Recovery Worker

Red Sector Recruitment Limited; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

Red Sector Recruitment Limited in Cambridge is seeking a Substance Misuse Recovery Worker on a 3 month contract to start ASAP.

The rate of pay is £22-£23 per hour for a 37.5 hour week (Mon–Fri). You will support service users from entry through recovery, conduct screening and planning, promote involvement, provide advocacy, and aid social reintegration. An Enhanced Adults and Children’s DBS on the Update Service will be required.

Responsibilities

• 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 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

Job description

We currently seeking a Substance Misuse Recovery Worker for our client in Cambridge on a 3 month contract to start ASAP.

The rate of pay will be negotiated between £22-23 an hour. This will be 37.5 Hour a Week Contract, Monday to Friday.

As a Recovery Worker you will be required to:

• 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 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.

An Enhanced Adults and Children’s DBS on the Update Service will be required for this position