Community Substance Misuse Worker

An opportunity has arisen within the Community Drug and Alcohol team for a Community Substance Misuse Worker to join a developing substance misuse team within the Ceredigion locality, based in Aberystwyth., The post holder will act as care manager for the caseload and any significant change in circumstances that may result in increased risk to the service user or their significant others must be discussed in the appropriate forum. This will include:

Comprehensive assessment of the service user's substance misuse problem including their health and wellbeing needs and level of motivation to change

Agreeing a care plan /aftercare / discharge plan with the service user that may include other professionals or onward referral as appropriate.

Implementation and review of the care plan and associated evaluation in line with service and Health Board policy

Consideration of the needs of significant others and the opportunity to engage them in the care plan.

Joint working with partner agencies and contributing the treatment and clinical components of the agreed care plan where the service user is subject to a treatment order through the courts

The post holder must at all times respect the rights, dignity and interests of service users.

They should treat all individuals equitably, and must not discriminate on grounds of Age, Sex, Disability, Gender re-assignment, Marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, Race, Religion or belief, Sexual orientation against service users, colleagues, or anyone else with whom they have dealings in the course of their work.

We are looking for an individual who has experience of working with substance misuse and can demonstrate core and specific competencies related to tier 3 substance misuse work or who is keen to develop their skills and experience within a tier 3 substance misuse service.

Experience in the assessment and treatment of service users with opiate dependency would be an advantage as well as a good working knowledge of harm reduction approaches and managing prescribing regimes within a recovery focused treatment framework.

Hywel Dda University Health Board is the planner and provider of NHS healthcare services for people in Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire and its bordering counties. Our 11,000 members of staff provide primary, community, in-hospital, mental health and learning disabilities services for around 384,000 people across a quarter of the landmass of Wales. We do this in partnership with our three local authorities and public, private and third sector colleagues, including our volunteers, through:

Four main hospitals: Bronglais General in Aberystwyth, Glangwili General in Carmarthen, Prince Philip in Llanelli and Withybush General in Haverfordwest;

Seven community hospitals: Amman Valley and Llandovery in Carmarthenshire; Tregaron, Aberaeron and Cardigan in Ceredigion; and Tenby and South Pembrokeshire Hospital Health and Social Care Resource Centre in Pembrokeshire;

48 general practices (four of which are managed practices), 47 dental practices (including three orthodontic), 99 community pharmacies, 44 general ophthalmic practices (43 providing Eye Health Examination Wales and 34 low vision services) and 17 domiciliary only providers and 11 health centres