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Social Care & Health
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Social Care, Social Care & Health
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Cheshire
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Up to £29196 per annum + inclusive of sleep payment
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Health Trainer: Substance Misuse – Harrow
A Health Trainer, specialising in Substance Misuse is required to work on a rolling contract for one of the UKs leading Drug and Alcohol Charities.
This role is 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday.
Responsibilities:
· Identify and engage with individuals from agreed target groups providing information to individuals about the relationship between behaviours and health, and promoting improvement in their health and wellbeing.
· Support and motivate individuals, to identify their health needs and assess the barriers that prevent them from making healthy choices, assisting individuals to learn in learning how to make better health choices and support them in initiating and sustaining appropriate behavioural changes.
· Deliver outstanding client care, demonstrating empathy, understanding, attention to detail, and a commitment to delivering a quality service.
· Keep abreast of the holistic range of services available in the community by developing links with service providers and keeping up-to-date with service changes and developments, in order to appropriately signpost individuals to the service then need when they need them
· Get involved with running events at the service for the different initiatives they provide, this can include speaking to clients at these events, as well as being involved in promoting them through creating posters, leaflets etc.
Experience Required:
· Experience of working with clients with substance misuse, eg. homelessness, drug and alcohol, housing
· Working with and engaging individuals and groups of adults
· Experience of actively engaging with local communities
· Experience of using Microsoft programmes (Word and Excel)
· Experience of team working
· Experience of managing a personal workload or caseload
· Being involved in events in the past
Morgan Hunt is a multi-award-winning recruitment Business for interim, contract and temporary recruitment and acts as an Employment Agency in relation to temporary vacancies. Morgan Hunt is an equal opportunities employer, job suitability are assessed on merit in accordance with their skills, qualifications and abilities to perform the relevant duties required in a particular role.