Sessional Dependency and Recovery Coordinator

Change Grow Live; West Midlands; Sur place; GBP 22 000 - 28 000; Temps partiel

Résumé du poste

Change Grow Live in the West Midlands region seeks a Recovery Coordinator (sessional) to support service users through entry, treatment and recovery journeys. You will work with probation partners to ensure timely access to interventions while promoting recovery, resilience and social reintegration.

The role requires understanding of substance misuse, group facilitation skills, and excellent communication. DBS and MOJ vetting are required; visa sponsorship is not offered.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of substance misuse issues and experience in similar field.
• Experience working with groups/pods and managing group dynamics.
• Excellent verbal and written communication with good IT skills.
• Proactive, able to work on own initiative with strong time management.

Responsabilités

• Support service users from entry through treatment/recovery journey.
• Provide screening, assessment, recovery planning and referrals.
• Reduce drug/alcohol-related harm and promote involvement of carers and community.
• Deliver structured content within group settings and evaluate progress with co-facilitators.

Connaissances

Substance misuse understanding

Group work experience

Excellent communication

IT skills

Time management

Stakeholder collaboration

Information governance

Description du poste

Overview

Believe in People?

The best people have one thing in common.

They care.

Change Grow Liveare 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 opportunity for Sessional Dependency and Recovery Coordinatorwho has theskills and experience to assess and engage with our service users, ensuring that they access the right intervention at the right time, in a way that best meets their needs.

Where: West Midlands, Worcestershire and Warwickshire

Full Time Hours: 0 hours

Contract Type: Sessional

*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 our Dependency and Recovery Team that covers the West Midlands, Worcestershire and Warwickshire.

As a Recovery Coordinator within Dependency and Recovery you will work in close partnership with probation to support our Service Users along their journey with us.

About the role:

• 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 drug and 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
• Research, design and prepare subject matter and materials for groups / pods.
• Deliver structured content within group settings to service users at various stages of recovery
• Engage with debriefing and evaluations with co-facilitators after groups/pods have taken place, reviewing progress and identifying concerns with service users
• Tailor specific workshops around the needs of the service users, such as: anger management, sleep disorders, relationships, etc

About you:

• Have a strong understanding of substance misuse issues and experience of working within a similar field
• Experience of working with groups/pods and managing group dynamics, such as conflict or challenging behaviour.
• Be an excellent communicator, both verbal and written with good IT skills
• 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

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.

The successful candidate will need to complete an enhanced DBS check and obtain MOJ vetting.

Salary Range (pro rata if part time)

£17.32/Yr.

ILW / OLW /Fringe

N/A - Outside London Weighting Area

Closing Date

2/11/2026

This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at an enhanced level.