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Skills for Health
Added on
07/12/2009
Updated on
01/02/2011
Roles
Skills for Health 
working with the Alcohol Improvement Programmes Workforce Development and Training Group have developed a range of nationally transferable roles for alcohol practitioners. The following roles have been designed to provide a structured approach to developing relevant, transferable and nationally endorsed roles that can be used across different locations and services, with the flexibility to add locally relevant competences where required.
- Provision of IBA (Identification and Brief Advice)
- Specialist Alcohol Worker
- Alcohol Service Coordinator
View the roles here
National Occupational Transferable Roles
The full range of national role templates which includes competences required for the role, career framework level descriptors and indicative learning and development needs can be viewed here.National Occupational Standards and DANOS
NOS AH10
The DH 'Guidelines for Commissioning IBA Training' provides guidance on IBA learning requirements and performing against the competence described in the NOS AH10 Employ techniques to help individuals to adopt sensible drinking behaviour. The IBA Primary Care RCN accredited elearning course adheres to these competences, but it is the responsibility of the employer/employee to ensure that learning outcomes are applied and assessed.
DANOS
The Drug and Alcohol National Occupational Standards (DANOS) 'cover most of the substance misuse tasks & activities relevant to the field' (FDAP) and DANOS guides are available for both practitioners and commissioners
- DANOS 2012 for Commissioners and Service Providers
A practical guide to DANOS for commissioners and providers of drugs and alcohol services. FDAP - DANOS 2012 For Practitioners
'Its a Vision Thing - Developing standards of practice in the drugs & alcohol workforce' provides user friendly guidance on occupational standards and competencies for substance misuse practitioners....
Further Information on Competences
The FDAP's developing the workforce pages provide more information about DANOS, and other competences including the timeline for delivery of DANOS standards.
Code of Practice
The Federation of Drug and Alcohol Practitioners (FDAP) publishes a code of practice for drug and alcohol workers and useful guidance about DANOS and professional conduct: