Assessment and Engagement Worker

Job overview

This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship. If it is identified that you require sponsorship to undertake this role your application may be withdrawn.

Are you passionate about supporting people on their recovery journey?

We are looking for an Assessment and Engagement worker to join our well-established Drug and Alcohol Services team. This is a key role in delivering structured treatment and recovery support for individuals affected by substance misuse.

What You’ll Do:

• Manage a caseload of clients with complex needs,
• Complete comprehensive assessments, risk management plans, and recovery plans.
• Deliver structured psychosocial interventions (PSI) and facilitate group work.
• Conduct regular care planning and reviews in line with national guidance.
• Work closely with multi-agency partners to provide holistic support.
• Contribute to safeguarding processes and risk escalation where required.

What We’re Looking For

• Experience in substance misuse services or related health/social care settings.
• Strong understanding of recovery-focused approaches and harm reduction.
• Excellent communication and organisational skills.
• Ability to manage complex caseloads and work collaboratively with partners.
• Knowledge of national guidance and clinical governance requirements.

Main duties of the job

• Provision of drug & alcohol treatment to Service Users within the locality.
• Holding a caseload of service users and being responsible for offering a range of interventions to those individuals.
• Engage service users into treatment and through their recovery journey
• Complete screening and asset based mapping to identify appropriate recovery focused interventions.
• Embracing the concept of recovery and demonstrating this in your practice and work
• Ensuring that your work is evidence based, up to date and in accordance with current policy and legislation.
• Keeping up to date and accurate records and documentation.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details. A summary is provided below:

To provide a dedicated comprehensive support to people with drug use problems their families and friends within the organisational framework of STaRS (Staffordshire Trent and Recovery System). Provision of drug & alcohol treatment to Service Users within the locality.

You will be responsible for holding a caseload of service users and being responsible for offering a range of interventions to those individuals. Supporting service users through their treatment journey from beginning to end. Ensuring that your work is evidence based, up to date and in accordance with current policy and legislation. Keeping up to date and accurate records and documentation.

To work within the service users and multi-agency team members in an essential liaison role to draw in local community assets to support the delivery of Recovery focussed outcomes, promoting and creating opportunities in visible recovery, harm reduction and brief interventions in the hub reception areas.

Facilitating psychosocial intervention group work programmes.

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.