Job title: Outreach Practitioner for DEMO
Salary: £26,140-£31,400 pa pro rata, depending on skills and experience
Hours: 35 hours per week
Location: Sandwell area
Contract: Permanent
Job reference number: 1762
A unique, exciting opportunity has arisen within the service to join us as our Dynamic-Evolving Model of Outreach (DEMO) Practitioner.
This role will specifically support people who use substances and have little or no contact with the drug service in Sandwell. This will include those who inject drugs in public spaces and others with complex health concerns. Engaging with the core Sandwell drug service will not necessarily be an expected outcome of the DEMO project but being supported in their own space is the offer.
You will be part of a team led by the DEMO Advanced Nurse Practitioner, and supported by Sandwell peers, delivering harm reduction approaches and interventions, and supporting engagement around health issues with this very vulnerable and excluded group of people who inject drugs in the local area.
The successful candidate will have excellent engagement, communication, listening and organisational skills and can adapt to the ever-changing needs and circumstances of the target group. The DEMO Practitioner will continuously assess dynamic risks, providing a service which is risk alert not risk averse, and assist individuals to reduce the risk and harms they experience and work towards improving health outcomes, where this is someone’s aims.
An important part of this role is in responding quickly and effectively to near-fatal overdoses among the client group, coordinating the response to reduce the risk of a further overdose, with a fatal outcome.
You will need to have good writing and computing skills and be able to work confidently with all Microsoft programs and case management systems. You will need to be able to use a range of ways to bring the service to this group of individuals, including on foot and in vehicles. You will need courage and confidence to engage with people on their turf – sometimes in isolated and hidden spaces.
You will need to have highly developed advocacy skills to assist these individuals to engage with and benefit from wider social care, healthcare, benefits, housing and other services.
The most important things you will bring to this role are your commitment to meeting people where they’re at, an ability to build connections with people, a passion for and ability to implement harm reduction approaches, integrity, positive attitude, enthusiasm, motivation, flexibility and ability to use initiative and deliver the service with a trauma informed approach. Experience of developing and working in partnership with peers, your colleagues in the core service and other agencies is essential.
You will be required to work some evenings, and some unsociable hours in order to meet our service delivery requirements.
How to Apply:
To apply for this role, please submit your CV, along with a Cover Letter outlining your skills, experience, relevant qualifications and values fit for the role to [email protected]. Please ensure you clearly state the Job Reference Number on your Cover Letter.
Applicants must be able to provide satisfactory evidence of their right to work in the UK at the application stage.
Sponsorship is not available for this post. Applicants must have the right to work in the UK that does not require employer sponsorship for the duration of the appointment.
Closing Date: Sunday 13 September 2026
Interview Date(s): September 2026
