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Role: Keyworker - Alcohol Support Team NI86/09/26/1v-1
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Keyworker - Alcohol Support Team NI86/09/26/1v-1
Exciting Opportunity to Join Our Team
Post: Keyworker - Alcohol Support Team NI86/09/26/1v-1
Salary: Grade 5 salary scale: £26,679 - £31,325 per annum
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Contract Status: Fixed Term until March 2027 (possibility of extension)
Location: 112-118 Royal Avenue, Belfast
About The Service
The Keyworker role has responsibility for forming professional relationships with people referred to the service with the aim of improving health, well-being and housing outcomes. You will support service users by completing a holistic needs assessment and a corresponding support plan to focus on achievable goals which often include communication with external agencies in the statutory, community and voluntary sectors.
Specific to Post
This post specifically involves providing professional support to people with experience of problematic/ dependent alcohol use with the aim of improving health and well-being outcomes and to sustain tenancies. The successful candidate will work in a small team who support individuals in their own home or community. They will be responsible for providing professional, pragmatic and holistic assessment, care planning and structured interventions relating to alcohol use and housing issues across the Belfast trust area.
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Harm reduction is the approach used by the team to support clients to safely reduce their alcohol use according to their own goals. This includes reduction planning, management of cravings and guidance on safer use. Tenancy sustainment is also a key aspect of this role, aiming to minimise repeat homelessness and strengthen clients’ tenancy management skills. The post-holder will be responsible for delivering a quality service by using an assertive outreach approach to engage with clients specifically around alcohol use but also working on secondary drug issues and their impact on the individual.
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Full details of the role and the essential criteria are detailed in the Job Description and Person Specification available at the following link;
NI8609261v-1_KeyworkerAHST.pdf
The closing date for all completed applications is: 12:00pm on 15th October 2026.
For informal enquiries please contact 028 90840 555
Benefits
Extern offer a competitive benefits package including;
- 26 days annual leave, increasing to 28 days after 3 years’ service and 32 days after 5 years’ service
- 11 statutory holidays
- Generous pension, employer contribution of 6.5%
- Enhanced Occupational Sick Pay, Maternity Pay and Paternity Pay
- Life Assurance and Wellbeing Programmes
- Comprehensive induction and training
- Regular Supervision
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Bike To Work Scheme
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Equal Opportunities
Extern is an equal opportunities employer
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