Total 2 job vacancies by Hillcrest Group

Role Purpose:

Project Workers will provide direct support and interventions to help minimise risks and promote positive lifestyles for individuals supported by the service.

Main Duties:

•To develop and facilitate group and one-to-one activities in line with service requirements for specific user groups and to provide education and awareness sessions to targeted groups and tailor information to the needs of each group;

•To promote and market the service to generate appropriate referrals;

•To take lead responsibility for a defined area of practice in the service, as negotiated and agreed with the line manager;

•To contribute to service improvements;

•To develop knowledge base in specialism and keep up-to-date with best practice and contribute to the local and national discourse in the field;

•Effective communication;

•To mentor and support the induction of new staff;

•Contribute to team learning and development;

•To provide comprehensive, strength-based assessment of personal and social needs and support people to achieve their goals as defined in their Personal Outcome Plan;

•To provide a range of one-to-one and group interventions to promote change, including crisis support, counselling support, information and advice, awareness-raising, brief interventions, peer support groups, mutual aid, relapse prevention, employability and diversionary activities;

•To raise awareness in the community supporting family members, friends and concerned others, community members and other professionals on risk behaviours and promote equality and reduction of stigma;

•Out-of-hours and weekend work may be required as prescribed by the needs of the service.

Service Specific Duties:

The service descriptor document is part of this Job Description and should be referenced in accordance to specific duties.

Any Other Duties:

The post holder may be required to perform duties other than those given in the job description for the post.

Role Purpose:

The Peer Support Workers will work as part of a team to help deliver support to individuals. Peer Support Workers will have their own lived experience of the issues faced by people accessing services and use these to help deliver support.

Main Duties:

•Promote awareness of the specialism through sharing their own lived experience;

•Encourage and support people at all stages of engagement with services;

•Deliver therapeutic mutual aid and peer-led activities and, or educational activities;

•Develop a range of activities that promote wellbeing;

•To raise awareness in the community supporting family members, friends and concerned others, community members and other professionals on risk behaviours and promote equality and reduction of stigma;

•To contribute to their own well-being and progression in order to move on;

•Undertake a vocational qualification to support their own professional development;

•To contribute to the wider team and support service improvements;

•Effective communication;

•Maintain effective working relationships and boundaries to protect their own and others progress.

•Follow operational guidance, policies, procedures and best practice;

•Out-of-hours and weekend working may be required as prescribed by the needs of the service.


Service Specific Duties:

The service descriptor document is part of this Job Description and should be referenced in accordance to specific duties.

Any Other Duties:

The post holder may be required to perform duties other than those given in the job description for the post.