We have an exciting dynamic opportunity for a
Hospital Liaison Worker to join us working between the Together recovery service and local hospitals.
About the role… Using a caring, compassionate and trauma informed approach you will be engaging with individuals who have been admitted to hospital and have a substance use support need. You will deliver a range of interventions including advice, harm reduction and structured psycho-social interventions. You will work closely alongside colleagues within the hospital to ensure that appropriate support is offered to all those in need.
Day to day duties include:
- Attending hospital ward rounds and maintaining good communication with hospital staff.
- Responding to hospital liaison referrals from within the hospital.
- Delivering interventions to clients face-to-face and over the phone.
- Working autonomously to manage a caseload of our service users, including delivering a range of psychosocial interventions.
- Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team to undertake ongoing assessments, risk assessments, and appropriate referrals within the community
About you We’re looking for an empathic, caring and organised individual with a real passion for working in a trauma informed and recovery focused environment. You’ll hold some transferable skills, ideally from working in a similar environment or sector, however, full training and support will be offered.
You’ll also have:
- A knowledge and understanding of substance misuse and recovery
- Experience of managing, planning, and prioritising your own workload, delivering work of a high standard
- An understanding of safeguarding
- Excellent communication, organisation and time management skills
- The ability to work well in a team environment alongside a range of people and organisations
Location: Torbay Hospital, Torquay, Devon & Templar House, Newton Abbot, Devon Job Purpose The post will work within the Together integrated alcohol and other drug service to establish a high quality hospital liaison service for patients; ensuring and providing appropriate assessments, interventions and co-developing multi-agency discharge plans and pathways to reduce relapse and hospital readmission.
Based within the local hospital, the post will ensure effective communication with relevant hospital departments (e.g. Mental Health, Hepatology & Gastroenterology, A&E, Maternity) and externally with Together and other community services (e.g. GPs, outreach, housing and community justice services).
The post will provide advice, guidance and training to healthcare professionals in recognition, treatment & management of alcohol and other drug related problems, including the delivery of brief interventions.
The post will be based primarily within Torbay Hospital.
This vacancy will be closed as soon as sufficient applications have been received. To view the full job description and person specification for this role, please
click here. Please be advised, if you are viewing this role on Indeed, the link to the job description will not work. Please click the 'Apply via Company Website' button to be redirected to our careers page, where you will be able to view the job description in full. ‘The salary advertised above demonstrates the full earning potential for this role, starting salaries will allow for pay progression within the pay band alongside our excellent benefits’ Who are we… Humankind is one of England’s most successful home-grown charities. We provide free, confidential support for alcohol, drugs, housing, or mental health in friendly local places across the UK. We are committed to fair chances for all and making sure everyone can access the help and support they need to realise their potential. By joining our teams of passionate individuals, you will be contributing to making this happen. You can really make a difference by believing in our service users and their ability to make positive changes when they don’t always believe in themselves.
We are incredibly proud of the work that we do to help address health inequalities in England. Every five minutes, an individual accesses one of our services, and we have supported over 90,000 people across all our services last year. Check out our impact report
here to read more about the important work that we have done.
What can Humankind offer you…
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Generous annual leave entitlement (27 days, plus bank holidays, increasing to 32 after 1 years’ service)
Annual leave purchase scheme
Enhanced occupational sick pay
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Enhanced employer contribution to your workplace pension
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Blue light card discount
Fantastic learning and development opportunities, including free training courses
Work-life balance- flexible working and family friendly policies
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Happy, Healthy You! – our wellbeing offers for our workforce
Employee Assist Programme and Humankind Support Networks
Humankind is an equal opportunities employer We value unique perspectives and experiences that everyone can bring, and fully understand the strength in diversity and inclusion. We encourage applications from all backgrounds, regardless of race, gender, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, or disability. If you have a genuine passion for working for us, we want to hear for you. We also welcome applications from people with lived experience with substance use. If you require support with your application, please contact the Recruitment Team at
people.recruitment@humankindcharity.org.uk
