Recovery Coordinator

Change Grow Live; Exeter; In loco; Confidential; Tempo pieno

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Wellness hour each week

Wellness hub and Employee Assistive/CP

Contributory pension

Discounts for shopping/cinema/holidays

Training, career development & prog.

Generous Refer-a-Friend scheme

25 days annual leave + 1 day extra per

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Change Grow Live is recruiting Recovery Coordinators to work with the Southwest Prisons service, delivering psychosocial interventions to service users across the South West. You will assess engagement, plan recovery journeys, and refer to the right interventions, ensuring individuals access appropriate support in a timely manner.

The role involves shift patterns including evenings, weekends, and bank holidays, with full-time 37.5 hours per week on a permanent contract.

Competenze

• Strong understanding of substance misuse and related conditions.
• Experience facilitating groups or pods and managing dynamics.
• Excellent verbal and written communication and IT skills.
• Ability to work autonomously with good time management.
• Knowledge of mental health interventions and good practice.
• Team player with ability to collaborate with partners and stakeholders.
• Ability to adapt to change prioritising service users' needs.
• Understand information governance and safeguarding requirements.
• Commitment to ongoing learning and staff development.

Mansioni

• Support service users from entry onward through treatment and recovery.
• Provide screening, assessment, and recovery planning with onward referrals.
• Reduce drug and alcohol related harm in the community.
• Promote involvement of carers, service users, and the community.
• Advocate for access to partner services.
• Support social reintegration and recovery-focused activities.
• Research and prepare materials for groups/pods.
• Deliver structured group content for users at different recovery stages.
• Debrief with co-facilitators and review progress and concerns.
• Tailor workshops (anger management, sleep, relationships, etc.).

Conoscenze

Substance misuse knowledge

Group facilitation

Excellent communication

Self-motivation

Mental health interventions knowledge

Interpersonal skills

Change management

Information governance awareness

Learning and development mentorship

Strumenti

IT skills

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Overview

Change Grow Live are a charity dedicated to the belief that we can make a difference to our Service Users lives, offering support and respect in a safe environment, treating each user as an individual and working with them to find the right treatment and care options.

Our core values are 'Be open, be compassionate and be bold' and our team members apply these daily to achieve our mission of helping people change the direction of their lives, grow as individuals, and live life to its full potential.

Following additional funding and internal promotions, we are expanding our team and creating further opportunities within the service.

We are currently recruiting Recovery Coordinators to work as part of the Southwest Prisons service delivering psychosocial interventions to service users across the South West. Our ideal candidate will have the skills and experience to assess and engage with our service users, ensuring that they access the right intervention at the right time, in a way that best meets their needs.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone with experience of substance misuse issues, looking to take the next step in their career with a charity that will support your continued personal and professional development.

This position may include evenings, weekends and bank holiday working.

Where: HMP Exeter

Hours: Full time, 37.5 per week

Contract: Permanent

Please note: Full-time hours at Change Grow Live are 37.5 hours per week. For part-time roles, the salary and payments will be pro rata based on contracted hours

Responsibilities

About the role:

• Supporting service users from point of entry into the service and through their treatment/recovery journey
• 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
• Research, design and prepare subject matter and materials for groups / pods.
• Deliver structured content within group settings to service users at various stages of recovery
• Engage with debriefing and evaluations with co-facilitators after groups/pods have taken place, reviewing progress and identifying concerns with service users
• Tailor specific workshops around the needs of the service users, such as: anger management, sleep disorders, relationships, etc

About you

• Have a strong understanding of substance misuse issues and experience of working within a similar field
• Experience of working with groups/pods and managing group dynamics, such as conflict or challenging behaviour.
• Be an excellent communicator, both verbal and written with good IT skills
• Proactive and able to work on own initiative with excellent time management and prioritising skills
• Have a good working knowledge of mental health interventions, services, and good practice
• Be a supportive team player with strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work in partnership with a wide range of professionals, agencies, and internal/external stakeholders
• Ability to manage change successfully in a way that prioritises the needs of service users
• Understand the importance of information governance processes and commit to follow and apply all necessary safeguards
• Seek out learning opportunities to improve and broaden your professional knowledge and skills and to contribute and oversee the learning and development of others

What we will give to you

• 25 days of annual leave, plus bank holidays. Additionally, you'll receive one extra day of annual leave for each year of service during your first five years, therefore you will enjoy 30 days of leave after five years with us.
• Paid 'Wellness' hour each week along with a 'Wellness' hub and Employee Assist Programme
• Contributory pension scheme
• Several benefits incl. discounts for shopping, cinema, holidays, etc.
• A friendly and supportive team
• Training, career development & progression opportunities
• Generous Refer-a-Friend Scheme

Please note: This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Applicants must already have the right to work in the UK at the time of application. For applicants with time-limited visas, unfortunately, we are unable to support new visa applications or extensions.

We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if we receive a high number of applications, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

Salary Range (pro rata if part time)

CGL points 23 to 28 (£28,557.79 - £32,802.41)

ILW / OLW /Fringe

N/A - Outside London Weighting Area

If you have any questions or concerns on this opportunity that you would like to talk through please contact us using the below details:

Dorota Adametz | [e-mail] | 01392415762

This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at an enhanced level.