Recovery Navigator

**Vacancy No**

VN4424

**Employment Type**

Fixed Term

**Hours Per Week**

37.00

**Work Pattern**

Includes weekends & evenings

**Location**

8-10 Carlton Street, Halifax, HX1 2AL

**Location Region**

West Yorkshire

**Location City**

Halifax

**Location Postal Code**

HX1 2AL

**Interview Date**

17 Sep 2024

**Job Details**

**Recovery Navigator**
**closing date 06/09/2024**

**About the role**
We are excited to offer opportunities for Drug and Alcohol Recovery Navigator to join our Calderdale Recovery Steps Team. This is a dynamic and rewarding role where you will:

- Manage a caseload by creating, implementing, and reviewing ongoing recovery and treatment plans.
- Facilitate and promote the progression of individuals from initial engagement into structured treatment.
- Contribute to reducing substance-related harm to individuals and the wider community.
- Collaborate closely with key partners and colleagues to achieve the best health and wellbeing outcomes for individuals.
- Be Able to think creatively about treatment options, changes and transitions in the context of a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency approach.
- Encourage service users to become involved in the service and in service user forums in Calderdale that will enhance their experience and increase a sense of belonging.

You will provide substance misuse-specific knowledge and interventions, offering the right treatment to people, where they are at. You will be ensuring that ample treatment intensity is provided, at the appropriate pace and be able to think ahead making sure that doors are opened for enhanced recovery and mutually agreed ‘successful outcomes’ are achieved. Working to a Strength-Based Approach focusing on individuals and community assets, you will work alongside other frontline practitioners.

You will be resourceful, able to articulate yourself appropriately on behalf of your service users and resilient to change and challenges. To support this, alongside line management and multi-disciplinary clinical meetings, you will be provided with regular psychologist led reflective practice.

**_Working hours - 37 hours per week including evenings and weekends_**
**_please note this is a fixed term position for 12 months_**

To view the full job description and person specification for this role, please **click here.**
- ‘The salary advertised above demonstrates the full earning potential for this role, starting salaries will allow for pay progression within the pay band’_

**Who are we**
Humankind is one of England’s most successful home-grown charities. We provide free, confidential support for alcohol, drugs, housing, or mental health in friendly local places across the UK. We are committed to fair chances for all and making sure everyone can access the help and support they need to realise their potential. By joining our teams of passionate individuals, you will be contributing to making this happen. You can really make a difference by believing in our service users and their ability to make positive changes when they don’t always believe in themselves.

We are incredibly proud of the work that we do to help address health inequalities in England. Every five minutes, an individual accesses one of our services, and we have supported over 90,000 people across all our services last year. Check out our impact report **here** to read more about the important work that we have done.

**What can Humankind offer you**
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Generous annual leave entitlement (27 days, plus bank holidays, increasing to 32 after 1 years’ service)- Annual leave purchase scheme- Enhanced occupational sick pay- %
Enhanced employer contribution to your workplace pension- Death in service benefit- Free Will writing- Eyecare vouchers- ️
Blue light card discount- Fantastic learning and development opportunities, including free training courses- Work-life balance
- flexible working and family friendly policies- ️
- Happy, Healthy You - our wellbeing offers for our workforce- Employee Assist Programme and Humankind Support Networks**Humankind is an equal opportunities employer**

**Salary Period**

**Vacancy Salary Range**

£24,020-£30,790

**DBS Requirement**

Enhanced

**Does role require Police/Prison vetting?**

Not Applicable

**Driving licence required for role?**

Yes

**Applications Close Date**

06 Sep 2024