Healthcare Assistant

Change Grow Live

5h • Onsite

About The Position

Change Grow Live are a charity dedicated to the belief that we can make a difference to our Service Users lives, offering support and respect in a safe environment, treating each user as an individual and working with them to find the right treatment and care options. Our core values are ‘Be open, be compassionate and be bold ’ and our team members apply these daily to achieve our mission of helping people change the direction of their lives, grow as individuals, and live life to its full potential. We have an exciting opportunity for a Health Care Assistant covering our Lancashire Service and will be based at Lancaster Inspire, who has the skills and experience to support and engage with our service users, ensuring that they access the right intervention at the right time, in a way that best meets their needs.

Requirements

• Excellent understanding of drug and alcohol issues and experience of working within a related field.
• Experience of delivering harm reduction advice and interventions, including Needle Exchange.
• Experience of delivering Naloxone training.
• Current Certificated Injection Technique and Immunisation Training OR willing to undertake training
• A commitment to multi-agency working and establishing partnerships with other professions to achieve good outcomes for the service user group, e.g. health services, GP’s, hepatitis clinic etc.
• Good working knowledge of physical health interventions, services and good practice.
• Be a supportive team player with strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work in partnership with a wide range of professionals, agencies, and internal/external stakeholders
• Understand the importance of information governance processes and commit to follow and apply all necessary safeguards
• Seek out learning opportunities to improve and broaden your professional knowledge and skills and to contribute and oversee the learning and development of others

Responsibilities

• Ensure BBV screening and vaccinations are comprehensively delivered
• Coordinate and support the Hep C treatment clinic
• Responsibility for the development and running of the needle exchange.
• To reduce drug related harm to the individual and wider community
• To promote harm reduction and enable service users to improve their own health and wellbeing
• Develop skills and knowledge to conduct clinical interventions.
• To promote and support individuals into both abstinence based and medically assisted forms of recovery

Benefits

• 25 days of annual leave, plus bank holidays. Additionally, you'll receive one extra day of annual leave for each year of service during your first five years, therefore you will enjoy 30 days of leave after five years with us
• Paid ‘Wellness’ hour each week along with a ‘Wellness’ hub and Employee Assist Programme
• Contributory pension scheme
• Several benefits incl. discounts for shopping, cinema, holidays, etc.
• A friendly and supportive team
• Generous Refer-a-Friend scheme
• Training, career development & progression opportunities

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed