Our Support Packages are designed to help employers support employees dealing with drugs and alcohol issues. Offering a workplace support service that works with employers to offer tailored programmes that help prevent and overcome the harms caused by substance misuse.
Employee Support Packages
We deliver a range of training from general awareness and spotting the signs of issues through to conversation skills development. Below is our most popular workplace course designed to provide the skills to communicate with people experiencing issues.
What is covered in our support training?
- Roadmap to recovery, providing skills for working with substance misuse and supporting change
- Exploring attitudes towards substance misuse and barriers to professionals delivering interventions, as well as the basics around spotting signs of substance misuse in workplaces.
- Developing a practical understanding of what constitutes an effective substance misuse risk assessment
- Learning and understanding how to start a brief intervention conversation
- Understanding readiness to change through awareness of the trans-theoretical model of behavioural change (cycle of change)
- Learning and using motivational interviewing skills to support someone that uses substances through the cycle of change
- How to make an effective referral
