Dayhab Co-ordinator

The role will be based at SIAS in Marston Green, but require outreach work at other locations around Solihull Borough. The role is full time - 37.50 hours per week. **Hours will be worked flexibly, to meet the needs of the service users, and include evenings, weekends and public holidays. A clean driving licence and own transport are needed.**

**Job Purpose**

As the DayHab Co-ordinator your primary responsibility will be to organise and oversee recovery coaches and peer mentors in the delivery of the SIAS DayHab programme, which runs every day, including evenings, weekends and over public holidays.

You will be responsible for offering support, guidance and encouragement to recovery coaches and peer mentors, as well as service users. You will report on the programme to the Recovery Services Manager and work closely with the Recovery Co-ordinator who is the line manager for the recovery coaches.

The role also includes responsibility for championing and supporting the development of all peer supporters and peer mentors at SIAS, ensuing they are involved in every aspect of engagement and service delivery.

You will also be expected to represent SIAS' Recovery Services as a Lived Experience Recovery Organisation (LERO), build on existing relationships with other local LERO’s and attend College of Lived Experience Recovery Organisations (CLERO) meetings.

**Key Activities**
- To ensure efficient and effective delivery of SIAS’s DayHab programme.
- To feedback any concerns or ideas for improvement of the DayHab programme to the Recovery Services Manager.
- To timetable and oversee the work of recovery coaches and peer mentors involved in the delivery of the SIAS DayHab programme.
- The recruitment, training, deployment and ongoing development of all SIAS peer supporters (volunteers still in treatment) and SIAS peer mentors (volunteers in abstinence-based recovery).
- To champion peer supporter and peer mentor needs and communicate these needs to the Recovery Services Manager and other SIAS staff.
- To work alongside the Recovery Co-ordinator and cover that role when necessary.
- To share in the 'on call' rota for evenings, weekends and public holidays with the Recovery Services Manager and Recovery Co-ordinator.
- To develop and maintain excellent working links/partnerships with referring agencies.

**Main Responsibilities and Duties**
- Be confident and competent to manage delivery of a robust structured program of recovery - the SIAS DayHab programme.
- Be responsible for the needs of recovery coaches, peer mentors and service users associated with the SIAS DayHab programme and communicating these needs to the Recovery Services Manager and other SIAS staff.
- Be confident and competent working with service users using the ‘Recovery Planner’ as a tool to assess and build on recovery capital for each individual client.
- Use simple outcome tools (e.g. Substance Use Recovery Evaluator (SURE) to monitor the development of recovery capital and progress in service users’ recovery journey.
- Write service review reports and other reports as necessary.
- Attend review meetings concerning peer supporters and peer mentors and champion their role and needs within the SIAS contract.
- Oversee the process of regular review meetings to plan and monitor the care of service users attending the SIAS DayHab programme.
- Oversee the setting up and implementation of personal recovery plans for service users attending the SIAS DayHab programme.
- Be able to facilitate groups and activities.
- Assist new staff and peer mentors and form part of the Recovery Services staff development pathway.
- To support the Recovery Services Manager with management and recruitment of staff, peer supporters and peer mentors.
- To collaborate with partners and stakeholders in reducing the stigma around addiction.
- Be willing to travel to, and work from, different locations as required.
- To record and input client data and information in order that the service operates within contractual requirements.
- Work within the CLERO framework to ensure a lived experience approach is at the forefront of the recovery services delivery.
- Attend CLERO meetings as a representative of the SIAS recovery LERO.

**The focus of all interventions for service users will be**:

- To support service users through the recovery process with a view to them maintaining long-term recovery.
- To help people in addiction treatment acquire the resources and skills they need to sustain their recovery over time.
- Identify, quantify and develop service users’ recovery capital.
- To support desistance from crime, freedom from dependence and inspire active citizenship.
- Use simple measures of recovery capital and progress in the recovery journey (e.g. SURE).
- To inspire healthier lives and wellbeing.
- To provide effective coaching, identifying and encouraging areas of strength, skill and opportunity for service users.
- To use evidenced-based interventions based o