Opiate Recovery Care Coordinator

Change Grow Live; Greater London; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 33,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Wellness hour

Wellbeing resources

Pension scheme

Employee discounts

Learning and development

Career progression

Inclusive culture

Job summary

Change Grow Live in London is looking for an Opiate Recovery Coordinator to join the Tower Hamlets Opiate Team. You will assess and engage service users, ensuring access to the right intervention at the right time within a supportive, recovery-focused framework.

The role offers full-time hours (37.5 per week) with pro rata salary and benefits. You will work with a multidisciplinary team to deliver psychosocial interventions, care coordination, risk assessment, and person-centred reviews.

Qualifications

• Experience with people facing multiple and complex challenges.
• Understanding of recovery-focused approaches, harm reduction and person-centred practice.
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills.
• Ability to engage with people from diverse backgrounds and experiences.
• Knowledge of safeguarding, risk management and professional boundaries.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and maintain high-quality case management.
• Commitment to equality, inclusion and empowering others.

Responsibilities

• To support opiate service users who are prescribed opiate substitute medication.
• Care co-ordination responsibilities alongside the tasks of recovery planning, risk assessing, risk management planning and client-centred reviews.
• Deliver psychosocial interventions to reduce disengagement, reduce harm and associated criminality.
• Providing screening, assessment, and recovery planning and onward referral.
• Reducing drug and alcohol related harm to service users and the wider community.
• Promoting carer, service user and community involvement.
• Providing advocacy for access to partnership services.
• Working with service users to support social (re)integration, enabling them to lead meaningful and purposeful lives: promoting recovery, resilience, peer support and self-determination.

Skills

Recovery-focused approaches

Risk management

Communication

Diversity engagement

Job description

Change Grow Live in London is looking for an Opiate Recovery Coordinator to join the Tower Hamlets Opiate Team. You will assess and engage service users, ensuring access to the right intervention at the right time within a supportive, recovery-focused framework.

The role offers full-time hours (37.5 per week) with pro rata salary and benefits. You will work with a multidisciplinary team to deliver psychosocial interventions, care coordination, risk assessment, and person-centred reviews.