Substance Misuse Recovery Worker

Red Sector Recruitment Limited; Leeds; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment agency is seeking a Substance Misuse Recovery Worker for a full-time position based in Leeds. Responsibilities include supporting service users in their recovery journey, providing assessments, and promoting community involvement. An Enhanced DBS is required. The contract is for 3 months with negotiable pay of £22-23 an hour.

Qualifications

• Enhanced Adults and Children's DBS required.

Responsibilities

• Support service users through their treatment and recovery journey.
• Provide screening, assessment, and recovery planning.
• Reduce alcohol-related harm to service users and the community.
• Promote carer and community involvement.
• Provide advocacy for partnership services.
• Support social reintegration for service users.

Job description

We currently seeking a Substance Misuse Recovery Worker for our client in Leeds on a 3 month contract to start ASAP. The rate of pay will be negotiated between £22-23 an hour. This will be Full Time Contract, Monday to Friday from 09:00-17:00.

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.

An Enhanced Adults and Children's DBS will be required for this position.