Relational Recovery Practitioner

Relational Recovery Practitioner

**Responsible to**:
Service Manager

**Responsible for**:
N/A

**Hours of Work**:
37.5 hrs per week as per agreed rota - shift work including weekends

**Location**:
YMCA Together - RISE Rehab

**Salary and benefits**:
£26,321 per annum
- 33 days annual leave plus bank holidays per annum (pro rata)
- Paid Medicash support
- Day off for your birthday
- Charity day of your choice
- Well-being Hours
- Cycle To Work Scheme
- Refer a Friend Scheme
- Company Pension Scheme 4%
- Funded Training Opportunities

YMCA Together is a registered charity and company Limited by Guarantee. We were founded in 1846 and so we build on a long history of providing a place for people experiencing challenging times in their lives.

YMCA Together is a truly value driven organisation.

Our vision is that everyone should feel safe, understood, empowered and positive for their future. We meet our vision by working within our values of Strength, Humility, Respect, Empathy and Kindness. These SHREK values run through all that we do from recruitment to how we work alongside people in our services to our partnership approach with other providers.

Our clear vision and values come together to help us in our mission to inspire and support people to change their lives by instilling hope, valuing the person and maximising potential.

**Service**

The post holder will be based in South Liverpool. The rehabilitation service will be in a residential setting for people with substance misuse issues. The service will offer a fully integrated model incorporating elements of pre-engagement, a treatment programme and ongoing support, in a supported housing setting, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and 365 days a year for a minimum of 30 single people at any one time.

We ensure that every service we deliver is psychologically informed and underpinned by Cognitive Analytic Therapy offering a wide range of support and assistance that empowers and enables people to have a range of choices and create positive, sustainable futures for themselves.

**Hours of Work**

The service will be staffed 24/7 and the post holder will be working a rota of early and late shifts over 7 days including weekends and bank holidays.

**Job Purpose**

Relational Recovery Practitioners will be responsible for holding a case load of Service Managers. Their role will be to deliver evidenced based, therapeutic one to one and group recovery interventions and support.

All staff will be expected to undergo Cognitive Analytic Therapy Skills Training (CAT) this will provide a framework for understanding and working with individuals and colleagues in managing psychological and relational aspects of mental health, personality disorder and high-risk behaviours. Training will also be provided around Trauma Informed Care. These approaches will be used for planning and assessing effectiveness of a variety of interventions and risk management.

**Duties and Responsibilities**

The Relational Recovery Practitioners will be responsible for managing a small caseload of Service Users and will have to deliver and coordinate group and one to one interventions.
- Providing therapeutic support that empowers them to plan a positive and sustainable future.
- Support Planning, risk assessing and safeguarding
- Delivery of interpersonal group work programme
- SU Involvement and engagement
- Activity co-ordination
- Resettlement
- Reporting/ Monitoring

**Support Planning and Risk Assessing**
- Provide a high level of therapeutic support as the lead case worker to the service user that empowers them to plan a positive and sustainable future
- Support people to achieve their goals and targets as defined/ agreed within their recovery plans
- Manage, update and communicate service users risk assessments in line with LYMCA/City Wide policy and procedure
- Plan and facilitate evidenced based, therapeutic one to one and group interventions
- Plan and facilitate workshops to individuals and groups that inform/ teach service users around healthy relationships, promote healthy lifestyles, how to manage a tenancy, manage a home and live independently
- Ensure people shape their own support and take part in activities

**Household Involvement and Engagement**
- Encourage involvement, participation and co-production from people in the running and development of the service
- Provide a safe, welcoming environment with excellent standards and an ethos of service delivery that encourages people to engage
- Ensure appropriate recommendations are made for the use of the Service User Personalisation Budget

**Multi Agency Working**
- Encourage and support to people with additional needs ensuring all appropriate referrals are made
- Promote and encourage the pathway to independence working to a Whole Family Approach
- Acting as nominated champion to maintain key partnerships and links

**Resettlement**
- Create a platform for move on to independent accommodation
- Provide intensive res