We have a full time vacancy based at our Worthing site.

You will be required to operate within a recovery focused Community Drug and Alcohol team, manage a caseload and provide day to day care coordination and interventions in line with the recovery agenda.

You should possess the necessary experience and knowledge that will facilitate on going change and successful outcomes and be creative and innovative in your approach.

The Cornwall Community Services are currently looking to recruit full and part time Recovery Coordinators to join their North and East team. Full time staff will be required to work 37.5 hours per week, 5 days over on a rota basis. Part time staff will be required to work 22.5 hours per week, 3 days over on a rota basis. The rota runs from Sunday to Saturday. The full time equivalent salary range on offer is: £19,518-£22,247 pro rata.

Working as a part of our North and East team you will be there to assist in the delivery of an integrated service across all localities. Acting as both supporter and facilitator, you'll provide support and information as well as drawing up action plans for individuals to assist them through and beyond the challenges they face, and work with them to make positive changes.

You'll need to have excellent listening skills, balanced with a team-oriented and proactive attitude, as well as demonstratable experience in a health, social care or criminal justice setting.

The closing date for this vacancy is Monday 27th May 2013.

To read further and apply please click on the link below.

Addaction Scotland is growing to become one of the biggest providers of drug and alcohol services in the country. To meet this growth, we are looking for an experienced Regional Manager to ensure that we continue to provide high quality and high impact services.

Our aim is to ensure that people and families affected by substance misuse have access to the highest quality services to assist them in their recovery journeys. You will provide leadership and will work closely with the other members of the Addaction Scotland management team to help deliver this aim.

You will bring with you a proven track record of managing a substance misuse or comparable service.

You will have excellent interpersonal skills and have the ability to manage and sustain effective relationships within and outside of Addaction.

You will also assist in developing services and helping Addaction Scotland to grow.

The location for this post would preferably be Glasgow, Edinburgh or Dundee.

Please note that any internal candidates at risk of redundacy will be given priority.

We currently have an opportunity for a Data Officer to join our North and East Cornwall team. This is a permanent part time role over 18.75 hours a week Monday to Friday. We are able to offer a salary starting at £18,739 pro rata for the right candidate (£9,369 actual).

This is an interesting and varied role that would suit someone who has excellent planning, time management and analytic skills. The role will involve collecting and collating information and producing various reports. You will also be required to develop and maintain data managements systems in the area. If you are looking for a new challenge and this sounds like the right opportunity for you please click below for more details about this role.

As a casual worker with Young Addaction Bucks you will be part of a team that provides projects across the County either centre based or as part of the mobile bike project. You will be flexible and available to work in the evenings. You will have had some experience of working with young people.

You will have good communication and listening skills, be organised and a good team worker.

We are seeking three enthusiastic and professional managers to join our team within the North East Secure Estates.

You’ll have experience of managing multi-disciplinary teams, knowledge of the secure estate, knowledge of the recovery agenda and knowledge of health and safety, including assessing high-risk situations for service users

You’ll have experience of working in partnership with a range of statutory and non-statutory agencies, knowledge of national policy relating to the recovery orientated treatment system. You’ll have excellent administration skills including IT skills & awareness linked to Windows 2000 driven software, monitoring and evaluation skills, excellent written and oral communication skills, presentation skills and negotiating and influencing skills.

You’ll be part of a motivated professional and compassionate team. In return we will offer you up to £31,045 per annum, 28 days Annual Leave each year, company pension scheme and much more. So why not join our inspiring team in the North East.

At Addaction, we’ve led the way in helping people overcome drug and alcohol problems for over 40 years. And we’re still growing today, providing innovative services that help thousands of people to turn their lives around. If you have a background in management or substance misuse, we’d like you to join our management team in Durham.

As part of a management team in a multi-agency partnership, you’ll support the Senior Manager and play a key role in delivering high-quality care and support. This will involve day to day operational management of a treatment centre, managing relationships and partnerships, and communicating our vision as an organisation. You will also have responsibility for a key theme across the Partnership. While the current vacancy is at our Peterlee treatment centre, applicants should be willing to work at any of our drug treatment centres across County Durham.

Experience of management, substance misuse and treatment options, and working alongside and in partnership with a range of statutory and non-statutory agencies is essential. A sound grasp of legislation will also be key.

To provide clinical and psychosocial interventions to service users referred into the Alcohol Service.

To work in partnership with other agencies including Primary Care and Probation making referrals based on clinical need to other specialist treatment services where appropriate.

To assist in the delivery of the service through the provision of assessment, action planning and appropriate referral

To collect and collate monitoring and outcome data to inform future commissioning of services;

To provide support, information and advice to individuals within the criminal justice setting, Alcohol Treatment Requirement (ATR), Arrest referral scheme, Court referral scheme, in relation to substance misuse.

To identify appropriate services for clients with substance misuse issues

To communicate Addaction’s vision and deliver its mission, corporate strategy and business plans

THE SUCCESSFUL APPLICANT COULD UNDERGO TRAINING AS A NON MEDICAL PRESCRIBER

PART TIME 20 HOURS PER WEEK
Saturday - 3 hours
Sunday - 3 hours
Monday - 7 hours
Tuesday - 7 hours
You’ll be there to help our clients address their alcohol misuse issues. Acting as both supporter and facilitator; you’ll draw up recovery plans to assist them through and beyond the challenges they face, and work with them to make positive changes.
You’ll need to have excellent listening skills, balanced with a team-orientated and proactive attitude, as well as demonstrate experience gained in health, social care or criminal justice setting.

We have a full time vacancy for an experienced and process driven project administrator to join our countywide admin team in West Sussex.

Based in Bognor Regis on a day to day basis you will work as part of the wider administrative team across the county and will therefore need access to a vehicle, a full clean driving license and the flexibility to be able to travel to other sites, sometimes at short notice. Mileage will be paid for an travel over and above your normal journey to work.

At Addaction we put our service users at the heart of everything we do and to ensure this happens, the ability to work as part of a team is essential. The successful candidate will be experienced in managing a busy reception. Other key duties will include taking minutes, typing letters, inputting accurate data into our script database, completing & submitting routine monthly returns to given deadlines and controlling the project petty cash.

With the ability to put visitors at ease on reception both face to face and on the telephone, a ‘can do’ attitude is essential. Secretarial skills are essential including typing and minute taking as is the ability to work under pressure, prioritising your workload and ensuring all work is completed to given deadlines.
Excellent IT skills are essential with the successful candidate preferably having advanced qualifications in the use of word and excel. You must be an organised individual who aspires to ensuring a high level of detail & accuracy in their work. This vacancy would suit someone with experience of working in a medical setting but this is not essential.

This is a great opportunity for the right person to join a team whose aim is to make a positive difference to the lives of our service users.