Substance Misuse Support And Engagement Worker

Support and Engagement Worker | Middlesbrough

We're recruiting a Support and Engagement Worker to join an Adult Social Care and Health Integration team, supporting people with substance use issues across Middlesbrough. Many clients will also face additional challenges — housing instability, reoffending behaviour, mental ill health, and physical ill health or disability — so this is very much a multiple-disadvantage role rather than single-issue casework.

You'll work flexibly across a wide range of settings — prisons, courts, community locations, other agencies, and partner services — using proactive street engagement and home visits to reach people who might otherwise struggle to access support. The focus throughout is on reducing barriers to treatment and helping even the most marginalised individuals get the help and opportunities they need, using a trauma-informed, strengths-based approach.

You'll be working with people who may present with behaviours that chall...