Recovery Coordinator

Change Grow Live; Sheffield; On-site; Confidential; Part time

Job summary

Change Grow Live in Sheffield is seeking a Sessional Dependency and Recovery Coordinator to support service users through entry, treatment, and recovery. You will screen, assess and plan care, refer as needed, and promote engagement with partnerships while reducing harm. DBS enhanced check and MOJ vetting are required; visa sponsorship is not available.

The role collaborates with probation and aims to empower individuals toward meaningful, independent lives and community involvement.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of substance misuse issues.
• Experience with groups/pods and managing group dynamics.
• Excellent verbal and written communication with good IT skills.
• Proactive, able to work on own initiative with strong time management.

Responsibilities

• Support service users from entry through treatment/recovery journey.
• Provide screening, assessment, recovery planning and referrals.
• Reduce drug and alcohol-related harm in service users and community.
• Promote carer, service user and community involvement.
• Advocate for access to partnership services.
• Assist social reintegration, recovery, and peer support.
• Design and prepare materials for groups/pods and deliver content.
• Engage in debriefing and evaluate progress with co-facilitators.
• Tailor workshops to service user needs (anger management, sleep disorders, relationships).

Skills

Substance misuse knowledge

Group facilitation

Communication skills

Time management

Job description

Overview

Believe in People?

The best people have one thing in common.

They care.

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.

We have an exciting opportunity for Sessional Dependency and Recovery Coordinator who has 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.

Where:

Sheffield

Full Time Hours: 0 hours

Contract Type: Sessional

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

As a Recovery Coordinator within Dependency and Recovery you will work in close partnership with probation to support our Service Users along their journey with us.

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

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.

The successful candidate will need to complete an enhanced DBS check and obtain MOJ vetting.

Salary Range (pro rata if part time)

£17.32/Hr.

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:

chantel hopkin | [e-mail]

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