We are recruiting on behalf of our Client UKAT...
UKAT is the UK’s leading Addiction Rehab Centre provider. Our purpose is to provide excellent care and treatment to enable all those suffering from addictive disorders to achieve a goal of life-long recovery.
We treat addiction as an illness, not a life choice and ensure that all our practitioners are highly trained and motivated to enable individuals to embark on a life-changing process.
Reporting into the Centre Manager, this is a role for somebody who is solution-focused, compassionate, and able to form great working relationships.
You’ll be ensuring the day-to-day provision of a high-quality support programme to substance misusing clients’, families and the community.
Main Responsibilities:
- Undertake all duties and responsibilities in accordance with: company policies, procedures, protocols, guidelines, standards; good professional practice and the company’s QA strategy, CQC and other regulatory requirements, relevant legislations, all legal and contractual obligations.
- Oversee and or conduct effective intake, assessment and discharge interventions.
- Assist the therapeutic team to carry out accurate, complete and timely risk management planning and reviews in conjunction with external third parties where appropriate.
- Ensure clients observe the programme’s rules and support the manager in investigating and taking action where these may have been breached including substance testing.
- Provide advice, information and support to clients including referral to aftercare services that focus on maintaining an abstinent lifestyle.
- Oversee the maintenance of accurate client records and databases and provide statistics for management and to assist with service evaluation in a timely fashion.
- Assist in the transfer of individuals between agencies and services.
- Support clients with the prompting of their medication, conduct accurate and timely medication audits and maintain accurate medication records.
- Work with clients to produce appropriate and achievable recovery plans to help them address their identified needs.
- Ensure residents attend external appointments in line with their care plan by supporting them to access transport or accompanying them if necessary.
- Safeguarding of clients
*The above is not an exhaustive list of duties that you may be required to undertake *