Recovery Connector Practitioner

The Methodist Church in Britain; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 40,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Pension scheme

Season ticket loan

Occupational sick pay

Eye-care vouchers

Wellbeing talks and activities

Continuous training and career dev via

24/7 Employee Assistance Programme

Staff discounts

Job summary

Phoenix Futures is seeking a Permanent Recovery Connector Practitioner to join the Derbyshire Recovery Partnership team in the East Midlands. The role involves linking people in recovery to local groups, delivering sessions, and facilitating mutual aid activities across the Erewash and South Derbyshire area.

The position requires travel with clients to appointments, a driving licence, and commitment to long-term abstinence and better health outcomes.

Qualifications

• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Very good IT skills, including Word and Excel.
• Building good working relationships.
• Completing strengths-based assessments and recovery plans.
• Positive, motivating and proactive approach to work.

Responsibilities

• Deliver recovery-focused interventions and sessions to clients on your caseload.
• Engage clients accessing treatment in recovery-focused sessions.
• Support clients to attend local recovery support services, activities and mutual aid meetings.
• Help deliver recovery group work in person and online, including SMART meetings.

Skills

Communication

IT skills

Relationship building

Assessments & recovery plans

Motivational approach

Job description

Permanent Recovery Connector Practitioner post in the Erewash and South Derbyshire community team of the Derbyshire Recovery Partnership, with Phoenix Futures as employer. The role links people in recovery from drug or alcohol use with local recovery groups, teams and mutual aid meetings, including helping to deliver group sessions and SMART facilitator training. The work is community-based, with travel alongside clients to appointments and meetings to build their confidence. A driving licence and vehicle for work are required given the rural geography.

What the job involves

• Deliver recovery-focused interventions and sessions to clients on your caseload
• Engage clients accessing treatment in recovery-focused sessions
• Support clients to attend local recovery support services, structured activities, mutual aid meetings and recovery-led activities
• Help deliver recovery group work in person and online, including open peer-led groups, structured relapse-prevention groups and SMART meetings
• Complete accredited SMART facilitator training
• Advocate for clients and travel with them to appointments and meetings to help overcome barriers to aftercare and community recovery support
• Complete strengths-based assessments and recovery plans with clients, keeping the client at the centre of the work
• Support clients to achieve their personal recovery goals
• Document work completed with clients and maintain spreadsheets
• Help break down barriers, reduce stigma and promote visible recovery

Skills & knowledge

• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Very good IT skills, including Microsoft Word and Excel
• Building good working relationships
• Completing strengths-based assessments and recovery plans
• Positive, motivating and proactive approach to work

Checks & eligibility

• Driving licence with access to a vehicle for work

Other

• Clear passion for working with people in recovery, shown in the personal statement
• Commitment to supporting long-term abstinence or reduced use and better health outcomes

What's offered

• 25 days' annual leave plus bank holidays, rising to a maximum of 30 days (pro rata)
• Pension scheme and life assurance
• Season ticket loan
• Occupational sick pay
• Eye-care vouchers
• Wellbeing talks and activities
• Continuous training and career development via the PXL learning system
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme and staff discounts, including Blue Light