Senior Recovery Worker

Turning Point; Bristol; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 30,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Bank holidays

Extensive training and learning

Job summary

Turning Point in Bristol is hiring Recovery Workers to support service users in setting goals around treatment and recovery. You will work in the alcohol team, provide assessments, risk management planning and liaise with clinical staff and partner agencies.

A commitment to Turning Point values, excellent communication skills and an openness to lived experience are essential. This not-for-profit role offers extensive training, a structured learning journey, and a salary of £25,870 to £30,265

Qualifications

• Excellent communication skills with service users and colleagues (verbal and written).
• Ability to manage different tasks and priorities in a dynamic environment.
• Experience or willingness to work in health and social care with safeguarding awareness.

Responsibilities

• Support service users to decide goals around treatment and recovery.
• Provide psycho-social interventions and information to service users.
• Collaborate with clinical staff on prescribing needs and with partner agencies; complete safeguarding referrals when needed.

Skills

Communication skills

Safeguarding

Risk assessment

Empathy

Job description

Recovery Workers act as 'key workers' to a caseload of service users, supporting them to decide their goals around treatment and develop plans to achieve these. The role includes maintaining regular contact with your clients, offering advice, information and psycho-social interventions as well as providing assessments, risk management planning and working closely with our clinical staff around prescribing needs and partner agencies. No day is the same in this role but an ability to communicate effectively with a range or service users and colleagues, an ability to manage different tasks and a commitment to Turning Point values are essential. You will also use risk tools and make appropriate adult and child safeguarding referrals as needed. You may have lived experience of substance use/mental health/homelessness (self or a significant other), come with experience supporting people in health and social care or just have a keen interest in supporting this group; if your values are right, we have a role for everyone.

Turning Point Benefits

You’ll have an understanding of substance and alcohol use and the challenges and opportunities for individuals on a recovery journey. However, we also recognise that many people have transferrable skills from other backgrounds such as mental health, housing or other health and social care provision. The roles are varied, so flexibility, an ability to work dynamically on a one to one and group basis and knowledge of relapse and other barriers to recovery will be vital but we can help to shape these skills where needed. We also look for candidates with excellent communication skills and who share our values as an organisation. We value individuals with lived experience but also those who are just interested in this line of work; our Trainee Recovery Worker program enables individuals without all relevant experience to gain an entry level position within the organisation before moving on to other roles.

We value individual creativity and initiative and, whatever your role, you will be fully involved in identifying opportunities to improve the quality of our services and the service user experience. Your ideas will be listened to and your suggestions implemented wherever possible. You will be supported in your role by extensive training to help develop your skills. Our learning culture encourages everyone to stay on top of the latest developments in their field and helps drive service improvement.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join Horizons, a vibrant new partnership delivering substance use treatment and recovery services in Bristol. Horizons is delivered in partnership between Turning Point, Bristol Drugs Project, and seven other local and national partners. The partnership combines Turning Point's experience as an outstanding national substance use provider together with Bristol Drugs Project's long history of excellent service delivery in the city.

This role will be based in our Alcohol Team, based within our central Bristol hub. As a leading health and social care provider with more than 300 locations across England, we take real pride in the services we offer.

We run all of our services on a not-for-profit basis; instead, we invest every penny back into our services and people. We never stop believing in change for the better, and we work constantly to improve the lives of the people we support.

What Benefits Will I Receive?

We know reward looks different to each person and so whether its ways to make your money go further, a culture supporting recognition and celebration, or opportunities to boost your career - we want to support you in every way we can with our total reward package.

The salary scale for our Recovery Worker roles is between £25,870 - £30,265. See our full salary scale below. Starting salary will be dependant on experience with annual pay progression up to scale point 5.

• 1 £ 25,870
• 2 £ 26,905
• 3 £ 27,981
• 4 £ 29,101
• 5 £ 30,265

You will have opportunities to progress your career with a structured learning journey and clearly defined career pathways that will enable you to achieve your long-term goals and work to your strengths.

Whether you are looking to progress into a management and leadership role or to be a specialist in your field as an Advanced Substance Use Practitioner at Turning point we will support and encourage you on your career journey., 25 days' paid holiday a year + Bank Holidays, increasing with each year of service up to 27 days + Bank Holidays. Plus the option to buy additional holidays and spread the cost.

Join our team and discover the comprehensive benefits we offer by following this link to explore all the exciting perks available to our employees.

We reserve the right to close this advert early if we are able to appoint to the vacancy before the advertised closing date.

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