Recovery Coordinator

Overview:
**Change Grow Live** are 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.

Pathways to Recovery has been delivering substance misuse treatment in Warrington since 2007 and we are rated as ‘Outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

The service is based in our busy Bold Street premises in central **Warrington**, and we are currently looking to appoint to the post of **Opiate Recovery Co-ordinator**.

We are seeking an individual with genuine dynamism and a solution-focused approach to assist service users in addressing a variety of challenges, including substance misuse, mental health concerns, and other social issues commonly encountered by our service users. Also, someone who shares our ambition and drive to combat the damage that drug and alcohol misuse can have on our community. You will become an integral member of the opiate team, and you will be expected to contribute to the life of the service through supporting our service users, ensuring the good governance and quality of our operations, and moreover the authentic service user focus of our delivery.

You will be expected to be a good communicator, and transparent and candid in your relationship with your colleague’s, our services users and our stakeholders from across the Warrington partnership.

In return you will be joining a resilient and purposeful service culture and an organisation that has aspiration for its staff and the people it serves at its core.

No two days are the same and we treat every person who comes into our service as an individual, so being flexible, curious and a good listener are key.

**Where**:Warrington

**Hours**: 37.5

**Salary**: £27,449.53 - £31,529.41 Pro Rata (CGL Scale 23 - 28) dependent on experience

**Responsibilities**:
**About the role**:

- Supporting service users from point of entry into the service and through their treatment/recovery journey- Conducting home visits and proactively delivering treatment in the community, especially for those service users who may be harder to reach.
- 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
- 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
- Seek out learning opportunities to improve and broaden your professional knowledge and skills and to contribute and oversee the learning and development of others

**What we will give to you**:

- 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
- Several benefits incl. discounts for shopping, cinema, holidays, etc.
- A friendly and supportive team
- Training, career development & progression opportunities

If this sounds like you and you would like to begin your journey with Change Grow Live, then we would love to talk to you.