Job Description

About the job

Are you open, compassionate and bold?

We are looking for an outstanding Healthcare Assistant to join our team in Tameside to work with people who have substance misuse needs. The post-holder will work across Tameside, providing assessment, advice and a range of clinical interventions.

We are looking for a passionate and committed Healthcare Assistant to join our clinical team at our Tameside service. This role provides an exciting opportunity to contribute to the development and performance of the service across Tameside.

The post holder will pro-actively assist in the delivery of comprehensive interventions aimed at improving health & wellbeing for service users across the service and contribute to ensure that substance users across Tameside receive consistent high quality services that adhere to the best practice guidelines and achieve high professional standards.

The services provide a comprehensive range of recovery-focused interventions including needle exchange, harm reduction, triage assessments, early engagement and brief interventions, medically assisted recovery programs, structured psychosocial interventions, and community drug and alcohol detoxification.

Change Grow Live are committed to creating an inclusive environment, which celebrates difference and allows our staff and service users to flourish. We recruit the very best staff from a wide range of backgrounds, ensuring service user’s benefit from our diverse skills and expertise. We always work to the principles of fairness and equality of opportunity in all our recruitment processes.

We also expect an assertive approach to ensuring the safety and well-being of all children, young people and adults, and applicants to these posts will need to demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to best safeguarding practice.

This post is subject to DBS clearance.

CGL points 19 to 21 (£23,525.95 – £25,106.61)

N/A – Outside London Weighting Area

20/3/2023

Beckie Wharmby | beckie.wharmby@cgl.org.uk | 01616729420

This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at an enhanced level.

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