Through The Gate Coordinator

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.

Our core values are

Working as a
**Through The Gate Recovery Coordinator **with
**Change Grow Live** is a rewarding role where you can utilise your people skills to make a real difference in the lives of those suffering with substance misuse problems. Supporting our service users from point of entry into the service and through their recovery journey, helping with social re-integration and enabling them to lead purposeful and meaningful lives.

We are currently recruiting a
**Through the Gate**
**Recovery Coordinator **to work as part of the newly implemented Southwest Prisons service. Working closely with clients due to be released, you will develop relationships and co-design plans to ensure continuity of their care once they have been released.

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**:HMP Channings Wood

**When**:We are looking to get the right person into the team ASAP

**Hours**:37.5hrs per week

**Salary**: £26,393 - £30,316 dependent on experience

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

- Work intensively with patients for 12 weeks prior to and post-release
- Design holistic resettlement plans to support the continuity of healthcare once our clients are released from prison
- Complete secondary screening assessment of patients arriving to prison as part of Integrated Health and Wellbeing model of service delivery
- Work closely with CGL teams, healthcare, prison partners and external support agencies to ensure effective coordination of release planning
- Providing advocacy for access to partnership services
- Contribute to risk management processes, including prison ACCT process as appropriate
- Work closely with Through the Gate provision, Healthcare, Prison partners and External Support Agencies to ensure effective coordination of Release Planning
- Working with service users to support social (re)integration, enabling them to lead meaningful and purposeful lives: promoting recovery, resilience, peer support and self-determination

**About you**:

- Have a strong understanding of substance misuse issues and experience of working within a similar field ideally within prison/criminal justice
- 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

**What we will give to you**:

- 25 days holiday (+ bank holidays) rising by 1 day for each years’ service
- Flexible and home working arrangements
- 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

**_ Please read attached Job Description for a more detailed outline of responsibilities and Person Specification_**

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.