Job summary
Our Tower Hamlets service have an exciting opportunity for a Recovery Coordinator- Alcohol.
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 alcohol related harm to service users and the wider community
- 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
Where:Worksop, Nottinghamshire
When: We are looking to get the right person into the team ASAP
Hours: 37.5
Salary:27,449.53-31,529.41dependent on experience
Main duties of the job
Successful candidates may have previously worked in the following areas:
- Substance misuse services
- Housing support services
- Rehabilitation services
- Support worker within health and social care
- Prison service
- Childrens services, supporting young people
- Hospitals and other medical practices
About you:
- Experience in managing caseloads
- Good working knowledge of alcohol-related harm and risks
- A commitment to multi-agency working and establishing partnerships with other professions
- Accomplished written and verbal communication skills and a high degree of personal IT competency.
- The ability to accurately update and maintain records in a timely fashion and to work to deadlines for the submission of information, e.g. reports.
- Excellent time management skills, and an ability to work on own initiative, prioritising accordingly.
- Excellent team working and interpersonal skills
- Good working knowledge of mental health interventions, services and good practice.
- An understanding of drug and alcohol issues and experience of working within a related field.
Benefits:
- 25 days holiday (+ bank holidays) rising by 1 day for each years service Capped at 30 days
- Paid Wellness hour each week along with a Wellness hub and Employee Assist Programme
- Contributory pension scheme
- Training, career development & progression opportunities
- Refer a friend scheme and receive £250 in vouchers if candidate is successful
About us
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 areBe open, be compassionate and be boldand our team members apply these daily to achieve our mission ofhelping people change the direction of their lives, grow as individuals, and live life to its full potential.
We believe that having diverse people working as part of our team makes us the organisation that we are.
We actively encourage applications from people from all backgrounds to help us to provide the best possible experience for the people who use our services and to make Change Grow Live a great place to work. If you have any feedback on our recruitment processes (good or bad) wed love to hear from you so that we can make sure they are fair and we attract and recruit the best, most diverse workforce possible.
The safety of vulnerable children, young people and adults is our absolute priority. We will support you in your role to make sure that you are equipped to support the safety of people who use our services and those around them, to the highest standard possible.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will work as an integral part of the multi-disciplinary team at the service named above to deliver high quality provision by:
- 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.
Role-specific responsibilities
- Act as main care coordinator overseeing assigned groups of service users, providing: screening; asset mapping; comprehensive assessments; recovery planning (using motivational interviewing techniques) and reviews of care.
- Coordinate a tailor-made package of care including:
- Recognised psycho-social interventions;
- 1 to 1 key work, POD and group work;
- Clinical interventions;
- Harm minimisation and brief interventions.
- The post holder will be the broker for these interventions, but will not regularly deliver them.
- Carry out comprehensive service user assessments, including asset mapping of community resources and develop individual recovery plans that clearly identify how achieving each goal
- Will enable progression in addressing substance use and re/integrating into the community.
- Support the development of service based recovery communities.
- Further develop CGLs links with local recovery groups / mutual aid groups.
- Ensure the timely and accurate collection, recording and reporting of specified data.
- Assess suitability for groups in terms of risk and special needs.
- Carry out risk assessments and risk management.
- Triage assessment and onward referral to a range of treatment/community support agencies.
- Work with prescribing clinicians to support substitute prescribing regimes to improve social functioning.
- To be creative and innovative so that the post best meets the needs of the service user, promoting access in to treatment, and continued engagement with underrepresented communities
- Ensure that all aspects of confidentiality are adhered to and that consent to share information is a key element to building trusting therapeutic alliances.
- Help individuals to develop recovery resources and access peer and mutual support groups to develop their own recovery capital.
- Work and liaise with other agencies involved with the service users broader care plan including health services, hospitals and GPs.
- To support the smooth running of the service, by contributing to tasks such as reception, duty cover, and clinical duties on an ad hoc basis.
- Provide health education especially in regard to harm minimisation, blood borne viruses and overdose prevention.
- To assist and carry out appropriate screening processes including DBST, urine and saliva tests, after completion of appropriate training or demonstration of relevant experience.
- To carry out key harm reduction strategies such as running of the Needle Exchange and distribution of Naloxone, after completion of appropriate training or demonstration of relevant experience.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will work as an integral part of the multi-disciplinary team at the service named above to deliver high quality provision by:
- 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.
Role-specific responsibilities
- Act as main care coordinator overseeing assigned groups of service users, providing: screening; asset mapping; comprehensive assessments; recovery planning (using motivational interviewing techniques) and reviews of care.
- Coordinate a tailor-made package of care including:
- Recognised psycho-social interventions;
- 1 to 1 key work, POD and group work;
- Clinical interventions;
- Harm minimisation and brief interventions.
- The post holder will be the broker for these interventions, but will not regularly deliver them.
- Carry out comprehensive service user assessments, including asset mapping of community resources and develop individual recovery plans that clearly identify how achieving each goal
- Will enable progression in addressing substance use and re/integrating into the community.
- Support the development of service based recovery communities.
- Further develop CGLs links with local recovery groups / mutual aid groups.
- Ensure the timely and accurate collection, recording and reporting of specified data.
- Assess suitability for groups in terms of risk and special needs.
- Carry out risk assessments and risk management.
- Triage assessment and onward referral to a range of treatment/community support agencies.
- Work with prescribing clinicians to support substitute prescribing regimes to improve social functioning.
- To be creative and innovative so that the post best meets the needs of the service user, promoting access in to treatment, and continued engagement with underrepresented communities
- Ensure that all aspects of confidentiality are adhered to and that consent to share information is a key element to building trusting therapeutic alliances.
- Help individuals to develop recovery resources and access peer and mutual support groups to develop their own recovery capital.
- Work and liaise with other agencies involved with the service users broader care plan including health services, hospitals and GPs.
- To support the smooth running of the service, by contributing to tasks such as reception, duty cover, and clinical duties on an ad hoc basis.
- Provide health education especially in regard to harm minimisation, blood borne viruses and overdose prevention.
- To assist and carry out appropriate screening processes including DBST, urine and saliva tests, after completion of appropriate training or demonstration of relevant experience.
- To carry out key harm reduction strategies such as running of the Needle Exchange and distribution of Naloxone, after completion of appropriate training or demonstration of relevant experience.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- A commitment to multi-agency working and establishing partnerships with other professions to achieve good outcomes for the service user group, e.g. mental health services, criminal justice agencies, community groups, etc.
- Accomplished written and verbal communication skills and a high degree of personal IT competency.
- The ability to accurately update and maintain records in a timely fashion and to work to deadlines for the submission of information, e.g. reports.
- Excellent time management skills, and an ability to work on own initiative, prioritising accordingly.
- Excellent team working and interpersonal skills, maintaining a highly cooperative approach to supporting colleagues in delivering service objectives.
- Good working knowledge of mental health interventions, services and good practice.
- Experience of working in an outcomes-focussed environment
Qualifications
Essential
- No formal qualification but have an excellent understanding of drug and alcohol issues and experience of working within a related field.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- A commitment to multi-agency working and establishing partnerships with other professions to achieve good outcomes for the service user group, e.g. mental health services, criminal justice agencies, community groups, etc.
- Accomplished written and verbal communication skills and a high degree of personal IT competency.
- The ability to accurately update and maintain records in a timely fashion and to work to deadlines for the submission of information, e.g. reports.
- Excellent time management skills, and an ability to work on own initiative, prioritising accordingly.
- Excellent team working and interpersonal skills, maintaining a highly cooperative approach to supporting colleagues in delivering service objectives.
- Good working knowledge of mental health interventions, services and good practice.
- Experience of working in an outcomes-focussed environment
Qualifications
Essential
- No formal qualification but have an excellent understanding of drug and alcohol issues and experience of working within a related field.
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.
