Sessional Recovery Worker

5 months ago

Kilmarnock, United Kingdom We Are With You Full time

Our East Ayrshire Recovery Service are looking for a Sessional Recovery Worker to join them in providing high quality recovery support to people in East Ayrshire. You will be working as part of an experienced and motivated team, supporting our work at the Rapid Access to Drug and Alcohol Recovery (RADAR) service offering assessment and access to drug and alcohol services across East Ayrshire.

If you are an enthusiastic and creative individual and are passionate about changing people’s lives for the better, we’d love to hear from you.

As a Recovery Worker supporting the RADAR service, you will be the first point of contact for people in their recovery journey, providing support and advice to people who are experiencing difficulties due to substance misuse and their families. You will work as part of our team and alongside other social care services to identify how we can help. We are determined and always professional in our approach to each and every case and we never judge, we're just here to help.

There will be assessments to carry out and records you need to keep and update, that's all part of our professional commitment and service to our clients and commissioners.

This role will be worked on a sessional basis, with average working hours of between 15-20 per week. Your working pattern will be agreed with your line manager but will include a minimum of two full week days.

**Diversity Statement**

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.

**REQUIRED SKILLS**:
Ideally you will have experience of working or volunteering in the field of substance misuse.

You will have excellent communication skills and a compassionate manner. You will have excellent computer and organisational skills. A relevant qualification would be an advantage but full training will be provided.

You will work as part of a team with the aims of:

- understanding your clients
- keeping them safe
- creating a plan they can achieve with support
- Work effectively as part of a multi disciplinary team of RADAR (Rapid Access to Drug and Alcohol Recovery) partners
- keeping accurate and timely records of your contact with them
- Update a number of databases and case management systems
- working effectively with other social care providers e.g. Housing, to cover all aspects of their successful recovery
- continuously learning and reflecting to improve the outcomes for your clients
- supporting your colleagues across the service to deliver excellent care

A full job description and person specification is available on request.

**ABOUT THE COMPANY**:
Everyone should feel comfortable getting the support they need for issues with drugs, alcohol or mental health.

At We Are With You we work with people on their own goals, whether that’s staying safe and healthy, making small changes or stopping an unwanted habit altogether. We give people support in a way that’s right for them either face to face in their local service, community or online.

We provide a free and confidential service without judgement to more than 100,000 people a year.

We use our expertise to improve the help available and raise awareness around drugs, alcohol and mental health so that more people can get support.

**We Are With You.**

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**BENEFITS**:

- Competitive salary
- 28 days annual leave, plus bank holidays
- 2 days paid volunteer leave per year
- Auto-enrollment into We Are With You’s pension scheme
- Access to a Blue Light Card - giving you great savings on big high-street and online brands
- Flexible working opportunities and access to a range of services and resources to support you with your wellbeing
- We have an excellent Refer a Friend scheme which offers you a £500 bonus for any recommendations, any role Our scheme allows you to recommend your friends and family to work with us and earn a £500 bonus payment for every successful referral you make. Please note, the Refer a Friend scheme is only applicable if your recommended friend completes their 6 months probation period

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