing services, third sector organisations, community groups and individuals, you will support the building of connected and caring communities that can better support bereaved people. Each Community Development Officer will develop and drive the Connecting Communities project, funded by the Co-op, in a specific geographical location.

The ideal candidate will have community development experience and will be confident in working ‘on the ground’ in a community. They will have excellent communication and listening skills and be able to communicate with a diverse range of people. The role requires flexibility in the working hours and willingness to travel widely within the specific project location.

Applicants would benefit from living locally due to the travel requirement for the role.

The Project Manager will work with the Co-op to develop a compassionate communities model specific to bereavement, creating sustainable change and building community and individual resilience in the face of loss. This development will focus on working with four communities in the UK, shaping and piloting interventions and evaluating outcomes.

The ideal candidate will have experience working with local community groups and organisations. They will enjoy working with partners and funders to deliver what local bereaved people need.

They will have previous experience of project management and project evaluation, and managing a team to develop and drive a shared vision. They will have the ability to work flexibly and adapt to shifting priorities.

Would you like to help improve the health and wellbeing of those with drug and alcohol issues?

The Service

Our Rough Sleepers Projects offers Intensive Recovery Outreach and Dedicated Support to Rough Sleepers in Camden & Islington. The project provides coordinated and wrap around care to rough sleepers/street active individuals with substance misuse issues.

(Camden/Islington) This is a great opportunity to be involved with the delivery of a brand-new service and finding the most effective and creative ways to engage with service users with multiple and often complex needs. You will work as part of a dedicated multi-disciplinary outreach team to offer person centred support, and engagement into treatment.

Outreach services

INROADS Camden

INROADS Islington

The Role

We are looking for an individual who is self-motivated, caring, person centred and passionate about supporting people with multiple needs to join our INROADS team. Essential to this role is the drive to support individuals to navigate often complex systems to get the support they need for substance misuse and their mental health condition.

This exciting and rewarding role will provide you with significant scope for growth and innovation within a supportive and friendly multidisciplinary team of clinical and non-clinical professionals.

The main purpose of this role is to provide assertive outreach in order to engage or re-engage with rough sleepers/street active individuals into treatment.

We are seeking committed, organised and highly motivated candidates, with an in-depth knowledge and experience of the challenges affecting people with substance misuse and related health and wellbeing issues.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a new and innovative service making positive changes in service users’ lives, through a non-judgemental, recovery-based approach that values the strengths and choices of those individuals.

Location

Islington and Camden

Why Should You Apply?

• Exciting and innovative field
• Strong performance culture
• To be an integral contributor in our mission to transform the lives of our service users
• To help enact positive change within the community and wider public space
• To benefit from our competitive salary and benefits packages and professional development opportunities and training opportunities

To see the generous range of benefits we offer at WDP – including health and wellbeing initiatives, financial perks and development opportunities – visit our Benefits Package.

WDP is committed to the ongoing professional development of all our staff. Through joining WDP, you will receive a warm welcome, peer support, extensive training, regular supervision and the chance to thrive in a lively and aspirational organisation.

Would you like to help improve the health and wellbeing of those with drug and alcohol issues?

The Service

Our Rough Sleepers Projects offers Intensive Recovery Outreach and Dedicated Support to Rough Sleepers in Camden & Islington. The project provides coordinated and wrap around care to rough sleepers/street active individuals with substance misuse issues.

(Camden/Islington) This is a great opportunity to be involved with the delivery of a brand-new service and finding the most effective and creative ways to engage with service users with multiple and often complex needs. You will work as part of a dedicated multi-disciplinary outreach team to offer person centred support, and engagement into treatment.

Outreach services

INROADS Camden

INROADS Islington

The Role

We are looking for an individual who is self-motivated, caring, person centred and passionate about supporting people with multiple needs to join our INROADS team. Essential to this role is the drive to support individuals to navigate often complex systems to get the support they need for substance misuse and their mental health condition.

This exciting and rewarding role will provide you with significant scope for growth and innovation within a supportive and friendly multidisciplinary team of clinical and non-clinical professionals.

The main purpose of this role is to provide assertive outreach in order to engage or re-engage with rough sleepers/street active individuals into treatment.

We are seeking committed, organised and highly motivated candidates, with an in-depth knowledge and experience of the challenges affecting people with substance misuse and related health and wellbeing issues.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a new and innovative service making positive changes in service users’ lives, through a non-judgemental, recovery-based approach that values the strengths and choices of those individuals.

Location

Islington and Camden

Why Should You Apply?

• Exciting and innovative field
• Strong performance culture
• To be an integral contributor in our mission to transform the lives of our service users
• To help enact positive change within the community and wider public space
• To benefit from our competitive salary and benefits packages and professional development opportunities and training opportunities

To see the generous range of benefits we offer at WDP – including health and wellbeing initiatives, financial perks and development opportunities – visit our Benefits Package.

WDP is committed to the ongoing professional development of all our staff. Through joining WDP, you will receive a warm welcome, peer support, extensive training, regular supervision and the chance to thrive in a lively and aspirational organisation.

Would you like to make a difference working with service users with problematic substance use?

The Service

Working in partnership with Camden & Islington NHS Foundation Trust, WDP is subcontracted to deliver recovery-based services across the London Borough of Kingston.

The Kingston Wellbeing Service is an integrated drug and alcohol treatment and recovery support service that serves adult residents of the Royal Borough of Kingston Upon Thames. Based at the Surbiton Health Centre and operating at locations across the borough, the service is high performing, ambitious and extremely well regarded by stakeholders and the local community.

The Role

We are looking to recruit the following permanent role: Outreach Practitioner (4 days per week – Monday to Friday)

This is an exciting opportunity to act as the first point of contact supporting the homeless population into treatment to address drug and alcohol needs. The post holder will work as part of the Kingston Well-Being Service and will be an integral component of our early engagement provision targeting the homeless population working closely with our local stakeholders to engage, stabilise and where necessary re-engage service users who are misusing substances but not currently actively engaging with our treatment service.

Key requirements of candidates are:

• Passion for and understanding of working with substance misuse services or with other socially excluded or vulnerable groups.
• Proven ability to meet deadlines, record information accurately and in a timely way and to work calmly under pressure.
• Great team working, communication and interpersonal skills.
• Experience of or demonstrable ability to deliver a quality level of service to people with complex needs.

Location

Based at the Surbiton Health Centre and operating at locations across the London Borough of Kingston

Why Should You Apply?

• To be an integral contributor in our mission to transform the lives of our service users
• To help enact positive change within the community and wider public space
• Be part of a high-performance team that is focused on quality and welcomes innovation.
• To benefit from our competitive salary and benefits packages and professional development opportunities

WDP is committed to the ongoing professional development of all our staff. Through joining WDP, you will receive a warm welcome, peer support, extensive training, regular supervision and the chance to thrive in a lively and aspirational organisation.

To see the generous range of benefits we offer at WDP – including health and wellbeing initiatives, financial perks and development opportunities – visit our Benefits Package.

Would you like to work as a recovery practitioner in an established WDP service, and help service users to achieve sustained recovery?

The Service

WDP Harrow is an established community integrated service that is well performing and highly functioning. The service consists of both clinical and psychosocial and is CQC registered to provide a range of clinical interventions including BBV & health interventions, OST, and community detox, as well as robust family and carers and service user involvement provision.

The Role

The Recovery Practitioner will work from the service site and, at times, across the local community, undertaking a wide range of duty and care-coordination functions, working with service users from the first point of contact through to their planned exit from the service following treatment.

We are seeking committed, organised and highly-motivated candidates, with an in-depth knowledge and experience of the challenges affecting people with substance misuse and related health and wellbeing issues.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a thriving service making positive changes in service users’ lives, through a non-judgemental, recovery-based approach that values the strengths and choices of those individuals.

Location

Harrow Recovery Centre is based on Bessborough Road, close to Harrow-on-the-Hill tube station.

Why Should You Apply?

• An opportunity to join one of WDP’s flagship services and contribute to service development.
• Be part of a high-performance team that is focused on quality and welcomes innovation.
• Competitive salary and professional develop opportunities.

WDP is committed to the ongoing professional development of all our staff. Through joining WDP, you will receive a warm welcome, peer support, extensive training, regular supervision and the chance to thrive in a lively and aspirational organisation.

To see the generous range of benefits we offer at WDP – including health and wellbeing initiatives, financial perks and development opportunities – visit our Benefits Package.

Would you like to work closely with a caseload to support service users into substance misuse treatment and their families?

The Service

WDP Harrow is an established community Integrated service that is well performing and highly functioning. The service consists of both clinical and psychosocial and is CQC registered to provide a range of clinical interventions including BBV & health interventions, OST, and community detox, as well as robust family and carers and service user involvement provision.

The Role

As the Safeguarding Families/Safeguarding Adults Recovery Practitioner, you will support parents/carers, children and young people from the Eastern European community, with a specific focus on the Romanian community who are involved in problematic drug and/or alcohol misuse to minimise the impact of this substance misuse on their children. This exciting new role will offer the successful candidate the chance to make a lasting difference to the lives of our service users.

The successful candidate must be committed, hardworking and highly motivated, and have experience of working with substance misuse and related health and well-being issues.

The successful candidate must be committed, hardworking and highly motivated, and have experience of working with substance misuse and related health and well-being issues.

Location

WDP Harrow, Young People’s Substance Misuse Service (Compass) and Harrow Children’s Services

Why Should You Apply?

• The opportunity to work in one of WDPs flagship services.
• You want to positively impact individuals and the wider community
• Exciting and innovative field
• Focused caseload

WDP is committed to the ongoing professional development of all our staff. Through joining WDP, you will receive a warm welcome, peer support, extensive training, regular supervision and the chance to thrive in a lively and aspirational organisation.

To see the generous range of benefits we offer at WDP – including health and wellbeing initiatives, financial perks and development opportunities – visit our Benefits Package.

Would you like to help improve the health and wellbeing of those with drug and alcohol issues?

The Service

WDP Redbridge is an established, integrated community service delivered across several provisions in the Borough. The service consists of both clinical and psychosocial elements and is CQC registered to provide a range of clinical interventions including BBV and health interventions, OST, and community detox, as well as having family and carers and service user involvement provision.

Together we offer a wide range of pharmacological, psychosocial, recovery-orientated, health focused and inpatient interventions that support individuals and their families who wish to receive advice, assessment, and treatment for their drug and/ or alcohol related needs.

WDP Redbridge is an established community service that is well performing and highly functioning. We are a friendly team of professionals who support each other. The service operates Mon- Fri, our core hours 9am to 5pm but there are times where we might need to work occasional evenings or weekends.

About the Role

The post holder will be a dynamic, driven individual who is committed to supporting the local non-opiate and alcohol substance misuse community and their associated needs by:

Making every contact count through motivational interviewing, ITEP mapping, harm reduction, relapse prevention, brief advice and intervention

Promoting recovery in their daily practice in both group and one-to-one settings

Completing comprehensive assessments, risk assessment, risk management and Recovery Care Plans with service users to ensure personalised and recovery-focused treatment journeys

Working in partnership with our clinical and aftercare services, primary care services, Criminal Justice agencies, Outreach services, Young Peoples’ services, treatment providers, service users and the local community

Manage on average a caseload of 50 (although we have no upper limit) at various stages of their recovery.

Location

The role is predominantly based in Ilford Chambers, but at times may involve travel to external meetings and satellites within the borough, and to other WDP locations as needed.

Why should you apply?

• A new challenge working with those with substance misuse
• Specialist role
• Competitive salary

To see the generous range of benefits we offer at WDP – including health and wellbeing initiatives, financial perks and development opportunities – visit our Benefits Package

Job Summary:

Are you looking for the opportunity to grow your practice, leadership and management expertise, while contributing to the development of excellent services?

The Service

Who we are

WDP is a behaviour change charity helping vulnerable people live happy, healthy and independent lives. We support people with issues around substance misuse, mental health and employability. Our unique and award-winning Capital Card® scheme rewards Service Users for making progress with us through positive activities at community “Spend Partners” such as gyms, restaurants, cinemas, sports stadia and colleagues.

Together we offer a wide range of pharmacological, psychosocial, recovery-orientated, health focused and inpatient interventions that support individuals and their families who wish to receive advice, assessment, and treatment for their drug and/ or alcohol related needs.

The role

The Quality and Governance Lead will be responsible for providing support and guidance, and lead on community care assessments and quality improvements. We are looking for a dynamic, motivated, and caring individual with safeguarding experience and an understanding of inpatient and residential treatment processes. A social worker qualification would be an added advantage but is not a mandatory requirement for this role.

Key responsibilities include:

·Lead on inpatient and residential detoxification and rehabilitation placement

·Managing and monitoring safeguarding processes, pathways, and practice.

·Lead on continuous quality improvement and ensure service is compliant with governance and regulatory frameworks

·Coordinate and lead on the management of incident reporting and investigation, notifications, complaints, and complements.

·Lead on practice and service development including implementation of projects within the service provisions

Location

The role is predominantly based Ilford Chambers, and will involve travel to external meetings and satellites within the borough, and to other WDP locations as needed.

Why Should You Apply?

·An opportunity to join one of WDP’s flagship services and contribute to service development.

·Be part of a high-performance team that is focused on quality and welcomes innovation.

·Competitive salary and professional develop opportunities.

To see the generous range of benefits we offer at WDP – including health and wellbeing initiatives, financial perks and development opportunities – visit ourBenefits Package