Recovery & Dependency Coordinator - Group Facilitation

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

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Wellness Hour

Pension scheme

Discounts

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Job summary

Change Grow Live in Birmingham is seeking a Dependency and Recovery Coordinator to support people from entry into the service through their recovery journey, ensuring timely access to interventions and coordinated care.

The role requires delivering screening and recovery planning, reducing harm, and promoting involvement with service users and carers while building strong partnerships across internal and external services.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of substance misuse and related field.
• Experience delivering groupwork and managing group dynamics.
• Excellent communication skills, written and verbal.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and use initiative.
• Knowledge of mental health interventions and best practice.
• Strong partnership-working with internal and external stakeholders.
• Commitment to continuous learning and development.

Responsibilities

• Supporting service users from initial engagement through treatment and recovery
• Delivering screening, assessment, recovery planning and onward referrals
• Reducing drug- and alcohol-related harm for individuals and communities
• Promoting service user, carer and community involvement
• Providing advocacy and enabling access to partnership services
• Supporting social reintegration, resilience, peer support and self-determination
• Designing, preparing and delivering structured group work and pods
• Facilitating groups for people at different stages of recovery
• Participating in reflective debriefs and evaluations with co-facilitators
• Tailoring workshops to meet identified needs, including areas such as anger management, sleep, and relationships
• Working within a custody setting on an adhoc basis

Skills

Substance misuse

Group work

Communication skills

IT capability

Initiative

Mental health interventions

Partnership working

Change management

Information governance

Safeguarding responsibilities

Professional development

Job description

Change Grow Live in Birmingham is seeking a Dependency and Recovery Coordinator to support people from entry into the service through their recovery journey, ensuring timely access to interventions and coordinated care.

The role requires delivering screening and recovery planning, reducing harm, and promoting involvement with service users and carers while building strong partnerships across internal and external services.