Waking Night Worker

Phoenix Futures; Prenton; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 29,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Salary £26,298 per annum

Pension scheme

Life assurance

EAP 24/7

Season ticket loan

Wellbeing talks

Career development via learning system

Job summary

Phoenix Futures seeks a Waking Night Worker for our residential therapeutic community. You will work as part of a team to support adults, monitor risks, and provide night-time care to enable daily programmes and recovery goals.

Responsibilities include organising evening activities, monitoring medication, and ensuring a safe, supportive environment. The role offers 25 days leave, pension and induction training as part of ongoing staff development.

Qualifications

• Experience working in residential settings and supporting adults.
• Ability to work in a team and be empowering and passionate about helping people with drug/alcohol lifestyle changes.
• Willingness to monitor and administer medication as part of care.

Responsibilities

• To organise and facilitate the evening running of the therapeutic community in a residential.
• To co-ordinate the users of our services tasks and activities.
• To provide waking night cover, ensuring that risk is monitored and minimised.
• To organise and facilitate the residents in preparing for the daily programme and activities.
• To monitor and administer medication to users of our service.

Job description

Come and join us in this fabulous opportunity. We are looking for a new Waking Night Worker within our residential setting. We are looking for a special kind of person who wants to make a difference in peoples lives. Could this be you?

The Role

We need someone who can work in a team within a residential setting and be empowering and passionate in supporting adults to make positive changes in their drug and alcohol lifestyle choices. Your role would include the following:

To organise and facilitate the evening running of the therapeutic community in a residential. To co-ordinate the users of our services tasks and activities.

To provide waking night cover, ensuring that risk is monitored and minimised.

To organise and facilitate the residents in preparing for the daily programme and activities.

To monitor and administer medication to users of our service.

Your Rewards

• 25 days’ annual leave plus Bank Holidays (increasing each year to a maximum of 30 days)
• You will be paid £26,298 per annum
• Opportunity for potential salary progression through appraisal
• Benefits including season ticket loan, pension scheme and life assurance
• Support through occupational sick pay, eye-care vouchers and regular wellbeing talks and activities
• Continuous training and career development via PXL our dedicated learning management system
• Access to a 24/7 Employee Assistance programme including telephone and online access

About Us

Phoenix Futures Group is a charity with over 50 years’ experience and a leading provider of drug and alcohol treatment. Our values are what define us and ensure we work to the highest standards. We believe in being the best, we are passionate about recovery, we value our history and use it to inform our future.

We work with local authorities, other charities and service providers across the country to deliver innovative programmes and projects that change lives for the better, setting people on the path to health and emotional wellbeing. We provide a diverse range of services, our expertise in psychosocial treatment and support is the common thread that runs through everything we do. People need psychological interventions, social support, meaningful use of time, sense of purpose and a place of safety to sustain their recovery. At our core, we support people, families and communities to recover from drug and alcohol dependency.

Other organisations may call this role or similar; Therapeutic Community Worker, Substance Use Practitioner, Substance Use Worker or Recovery Worker.

We encourage and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and believe it is important to include people with lived experience to ensure the needs of the people we support are represented. We are committed to creating an inclusive working environment where everyone is free to be themselves and we ensure equity of opportunity.

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