Outreach 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.

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**:Wirral

**Hours**:37.5 per week

**Salary**: £27,449.53 - £31,529.41

**Contract Type**: Permanent.

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

- Support service users from point of entry into the service and through their treatment/recovery journey.
- Deliver psychosocial interventions as part of the Drug and Alcohol Recovery Service within the community of Wirral.
- Work in partnership with other partnership agencies as part of an integrated service.
- Advocate on behalf of the service users who are unwilling or unable to engage in treatment.
- Proactively follow up with service users that miss appointments to increase opportunity of engagement.
- Contribute to risk management processes.
- Work with service users to support social (re)integration, enabling them to lead meaningful and purposeful lives: promoting recovery, resilience, peer support and self-determination.
- Carry a case load of street homeless service users experiencing drug and alcohol issues & complete comprehensive assessments.

**About you**:

- Have a strong understanding of complex substance misuse and homelessness issues and have experience of working within a similar field.
- 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.
- Be able to mamage a small caseload of street homeless service users and copmplete comprehensive assessments.

**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
- Refer a Friend Scheme

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.