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Intense Support Worker– Chalmers Court

  • Full time
  • £20,884 – £21,967
  • South Ayrshire
  • Closing 21st May 2021


  • Advertised from 7th May 2021
  • pay award pending. 35 hours per week. Temporary for one year
  • CHCISW0521

Role

An exciting opportunity has arisen to be part of an outreach, intense support service, which will be run in partnership with South Ayrshire Council’s ADP. This will initially be for one year, although it is hoped that this will be extended at the end of this period.

The position will be an intensive recovery support role based within four supported accommodation services in the South Ayrshire area and supporting service users referred by South Ayrshire Council.

The service users will come from the harder to engage group, and be affected by addictions.

You should be a highly motivated individual with lived experience, and with the skills to hit the ground running.

You will provide early intervention and a range of supports for new referrals and existing residents in the South Ayrshire Supported Accommodation Services; work collaboratively with existing services; increase engagement in addiction and community support services; deliver recovery groups, one to one work, drop in services, elements of street work; reduce barriers to support; identify / create faster routes to services through positive and collaborative partnership working; develop recovery resilience by providing support to empower individuals to forge strong social connections which enable their sustainment of focused recovery from long term addictions; help individuals to repair and build positive social networks and relationships at the right pace for them; accompany individuals to key, essential appointments relating to addictions and mental health where required; promote harm reduction and prevent overdoses, and maintain accurate records for monitoring purposes.

This is a great opportunity to further develop your skills and experience.

The post will be 35 hours per week and although it may mainly be working within office hours you must have the flexibility to work in the evenings if and when required and on occasional weekend’s dependant on service user’s needs.

If successful, you will be required to register with the Scottish Social Services Council within 6 months of your start date. After registration, there is a requirement to be qualified and to maintain professional learning.

In return, we will offer you excellent learning and development opportunities, competitive annual leave entitlement, pension scheme, access to employee assistance programmes such as counselling and life assurance.

Application notes

The closing date for submission of completed application forms is 12 noon on Friday 21 May 2021

Forms can be submitted electronically to recruitment@btha.org.uk or by post to Blue Triangle (Glasgow) Housing Association, 3rd Floor, 100 Berkeley Street, Glasgow G3 7HU.


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