Community Integration Worker
Merchants Quay Ireland
- Wicklow South Dublin
- €33,860 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- To target, engage and establish a relationship with local drug and/or alcohol users with a view to setting up a care-planning and key working relationship
- Carry out comprehensive initial assessments with clients to establish their support needs
- To appropriately risk assess and engage in one-to-one/lone working/group facilitation where appropriate.
- Provide psycho-social support for persons leaving drug and/or alcohol treatment services/prison or moving from one point on the continuum of care to another
- Have an individual integrated care plan which is based on a comprehensive assessment of client needs, with appropriate treatment, rehabilitation and recovery goals, agreed with the client
- Provide a range of reintegration and aftercare supports targeting clients from the region including those exiting drug and/or alcohol treatment programmes or exiting prison
- Provide education, information, advocacy and treatment support to clients and their families as required
- Support clients who are engaging with a detoxification programme
- Formulate and implement a referral pathway and plan for those transitioning from the service
- Create referral pathways and contribute to an inter-agency approach to working with clients
- Establish and deliver supportive group-work and activity based sessions
- Ensure service users are case managed as they move through the continuum of care
- Support service users through the process of regaining their capacity for daily life from the impact of problem drug and /or alcohol use and reintegrating into their communities
- Provide care and support that offer both a harm reduction and recovery ethos reflecting a person centred approach to care
- Work closely with community, voluntary and statutory services to ensure that service users can access support in relation to other needs i.e. housing, employment and education etc
- To be responsible for working in partnership with other agencies to maximise benefits that can be achieved for individuals and families by utilising wider resources and support networks that are available locally
- Liaise with and refer clients to other services, using a multidisciplinary approach
- Arranging regular one to one meetings with clients, creating and reviewing care plans, setting, closing and revising goals where appropriate
- Maximizing client agencyby ensuring that their goals are central to all care plan objectives.
- To support and encourage clients to provide feedback on service provision in order to inform policy and services
- Produce standard monthly and quarterly reports for the Service Co-Ordinator and/or Manager of Day Services in line with funding agencies requirements and compile any ad hoc information requests as required
- Compile and report on complaints and compliments received as required
- Responsible for ensuring that statistics/data are kept updated on the CRM system at all times and provide reports to the Service Co-Ordinator in keeping with all required deadlines and on an ad hoc basis as required
- Responsible for maintaining a complete, accurate and up to date record for each treatment episode on the HRB on-line web based system
- Ensuring client care-plans are created and updated as care-plan progresses or changes
- To support the development and implementation of the ECRDATF substance misuse treatment and rehabilitation strategy in collaboration with key stakeholders in the community, voluntary and statutory sector
- To oversee the support and supervise to volunteers and placements in the East Coast service
- To work with the HR Department in relation to all HR processes including recruitment, performance management, disciplinary processes etc.
- Comply with all verification visits by funding agencies
- To support and participate in all audits and/or evaluations
- To comply with all requirements in relation to all the appropriate paperwork for the service such as client files, accident reports, service user complaints, minutes of meetings etc
- To communicate effectively and to maintain appropriate accountability to the Service Co-Ordinator/ Manager Day Services
- Keep up to date with developments in the East Coast region
- Attend and participate in relevant committees as advised by the Service Co-Ordinator
- In conjunction with the Service Co-Ordinator to continuously develop the role to ensure that all aspects of the service are managed effectively and in line with service requirements
- To become familiar with and ensure that all MQI's policies and procedures are being adhered to particularly those relating to Health & Safety, HR, Confidentiality, Boundaries and staff code of conduct etc.
- Undertake any other duties as assigned by the Service Co-Ordinator/Manager Day Service and his/her nominee.
- Have a relevant qualification (minimum QQI Level 7 or equivalent) e.g. social care, addiction, or be currently working towards achieving this qualification. Motivational Interviewing (MI) or Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) qualifications are a distinct advantage
- Have a minimum of 2 years relevant employed work experience in addiction, community development, health & social care, education or related fields.
- Experience of key working, case management and group facilitation
- Have an understanding of the current National Drugs Strategy, Substance Misuse Strategy, National Drug Rehabilitation Framework, logic model reporting, QUADS and/or Safer Better Healthcare (SBHC) Standards
- As this is a mobile post candidates must have a full driver's licence.