Social Care and Health

This will enable staff that already have an awareness of substance use issues to screen, assess and refer their adult service users. (For the accredited ‘CPD in Substance Misuse’ please see qualifications section).

Available to: Staff employed by Bradford Council (Social Care), Bradford District Care Trust, Voluntary Agencies and Independent Sector Staff within Bradford - who come into contact with substance users but are not specialists in drug & alcohol issues

You must have have completed drug & alcohol Basic Awareness Course.

Learning Objectives:

• Be able to raise the issue and interact using active listening skills.
• Understand an integrated approach to screening and assessment.
• Be able to decide what level of service is required and advise accordingly.
• Be able to assess risk and make a decision as to how urgently that service is needed.
• Know where to go for specialist help and how to access that help.

To view the dates and the booking form for this course, please click on the database link below and enter 'Assessment and Referral' into the 'Search Keywords' text field. This will display the various dates and you are able to see further information by clicking on the 'View' buttons.

If there are no search results shown for this course, it is likely that no future dates have been set at present. If this is the case, please contact the number below to find out further information.

Link to the Workforce Development training course database

Workforce Development
Phone: 01274 432795
email: workforce.developmentwrh@bradford.gov.uk