Experience

WDP (Westminster Drug Project)

• United Kingdom
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Recovery Practitioner

  • Apr 2021 - Present

  - Working as part of a specialist team to support those struggling with drug and alcohol misuse - Completing comprehensive assessments, risk assessments, risk management and recovery care plans with service users to ensure personalised and recovery-focused treatment journeys - Carrying a caseload of 40+ service users with a range of complexities (dual diagnosis, physical health, homelessness, domestic violence, no access to public funds and other vulnerability issues) - Providing a range of evidence-based interventions such as key working, motivational interviewing, ITEP mapping, harm reduction and relapse prevention - Carrying out regular recovery care plan reviews, attending and co-ordinating multidisciplinary review meetings both within the service and with external parties, and providing detailed reports for service users involved with statutory services - Maintaining accurate and timely service user records through case management systems in compliance with Information Governance policy - Assisting with pharmacological and clinical interventions, including alcohol prescribing, detox, and BBV testing - Enabling service users to access education, employment and legal support - Identifying and managing risks in an effective manner to prevent escalation



Sainsbury's

• United Kingdom
• Retail
• 700 & Above Employee

• Customer Service Assistant

  • Oct 2015 - Mar 2021



Project 6

• United Kingdom
• Individual and Family Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Youth Mentor

  • Sep 2019 - Dec 2020

  - Mentoring vulnerable teenagers with mental health challenges and social withdrawal - Setting person-centered goals and helping individuals to achieve them - Supporting young people to access community facilities and groups - Providing emotional support to individuals and their families - Teaching life skills such as budgeting and paying bills - Understanding communication needs and adapting them to each individual - Mentoring vulnerable teenagers with mental health challenges and social withdrawal - Setting person-centered goals and helping individuals to achieve them - Supporting young people to access community facilities and groups - Providing emotional support to individuals and their families - Teaching life skills such as budgeting and paying bills - Understanding communication needs and adapting them to each individual



Learn for Life Enterprise

• United Kingdom
• Non-profit Organization Management
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Teaching Assistant

  • Oct 2015 - Nov 2015

  - Assisting vulnerable, hard-to-reach members of the community, such as refugees, asylum seekers, minority groups and the elderly, to prepare for British Citizenship by learning functional English, IT and basic computer skills. - Assisting vulnerable, hard-to-reach members of the community, such as refugees, asylum seekers, minority groups and the elderly, to prepare for British Citizenship by learning functional English, IT and basic computer skills.