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.

Working as a **Recovery Coordinator **with **Change Grow Live** is a rewarding role where you can utilise your people skills to make a real difference in the lives of those suffering with substance misuse problems. Supporting our service users from point of entry into the service and through their recovery journey, helping with social re-integration and enabling them to lead purposeful and meaningful lives.

We are currently recruiting a **Recovery Coordinator **to work as part of the newly implemented Southwest Prisons service delivering psychosocial interventions to service users across **HMP Portland**.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone with experience of substance misuse issues, looking to take the next step in their career with a charity that will support your continued personal and professional development.

**Where**:HMP Portland, Dorset

**Hours**:37.5hrs per week

**Salary**: £27,449.53 - £31,529.41

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

- Supporting service users from point of entry into the service and through their treatment/recovery journey
- Work closely with the Clinical Substance Misuse team to develop and implement care plans for those receiving clinical prescribing, including attendance at joined 5 day, 28, day and ongoing clinical reviews
- Complete secondary screening assessment of patients arriving to prison as part of Integrated Health and Wellbeing model of service delivery
- Reducing drug and alcohol related harm to service users
- Providing advocacy for access to partnership services
- Contribute to risk management processes, including prison ACCT process as appropriate
- Work closely with Through the Gate provision, Healthcare, Prison partners and External Support Agencies to ensure effective coordination of Release Planning
- 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

**About you**:

- Have a strong understanding of substance misuse issues and experience of working within a similar field ideally within prison/criminal justice
- 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
- Paid ‘Wellness’ hour each week along with a ‘Wellness’ hub and Employee Assist Programme
- Contributory pension scheme
- A great selection of benefits incl. discounts for shopping, cinema, holidays, etc.
- A friendly and supportive team
- Training, career development & progression opportunities

**_
Please read attached Job Description for a more detailed outline of responsibilities and Person Specification_**

If this sounds like you and you’d like to begin your journey with **Change Grow Live,** then we’d love to talk to you