Recovery Coordinator

Clinks; Exeter; In loco; GBP 26.000 - 32.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

25 days annual leave

Wellness hour each week

Contributory pension scheme

Discounts for shopping and cinema

Training and progression opportunities

Refer-a-Friend scheme

Descrizione del lavoro

Change Grow Live is expanding its Southwest Prisons service and recruiting Recovery Coordinators to deliver psychosocial interventions to service users across the South West. You will assess, engage and plan recovery pathways, supporting individuals through treatment while reducing harm and promoting reintegration.

The role involves delivering structured group sessions, creating materials, and working with partners to ensure best outcomes for service users, carers and communities.

Competenze

• Experience of working with substance misuse issues.
• Experience of working with groups and managing group dynamics.
• Excellent verbal and written communication.
• Strong time management and prioritisation.

Mansioni

• Support service users from entry through their treatment journey.
• Provide screening, assessment, and recovery planning and onward referral.
• Reduce drug and alcohol related harm to service users and the wider community.
• Promote carer, service user and community involvement.
• Provide advocacy for access to partnership services.
• Work with service users to support social reintegration and recovery.
• Design and prepare materials for groups.
• Deliver structured content within group settings.
• Engage in debriefing and evaluations with co-facilitators after groups.
• Tailor workshops around the needs of the service users.

Conoscenze

Substance misuse experience

Group facilitation

Communication skills

Time management

Interpersonal skills

Information governance

Descrizione del lavoro

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.

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.