Lived Experience Recovery Support Apprentice

3 days ago

StocktononTees, United Kingdom Recovery Connections Full time

**Three roles available for this job**:
The Lived Experience Recovery Support Specialist project in Stockton is a three-year project, funded by Stockton Borough Council. The aim of the project is to improve health, wellbeing, and life chances for people with multiple disadvantage in Stockton-on-Tees using an asset-based approach to working with individuals.

As a Lived Experience Recovery Support Specialist apprentice you will build workplace experience and core competencies including a relevant qualification.

You will work alongside colleagues to identify and support people with multiple disadvantage in the Stockon -on-Tees area.

Multiple Disadvantage refers to the experience of three or more of the following: homelessness; substance misuse; contact with the criminal justice system; domestic abuse victim/survivor and/or perpetrator; and mental health problems

You will engage people using your lived experience and work with colleagues to travel alongside in a way that promotes hope, optimises engagement and connection. We envisage the majority of this work to be undertaken on an outreach basis.

Your role will be to build relationships and work alongside the people we support. You will work alongside colleagues to work with people to support them to identify their growth goals - this is what matters most to them to achieve change. You will then work with colleagues alongside the person to work towards achieving their identified goals. Your work will be rooted in a strength-based approach and will be trauma-informed.

This post requires flexible working to ensure consistent cover and some occasional out of hours working over a 7-day period

**Key Duties include**:

- Assist in supporting people to identify their own growth goals
- Assist in working alongside people as they work towards their own self-identified growth goals, at their own pace.
- Assist in building relationships with people and explore a way forward in relation to their support needs.
- Utilise your own lived experience to build relationships and trust, offering hope as a tool for positive change.
- Knowledge and understanding of the impact of multiple disadvantage
- Provide general information and advice to people on the assets within their community and help them discover the assets they have to share.
- Acknowledge and challenge stigma in order to reduce barriers for the people we support.
- Help identify changes needed to systems and services in order to improve the outcomes for people facing multiple disadvantages.
- Contribute to a positive workplace culture to ensure that everyone feels supported, can develop and are motivated to work effectively, treating people fairly, with dignity and respect.
- Where necessary and appropriate, participate alongside colleagues in regular multi-disciplinary review meetings and complete notes/reports as appropriate.
- Communicate professionally over the phone and in person with anybody contacting the service.
- Assist in collating relevant data and information for monitoring and evaluation processes.
- Complete administrative tasks in an accurate and timely manner.
- Perform as a full team member supporting colleagues across the service and being open to reasonable requests from line management in order to ensure effective working relationships.
- Such other responsibilities allocated which are appropriate to the grade of the post.
- Understand, uphold and work with the values, ethos, aims and objectives of the organisation.

**Staff have the opportunity to join the Electric Car Scheme, and have access to a Medicash** **Health Plan (after 3 months), alongside generous holiday entitlements starting at 26 days, and rising to 28 and 30 days after one and two years of service, respectively. Wellbeing events take place throughout the year, and the charity promotes the value of a good work-life balance. Regular training opportunities are provided across all roles, which come with a 3% employer-contribution pension scheme.**

**Salary**: £10.90 per hour

Expected hours: 37.5 per week

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Sick pay

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 26/03/2024

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