Summary
GDAS – Assertive Outreach PractitionerSalary: £25,750.00 per annumContract: FTC 31st March 2027Hours: full-time, 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday. Weekend and evening work required, as neededLocation: Powells Place, NewportClosing date: 10/04/2025Under supervision of the Assertive Outreach Team Leader, the post holder will work as partof the multi-disciplinary outreach team to support the delivery of recovery care plans for clients with a range of mental health, substance use presentations and housing needs in the community and facilitating appointments in the community and signposting.This will include targeted wrap around substance use support that seeks to preventhomelessness andmaintainaccommodation. They will be vital in liaising with professionals; ensuring substance use and other appointments are flexible to need and providing harm reduction advice, brief interventions and signposting into voluntary and statutory substance misuse services according to need.They will have working knowledge and experience of both drug and alcohol detoxification and treatment programmes with an understanding of holistic aspects of care. They will have experience with service users who have mental health and co-occurring substance use difficulties to provide the speediest, most effective facilitation to connect with the services they may need.Job DescriptionApplication link: https://kaleidoscope68.org/job-list/
