Job Location : Dover, UK
Outreach Practitioner Motivator
Location: East Kent Regional
Salary: £24,000 per annum
Are you passionate about helping people and looking for a new challenge?
Do you want to work for a company where you are valued and be a person who can make a difference?
We are The Forward Trust (formerly RAPt and Blue Sky), the social enterprise with charitable status that empowers people to break the often-interlinked cycles of crime and addiction to move forward with their lives. For more than 25 years we have been working with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past. We believe that anyone is capable of lasting change. Our services have supported thousands of people to make positive changes and build productive lives with a job, family, friends and a sense of community.
We believe and are committed to providing opportunities to all people including those with 'Lived Experience’ we encourage applications from all background including those in recovery from addiction, co-dependency or gambling, have experience of previous offending or homelessness.
What you will be doing
You will be required to provide motivational outreach interventions to dependent, entrenched service users and dependent individuals, reluctant to access frontline services. You will actively promote harm reduction and overdose prevention. You will also oversee and co-ordinate the Trust’s Naloxone Peer to Peer project across East Kent.
You will be responsible for contributing to the targets set by Forward and the local commissioners. One of the key targets will be measuring outcomes, so co-operative working relationships with other partner agencies is vital to this role.
Flexibility and creativity will be required in this role, this may include reasonable notice to travel to other projects in the East Kent region to deliver services, enabling continuity of care for the client group.
What we are looking for
We are looking for motivated, self-driven and passionate individuals to work with our client group and support them on their way to recovery. The skills and experience listed below is desirable but not essential as we offer robust induction and ongoing training programme to develop our workforce.
What we offer
To Apply
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