Substance Misuse Support Worker Employment Contract UK
Set recovery and harm-reduction support duties with clear emergency, confidentiality and referral boundaries, without conferring diagnostic or detoxification authority.
This contract includes Deliver planned recovery and engagement support within the service model. Help residents attend appointments and connect with authorised community services. Follow overdose, intoxication and immediate-safety procedures. Preview before payment PDF and editable DOCX files after checkoutBuilt for UK employers
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Job description
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Probation period
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Role-specific duties
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Working hours
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Holiday entitlement
Holiday terms explained for the selected arrangement.
Confidentiality
Client and company confidentiality.
Disciplinary process
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Notice periods
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When to use this contract
Maintain consistent recovery and engagement support, maintain safe response to intoxication and relapse risk, and coordinate coordinated referrals and appointment follow-up.
Workplace context: Care home, community care, client home or agreed care settings.
What makes this role different
Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering overdose and emergency response. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering confidentiality and information sharing. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering lone and community work. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering boundaries, gifts and resident money. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering CQC requirements where applicable.
Not a fit / obtain specialist advice
Recheck the role or obtain appropriate advice if the work would exceed these maintained authority boundaries: The worker may deliver planned psychosocial support within training. Detoxification, diagnosis, medicine, testing interpretation and enforcement decisions require the authorised clinical or management route. Obtain approval before committing expenditure, changing contractual commitments or making regulated or staffing decisions outside the assigned role.
What to prepare before you issue it
the residential, outreach or community settings covered
the shift, lone-working, travel and out-of-hours arrangements
the overdose, naloxone and emergency training required where applicable
the testing or medicine tasks permitted, if any
the recovery, clinical and safeguarding referral routes
the boundaries for confidentiality, gifts and resident money
Day-to-day operating brief
What Substance Misuse Support Worker work looks like in practice
A substance misuse support worker helps residents engage with recovery goals, appointments, harm-reduction plans and community services without providing unauthorised clinical treatment. The contract should cover relapse information, testing where part of the service, medicines boundaries, safeguarding and professional relationships.
Responsibilities reflected in the contract
Deliver planned recovery and engagement support within the service model.
Help residents attend appointments and connect with authorised community services.
Follow overdose, intoxication and immediate-safety procedures.
Record disclosures, observable presentation and actions without judgement.
Maintain professional boundaries around money, gifts and out-of-hours contact.
Escalate clinical, safeguarding and relapse concerns through named routes.
A realistic working scenario
A resident returns appearing intoxicated and reports using an unknown substance. The worker follows the immediate safety and overdose plan, contacts clinical or emergency support as required and records observable facts rather than investigating or promising confidentiality.
Outputs to agree
consistent recovery and engagement support
safe response to intoxication and relapse risk
coordinated referrals and appointment follow-up
Records and evidence
Recovery-plan contact and goal.
Appointment and referral outcome.
Risk, substance-use disclosure and safety action.
Incident, safeguarding and clinical handover.
Care plans.
Care notes.
Reporting relationship
Typically reports to Registered Manager, Service Manager, Team Leader or Care Coordinator. Confirm the employer's actual reporting structure in the builder.
Authority and escalation
The worker may deliver planned psychosocial support within training. Detoxification, diagnosis, medicine, testing interpretation and enforcement decisions require the authorised clinical or management route.
Obtain approval before committing expenditure, changing contractual commitments or making regulated or staffing decisions outside the assigned role.
Tools and systems
Care record systems.
Rostering systems.
Medication records where authorised.
Moving and handling equipment where trained.
Secure communication tools.
Workplace context
Care home, community care, client home or agreed care settings.
Training and certification
Complete employer-required safeguarding training.
Complete employer-required health and safety training.
Contract priorities
overdose and emergency response
confidentiality and information sharing
lone and community work
boundaries, gifts and resident money
Information the employer should prepare
the residential, outreach or community settings covered
the shift, lone-working, travel and out-of-hours arrangements
the overdose, naloxone and emergency training required where applicable
the testing or medicine tasks permitted, if any
the recovery, clinical and safeguarding referral routes
the boundaries for confidentiality, gifts and resident money
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The facts this Substance Misuse Support Worker contract is built around
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Work setting
Care home, community care, client home or agreed care settings.
Primary duties
Deliver planned recovery and engagement support within the service model.
Help residents attend appointments and connect with authorised community services.
Follow overdose, intoxication and immediate-safety procedures.
Record disclosures, observable presentation and actions without judgement.
Tools and training to confirm
Care record systems.
Rostering systems.
Medication records where authorised.
Moving and handling equipment where trained.
Governance focus
CQC context where applicable. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering overdose and emergency response. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering confidentiality and information sharing. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering lone and community work.
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Substance Misuse Support Worker clauses and builder inputs
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Role wording
Substance Misuse Support Worker duties
Maintain consistent recovery and engagement support, maintain safe response to intoxication and relapse risk, and coordinate coordinated referrals and appointment follow-up.
Deliver planned recovery and engagement support within the service model. Help residents attend appointments and connect with authorised community services. Follow overdose, intoxication and immediate-safety procedures. Record disclosures, observable presentation and actions without judgement. Maintain professional boundaries around money, gifts and out-of-hours contact.
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What is added to the finished contract
The worker may deliver planned psychosocial support within training. Detoxification, diagnosis, medicine, testing interpretation and enforcement decisions require the authorised clinical or management route.
Obtain approval before committing expenditure, changing contractual commitments or making regulated or staffing decisions outside the assigned role.
Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering overdose and emergency response.
Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering confidentiality and information sharing.
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Can the worker promise not to share a relapse disclosure?
No absolute promise should be made where safety or safeguarding may require relevant sharing. Explain the limits and use the authorised care route.
Can the worker advise on detox medicine?
Clinical and prescribing advice belongs with authorised professionals. The worker can support attendance and report symptoms under the service plan.
Can the worker interpret a drug or alcohol test result?
Only within the employer's authorised procedure and training; clinical interpretation, sanctions and treatment decisions should follow the designated professional process.
What should happen when a resident appears intoxicated?
Assess immediate safety within training, follow the overdose or emergency plan, obtain clinical help where required and record observable facts rather than assumptions.
May relapse information be shared with family?
Only under the resident's consent and service information-sharing arrangements, unless an authorised safety or safeguarding basis requires proportionate disclosure.
Can naloxone duties be included in the contract?
Yes where applicable training, supply, storage, authorisation, emergency response and incident recording are established for the particular service.
Who changes a resident's recovery plan after relapse?
The worker contributes evidence and the resident's views, while substantive plan or clinical changes should be made through the authorised multidisciplinary route.
How should personal boundaries be defined?
Cover approved communication channels, social contact, transport, gifts, money and out-of-hours availability so supportive relationships remain safe and professional.
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