Specialist Detox Practitioner - #1785518

Job Overview

Working as part of a dedicated team across Leeds, you will provide support and interventions to individuals affected by alcohol use, operating within a range of community settings as well as the Forward Leeds service. This is an exciting opportunity to engage with individuals who may struggle to access or engage with traditional treatment services, helping to address unmet needs within the community.

In this role, you will deliver timely, responsive assessments and work collaboratively with colleagues and professionals from other services to ensure cohesive, person-centred care. Your support will include preparing individuals for alcohol detoxification—whether through residential facilities or community-based detox pathways.

Our goal is to ensure that service users and their families receive coordinated, appropriate care tailored to their individual needs, promoting recovery and improved well-being.

This is an exciting opportunity to help shape detox services in Leeds and make a meaningful impact in the lives of individuals affected by alcohol dependency.

Main duties of the job

• You will work closely with the Team Manager and will be responsible for your own case load of service users.
• You will organise face to face appointments and deliver therapeutic sessions including safe alcohol reduction plans, risk assessments and harm reduction/relapse prevention work.
• You will also link in with GP’s, Healthcare Assistants, Hospital Teams, and Rehab Facilities to work holistically in supporting services users to achieve their planned treatment goals.
• Using your own initiative to identify unmet needs within our service and work collaboratively with partnership agencies.
  
  

You will be fully supported by the Service Manager, Team Manager and Senior Detox Practitioner to deliver positive outcomes for your service users. This role is both exciting and rewarding, you will have access to fantastic learning and development opportunities to help build your skill set and knowledge.

St Annes staff based within Forward Leeds also have the added benefit of access to training and personal development opportunities via the Forward Leeds consortium.

Working for our organisation

St. Anne's wants to reward its employees for their hard work. Employee benefits include;

• Rising 20 to 25 days plus statutory bank holidays
• 24 Hour Employee Assistance Programme
• Continuous opportunities for ongoing training and career development
• Cycle To Work scheme
• Refer A Friend recruitment initiative
• Flexible working opportunities (where applicable) upon successful completion of probation period
• Group Personal Pension Scheme
• Discounted income protection scheme
• Free car parking at most services
• Free life assurance cover
  
  

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

• You will work closely with the Team Manager and will be responsible for your own case load of service users.
• You will organise face to face appointments and deliver therapeutic sessions including safe alcohol reduction plans, risk assessments and harm reduction/relapse prevention work.
• You will also link in with GP’s, Healthcare Assistants, Hospital Teams, and Rehab Facilities to work holistically in supporting services users to achieve their planned treatment goals.
• Using your own initiative to identify unmet needs within our service and work collaboratively with partnership agencies.
  
  

You will be fully supported by the Service Manager, Team Manager and Senior Detox Practitioner to deliver positive outcomes for your service users. This role is both exciting and rewarding, you will have access to fantastic learning and development opportunities to help build your skill set and knowledge.

St Annes staff based within Forward Leeds also have the added benefit of access to training and personal development opportunities via the Forward Leeds consortium.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

You will work closely with the Team Manager and will be responsible for your own case load of service users. You will organise face to face appointments and deliver therapeutic sessions including safe alcohol reduction plans, risk assessments and harm reduction/relapse prevention work. You will also link in with GP’s, Healthcare Assistants, Hospital Teams, and Rehab Facilities to work holistically in supporting services users to achieve their planned treatment goals. Using your own initiative to identify unmet needs within our service and work collaboratively with partnership agencies. You will be fully supported by the Service Manager, Team Manager and Senior Detox Practitioner to deliver positive outcomes for your service users.

This role is both exciting and rewarding, you will have access to fantastic learning and development opportunities to help build your skill set and knowledge.

All staff are expected to take reasonable steps to ensure they complete all mandatory training requirements for their role and to ensure training is kept up to date.

Training and development is vitally important in ensuring that St. Anne’s has good quality, high performing staff to deliver services to the people we support. We have an extensive in-house training programme which helps us maintain and enhance the competencies of all staff.

St Annes staff based within Forward Leeds also have the added benefit of access to training and personal development opportunities via the Forward Leeds consortium.

Person specification

Detox Worker

Essential criteria

• 1 Year Experience
  
  

Desirable criteria

• 2 Years Experience
  
  

St. Anne’s is working to actively promote equality, diversity and inclusion.

We want people from underrepresented groups such as disabled, black and ethnic minority, Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans, and non-binary (LGBTQ+) communities to apply for all our roles.

St. Anne's is a Disability Confident employer. We are actively working to recruit and retain people with disabilities and long-term health conditions into our work force. If you are an applicant who has a disability, you will be offered an interview if you meet the essential criteria for the job. Please contact recruitment on 0113 243 5151 opt 3 if you require any reasonable adjustments.

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Applicant requirements

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

• Specialist Detox Practitioner (PDF, 360.6KB)
  
  

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name Sam Lindley Job title Team Manager Email address [email protected] Additional information

Roger Brearley - [email protected]