Recovery Coordinator Families and Parenting

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

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday + bank holidays

Wellness hour weekly + Wellness hub

Contributory pension

Discounts for shopping, cinema, etc.

Job summary

Change Grow Live is recruiting a Recovery Coordinator for the Pathways to Recovery team based in Warrington. You will work flexibly across the community, visiting families and delivering one-to-one and group interventions with empathy and resilience.

You will collaborate with social services, law enforcement, and housing providers while upholding safeguarding principles and trauma-informed practice. A local transport option is essential.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of substance misuse issues and experience in a similar field.
• Experience working with families displaying challenging behaviour in a calm, professional manner.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with good IT proficiency.
• Access to your own transport for work purposes.
• Experience across social work, youth offending, substance misuse, probation, health, family work, education or youth/community sectors.
• Knowledge of safeguarding and current legislation related to children and young people.

Responsibilities

• Visit service users at home, local hostels, community venues and partner organisations to provide outreach support.
• Deliver interventions via one-to-one meetings or groups, including parenting and therapeutic groups.
• Collaborate with local social services, MASH, police, probation, and housing services.
• Escalate issues through safeguarding lead and line manager with timely action.
• Represent Pathways to Recovery at Warrington MARAC meetings.
• Support DBS testing and refer clients to placement schemes where appropriate.

Skills

Empathy

Communication

Time management

Team player

Own transport

Adaptability

Job description

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.

We have an exciting role for a Recovery Coordinator Family and Parenting to join our Pathways to Recovery team in Warrington. You will be working alongside sometimes very complex families who have drug and/or alcohol misuse issues which may pose a risk, requiring sensitivity and the expectation to work in a fully trauma informed way.

No two days are the same and we treat every person who comes into our service as an individual, so being flexible, curious and a good listener are key.

Where: Warrington

Full Time Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Contract Type: Permanent

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

With this role you’ll be working as part of Pathways to Recovery team, based in Warrington.

You’ll be expected to work flexibly across the community, offering assertive outreach and in reach support in diverse settings, family homes, community locations, GP practices. This is very much a mobile, hands-on role suited to someone richly empathetic, resilient and motivated to promote positive change for Warrington families. In terms of partnership working, you will be working closely with external agencies including child and adult social services, the Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH) Team, police, probation, and housing services.

About the role:

• Work assertively visiting service users at home, local hostels, community venues and partner organisations, Warrington Hospital and Warrington Probation for example.
• Provide interventions via one-to-one meetings or groups. Groups will include (but are not limited to): practical parenting advice; support groups; social groups; fathers’ groups; therapeutic groups.
• Work closely with local children and adult social service teams and family intervention projects.
• Work with your service’s safeguarding lead, and your line manager to ensure all issues and concerns are escalated and dealt with quickly and effectively.
• Represent CGL Pathways to Recovery at the local Warrington MARAC operational meetings.
• Use Trauma informed principles and practices as part of the assessment process
• Carry out dry blood spot testing (DBST) as part of the case management process of adults
• Encourage and sign post adult service users toward the individual placement support scheme

About you:

• Have a strong understanding of substance misuse issues and experience of working within a similar field
• Experience of working with families displaying behaviour that may be challenging in a calm and professional manner.
• Be an excellent communicator, both verbal and written with good IT skills
• Access to your own transport for work purposes
• Experience in one or more of the following fields: social work; youth offending; substance misuse; probation; health; family work; education; youth and community.
• Experience of delivering substance misuse interventions.
• Knowledge of current legislation surrounding children, young people and safeguarding practice, child Protection
• 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 holiday (+ bank holidays) rising by 1 day for each years’ service “Capped at 30 days”
• 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
• Refer a friend scheme and receive £250 in vouchers if candidate is successful

A note about using AI in your application

AI can be a really helpful tool when putting together your application, and we're happy for you to use it. However, what we're most interested in is you.

We want to understand your experiences, achievements and strengths, so please make sure your application reflects your own story and clearly shows how you meet the essential criteria and the impact you've made in previous roles.

There's no need to write in a particular style. The strongest applications are authentic, specific and clearly demonstrate your skills, experience and potential. We look forward to learning more about you.

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. More information about eligible roles and occupations can be found here: Skilled Worker visa: Overview - GOV.UK

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

Closing Date

22/11/2026