Lived Experience Support Worker

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please submit your CV, along with a covering letter detailing your suitability for the post. If you are passionate about helping others facing the problems caused by drugs and alcohol, they this might be the just the job you are looking for... Diversity Statement As an organisation, we continue to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports and celebrates the diverse voices and experiences of our staff. We know that representing the communities we serve is key to us meeting our goals of radically improving people's lives. We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring and we encourage people from underrepresented communities and backgrounds to apply to join our team, including people with lived experience, people with disabilities, people from racialised communities, LGBTQ+ people and armed forces veterans. As part of our commitment to the Armed Forces Covenant, we provide a guaranteed interview scheme for candidates that are veterans and meet all the essential criteria for a role. With You is also a Disability Confident Employer and we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for candidates with a disability and meet all the essential criteria for a role. If you have a disability, a learning difficulty such as dyslexia or a medical condition which you believe may affect your performance during any aspect of our selection process, we'll be happy to make reasonable adjustments to enable you to perform at your best.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• None

Experience

Essential

• To be successful in this job you will need to:
• have personal lived experience of drugs or alcohol
• have completed your treatment at least 12 months ago
• be knowledgable and compassionate around the issues affecting people who use drugs or alcohol
• be equally willing to work with anyone regardless of their ethnic, cultural or social background, their gender, age, religious belief disability or sexual orientation
• understand what a positive user experience looks like including quality care
• be able to engender trust to build relationships with clients while maintaining professional boundaries
• be able to work under instruction as part of a team
• be able to build good working relationships with colleagues and other support providers
• have a good standard of written and spoken communication
• be comfortable using IT including email, Word and internet
• be able to manage your time responsibily and effectively
• have an awareness of and the ability to promote all types of recovery models
• be flexible with your working hours as there may be some evening or weekend working
• Should you be successful in your application, you will be required to provide 3 years worth of references and where applicable, will need to undergo an enhanced DBS check.

Desirable

• If you also have some or all of the following, that would be an advantage but not essential:
• other personal lived experience such as homelessness, mental health, criminal justice
• other working or volunteering experience
• an understanding or experience of developing activities and initiatives based on service user feedback
• more developed inter-personal communication such as presentation or negotiating skills
• proven experience of identifying a problem and developing a solution
• experience of supporting people managing a personal change
• a driving license and use of a car

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

We Are With You

Address

Truro

Truro

TR1 2EJ

Employer's website

https://www.wearewithyou.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)