Recovery Worker

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.

Our core values are

As
**a Recovery Worker** at
**Change Grow Live, **you will support service users from point of entry into the service and through their recovery journey by providing screening, assessment, psychosocial interventions, recovery planning and onward referral.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone who has experience in a similar field looking to take the next step in their career.

**Responsibilities**:
**Where**:Preston, Lancashire

**When**:We’re looking to get the right people in to the team ASAP

**Hours**:37.5 hours per week

**What we will give to you**:

- 25 days holiday (+ bank holidays) rising by 1 day for each years’ service
- Flexible working arrangements
- 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

**About the role**:

- Engage people who have substance misuse problems and provide them with advice, support and recovery focused structured clinical interventions to support their recovery and primary health care needs
- Build therapeutic relationships and deliver a tailor-made package of care
- Carry out comprehensive service user assessments and develop individual recovery plans that clearly identify how achieving each goal will enable progression in addressing substance use
- Carry out risk assessments and risk management
- Help individuals to develop recovery resources and access peer and mutual support groups to develop their own recovery capital

**About you**:

- Excellent understanding of drug and alcohol issues and experience of working within a related field
- 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
- Excellent team working and interpersonal skills, maintaining a highly cooperative approach to supporting colleagues in delivering service objectives
- Accomplished written and verbal communication skills and a high degree of personal IT competency.

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.