Recovery Worker

Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust; Aylesbury; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dedicated team in Aylesbury as a Recovery Worker, focusing on delivering high-quality support to individuals facing substance misuse challenges. You will provide evidence-based psychological interventions, collaborate with clinical services, and ensure a recovery-oriented approach. The role requires NVQ 3 in Health and Social Care and offers a supportive environment that values training and development.

Benefits

In-house training and coaching support

Comprehensive wellbeing and lifestyle support

Qualifications

• Minimum of two years' experience working with substance users.
• Commitment to harm reduction approaches.

Responsibilities

• Provide psycho-social interventions for individuals with substance misuse problems.
• Coordinate recovery plans and goals with clients.
• Work collaboratively with clinical services.

Skills

Counseling skills

Case management experience

Harm reduction approaches

Education

NVQ 3 in Health and Social Care

Job description

Job Overview

Are you:

• passionate about providing high quality care and support?
• skilled/experienced in providing evidence based psychological/psychosocial interventions geared towards supporting people to make positive changes and work towards recovery?
• highly motivated with the ability to support and inspire?
• able to apply your skills/interventions to the care of people with mild to moderate substance misuse needs.
  
  

Then come and join our team in Aylesbury as a Recovery Worker!

Main duties of the job

As a Recovery Worker, You Will

• Provide a range of low, medium and high intensity interventions to those people experiencing substance misuse problems.
• Work in a community environment delivering a high quality drug and alcohol recovery service in response to need.
• Provide a range of psycho-social interventions motivating and supporting people to achieve recovery and positive outcomes within a recovery-orientated substance misuse treatment service.
• Work in collaboration with clinical prescribing services to ensure the needs of each service user is met.
• Provide a drug and alcohol recovery service (incorporating assessment, recovery planning, casework coordination and psycho-social interventions) to people located within the community environment.
  
  

Working for our organisation

Inclusion, created in 2002 is part of the Specialist Services Care Group of Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT). We provide caring and effective services across England, including, West Yorkshire, West Midlands, East Midlands, West Mercia, Thames Valley, Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Thurrock, Essex. We support individuals, families and communities who are affected by addiction, crime, mental health or need treatment for their sexual health.

We believe that the individuals and families who use our services should receive high quality, committed and inclusive care, realising all the benefits a modern NHS organisation can provide. We work with patients and our staff teams to achieve the best outcomes we can. We invest heavily in training and development, and the wellbeing of our people, both staff and service users is central to who we are.

Here at MPFT, we are proud of the comprehensive wellbeing and lifestyle support offer available, in addition to in-house training and coaching support. Our services are robustly governed, evidence-based, inclusive, and designed and provided in conjunction with service users. We are committed to providing the best service we can, and if you share our values, we want you on our team!

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for further details. A summary is below:

• To deliver psycho-social, recovery orientated and outcome-focussed service within ORB with a particular emphasis on high standards and good practice.
• To work within an integrated team delivering psycho-social and clinical interventions to service users presenting with substance misuse issues, including alcohol.
• To use strengths-based approaches including mapping techniques and relevant paperwork in order to carry out initial screening assessments.
• To carry out further assessments that includes strengths-based node-link mapping techniques and recovery planning.
• Work collaboratively with clinical services to ensure service users are referred for clinical services and supported whilst waiting for or receiving clinical treatment. Including joint recovery planning, attending joint clinical reviews, joint 1:1 sessions and communicating progress and needs to appropriate staff where need dictates.
• To identify and formulate goals jointly agreed with the service user on their recovery plan appropriate to their needs.
• To be responsible for the coordination of recovery for each client on your caseload.
• To provide structured interventions in accordance with the needs identified on an individual basis, in line with the goals identified and agreed on the recovery plan.
  
  

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• NVQ 3 in health and Social Care or equivalent qualification
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• A minimum of two years’ experience of working with substance users.
  
  

Skills

Essential criteria

• A commitment to and understanding of harm reduction approaches to working with substance users.
• Counselling skills, case management experience & the ability to work under pressure.