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Peterborough, England, United Kingdom

The How Are You Team are an innovative community engagement team with Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust, that run 6 websites across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. Working on the How Are You Fenland website I am responsible for the following: -Plan, coordinate and execute the community engagement with local service providers, VCS groups, grassroots community groups, local government and health providers. - Promote and sign up local groups, activities and services to be featured on the How Are You websites, supporting with website copy, and media content such as photos, video recording & editing.- Represent the project at board level across health and and social care providers. - Promote the How Are You website at online and face to face networking and community events. - Manage the social media account for How Are You Fenland. - Train staff at local services and community groups on how to use the How Are You websites and what local services are available.- Build and maintain internal relationships, promoting the service of How Are You and training clinical staff on the benefits of community support and how to find it on the website. - Diversity Champion - representing How Are You internally and feeding back any equality and diversity issues. Supporting and promoting events such as Gay Pride, Black History Month and South Asian Heritage Week. - Supporting and mentoring team members and How Are You Community Specialists.- Support local integrated neighbourhood boards and contributed to project groups.Personal Achievements: - Increasing the social media reach by 176% and engagement by 540%.- Created and increased Youtube watch time by 111%- Onboarding over 200 activity and services to the HAY Fenland website. - Chairing Mental Health Hub Meetings/ Fenland Mental Health Networking Meetings.- Wrote proposal and secured funding for 3rd Sector partner organisation.

Peterborough, United Kingdom

I designed and implemented a social prescribing service for the Peterborough North Primary Care network that covered 10 GP practices with a patient group of 90,000 patients. - Triaged and assessed patients for suitability for social prescribing service. - Co producing care plans with patients and support them to set goals. - Assertive referring and signposting patients to local community groups/ activities and statutory services. - Auditing and performance managing the service. - Social prescribing champion for Cambridgeshire and member of personalise care steering group. - Providing peer support to other local social prescribers. - Supporting the recruitment of 3 social prescribing link workers.- Attending steering groups for the Peterborough mental health exemplar project.- Creating relationships , referral pathways and links with local charities and voluntary organisations.- Coordinated the response to the clinically extremely vulnerable during the start of pandemic.

Derby, United Kingdom

- Provide psycho social interventions for service users with drug issues.- Case manage up to 110 service users.- Work collaboratively with service users to develop care plans and risk management plans.- Liaise with external stakeholders such as social services and criminal justice services.- Provide triage and comprehensive assessments for substance misusers.- Provide harm reduction interventions and needle exchanges.- Support service users through detoxification.- Train and Mentor new members of staff and volunteer.

Norfolk, King'S Lynn

This was a temporary group facilitator lead, covering staff sickness.- Deliver psycho social interventions for substance misuser in group settings. - Model and live by the values and behaviours of the foundation of recovery- Monitor engagement and performance through attendance, spreadsheet and service user feedback.- Contribute to team development through morning meetings.- Contract referrals and book them on the appropriate workshop. - Celebrate service users success and feedback to their allocated recovery worker. - Train and support staff on group programmes.- Monitor and feedback any safeguarding issues highlighted in group or through none attendance.

King'S Lynn

- Manage a case load of up to 80 service users with alcohol and drug issues over two sites. - Collaborate with service users to create care plans and risk management plans. - Provide needle exchanges, harm reduction advice, dry blood spot testing to service users. - Maintain links and relationship with external stakeholders. - Empower service users by sign posting and refer service users to other support agencies.- Ensure key performance indicators were met. - Liaising with prescribing staff and booking clients in for medical reviews. - Liaising with GP's and pharmacies to ensure service users safety.- Attending outreach events to promote service, such as Gay Pride. - Supporting in safeguarding of children and adults through following safeguarding procedures and attending multi agency meetings with social care.- Completing safeguarding home visits and completing parental capacity assessments.- Provide psycho social interventions in groups and on a one to one basis to service users to help them recovery from alcohol and drugs.- Supporting/training/coaching leadership team on organisational processes.- Contribute to team development through daily meetings and team meetings, ensure organisations values, polices & procedures were imbedded.- Support the implementation of new service, training staff on policies and procedures. - Supporting the entry into service process and leading and developing the welcome to recover group.- Training staff on assessment process.- Coaching staff on workshop facilitation, group work materials and setting up of pod working across multiple sites. - Delivering groups and workshops to service users.

Peterborough, United Kingdom

- Supervise and line manage 7 team members over three sites.- Ensure service is CQC compliant.- Monitor performance to ensure that staff and service met key performance indicators.- Contribute and lead on areas of service quality improvement plan.- Build and Maintain relationship with external stakeholders and services.- Complete quality audits on case notes, care plans, safeguarding adults and children's cases.- Completing CQC notifications for safeguarding referrals and death notifications.- Complete investigation reports.- Train staff and volunteers.- Induct and develop migrant impact project.

Peterborough, United Kingdom

Secondment into position of locality manager whilst management restructure took place.- Monitor and lead on performance or KPI's.- Manage Central site in Peterborough that provides support for 900 service users.- Supervise and Line manage 8 members of staff. - Coach staff to ensure meeting KPI's- Manage recruitment and interviews. - Support and lead on team restructure.- Complete quality audits, investigations. - Manage staff sickness, disciplinary and grievances.- Maintain and build links with external stakeholders.- Lead and develop service quality improvement plan.- Support staff with safeguarding issues.- Complete CQC notifications for safeguarding referral and service user deaths.

Peterborough, United Kingdom

- Implement the foundations of recovery programme, a three stage group programme to support clients in changing their behaviour. - Monitoring performance and quality of group interventions.- Facilitating groups and workshops for service users.- Leading workshops at team meetings and team away days.- Leading on psychosocial interventions within CGL Aspire. - Leading on culture to ensure in line with the foundations model of treatment. - Training and developing staff, peer mentors and volunteers.- Interviewing peer mentors and volunteers.- Coach staff, peer mentors and volunteers.- Gather staff and service user feedback. - Support implementation of new assessment. - Advocate for staff and service users at management meetings.- Create and develop group programmes for service users, train staff and monitor progress through attendance, feedback and successful exits from treatment.- Support implementation of national alcohol model at the service.- Create timetables, resources for staff and service users.

Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom

- Supervise and Line manage 9 staff members over two sites. - Support and leading the implementation of a new substance misuser service, ensuring pathways and policies were implemented correctly. - Ensure that the service was CQC compliant.- Support with recruitment and interviewing.- Inducting staff, peer mentors and volunteers.- Collecting service user and staff feedback. - Leading workshops at team meetings and team development days. - Facilitate workshops for service users.- Manage service user complaints, complete investigations and feedback outcomes to management team.- Investigations and producing reports. - Completing performance and quality audits. - Supporting the creating and development of Service quality improvement plan. - Support in the management of disciplinary and grievance procedures and performance management.- Mange relationships with external stakeholders.

Nottingham, United Kingdom

- Supervise and Line manage 9 staff members over two sites. - Support and leading the implementation of a new substance misuser service, ensuring pathways and policies were implemented correctly. - Ensure that the service was CQC compliant.- Support with recruitment and interviewing.- Inducting staff, peer mentors and volunteers.- Collecting service user and staff feedback. - Leading workshops at team meetings and team development days. - Facilitate workshops for service users.- Manage service user complaints, complete investigations and feedback outcomes to management team.- Investigations and producing reports. - Completing performance and quality audits. - Supporting the creating and development of Service quality improvement plan. - Support in the management of disciplinary and grievance procedures and performance management.- Mange relationships with external stakeholders.

Worksop, Bassetlaw

Tuped in to CRI. -Provide substance misuser treatment for up to 80 services users over two surgeries.-Liaise with prescribers for changes in service users medication. - Ensure KPI's were met.- Produce care plan and risk management plan with service users. - Refer and signpost to other services. - Implement new care plan tool (Outcome Star).- Ensure safeguarding procedures were met (sourcing safe storage boxes for clients with children).

Darwin, Australia

Charitable organisation providing counselling for those affected by Alcohol and other drugs, and gambling.- Provide 1-2-1 assessments and ongoing counselling. - Contribute to service development through team meetings. - Produce policies and procedures to upload to quality management tool.- Maintaining stakeholder relations by liaising with other services.- Provide education sessions for the community at events.

Derby, United Kingdom

- Provide psycho social interventions for service users with drug issues. - Case manage up to 110 service users. - Work collaboratively with service users to develop care plans and risk management plans. - Liaise with external stakeholders such as social services and criminal justice services.- Provide triage and comprehensive assessments for substance misusers. - Provide harm reduction interventions and needle exchanges. - Support service users through detoxification. - Support in development of the detox service offered. Develop materials and packages to deliver to service users.- Signposted and referred service user to other identified services to support recovery.- Support Safeguarding children proceedings and produce reports contributing to child protections plans.- Refer and prepared service users to residential rehab units.- Train and mentor volunteers and new members of staff.

Mansfield

I was part of a team of administrators that supported the drug and alcohol service in Nottinghamshire.I was responsible for:- Taking referrals, providing harm reduction advice to new people entering the service. - Answering telephone, collating and passing on messages to staff.- Liaising with other services to make referrals.- Covering reception for community based clinics. - Sending appointment letters to service users. - Minuting team meetings and case reviews. - Supporting other departments when necessary. - Supported Community Engagement Events.- Other adhoc admin support to the alcohol workers.

Mansfield, England, United Kingdom

The DAAT was the responsible body for commissioning Drug and Alcohol services for Nottinghamshire. I was responsible for : - General office admin. - Answering telephones and greeting visitors. - Organising Travel, accommodation and booking conferences. - Supporting the organisation of an offender management conference. - Preparing minutes & Agendas and taking minutes of board meetings.- Diary Management and organising meetings. - Updating Website.- Formatting documents and reports.As also worked on a project called OUTing Nottinghamshire which was a community research into LGBT Communities and substance misuse in Nottinghamshire. I was responsible for:- Researching prior research on this topic. - Attending steering groups meetings. - Meeting and on boarding partner organisations. - Data Collection at forums and outreach at community venues. Supporting people to complete questionnaires.