Support Worker

Location:Magdalene House Exeter
Working Hours:Monday to Friday 37 hours per week
Contract Type:Full-time Permanent
Salary: 25867 - 28930 per annum

Make a real difference in your community

Are you passionate about helping others live safer healthier and more independent lives

Join Waythrough one of the UKs leading mental health and social support charities and make a lasting impact every day.

We support over 125000 people each year through our 200 services empowering individuals to overcome challenges around mental health housing and substance use.

About the Role
As a Support Worker you will work as part of a team to provide recovery-focused support information advice guidance and structured interventions to people with problematic drug and alcohol use. To deliver continuity of care through effective working with partnership agencies and contribute to administrative tasks including the collection and inputting of data. Working alongside Recovery Workers and the wider team to enhance service users experience and offer meaningful interventions such as 1:1 meetings group work clinical appointments daily duty support needle exchange & working alongside our volunteers.

What Youll Do

• 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

• Facilitating group sessions with a range of individuals of varying backgrounds.

• Working with partnership agencies to ensure continuity of care and support.

• Providing duty cover for individuals accessing our services

Please note you do not need a background in substance misuse to apply.

To Succeed in This Role Youll Need:

Were looking for a Support Workerwith a real passion for working in a recovery-focused environment. Youll hold some transferable skills ideally from working in a similar environment or sector. Youll 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

• An understanding of group working group dynamics and group facilitation

• Excellent communication organisation and time management skills

• The ability to work well in a team environment alongside a range of people and organisations

• You must have basic IT skills and know how to use Microsoft Teams

• You must be proficient with Microsoft Word and PowerPoint

• You must hold a full UK Driving Licence