Changing Futures Recovery Worker - Preston, United Kingdom - Change Grow Live
Description
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
We have an exciting opportunity for a Changing Futures
Recovery Worker who has the skills and experience to assess and engage with our service users, ensuring that they access the right intervention at the right time, in a way that best meets their needs.
What is Changing Futures?
- Changing Futures is a national programme focused on transforming the system around multiple disadvantages
- Aiming to create change at three levels: Individual, Service and System
Where:
Preston, Lancashire
When:
***We are looking to get the right person into the team ASAP
Hours: 37.5
Salary:
£26,393 - £30,316 dependent on experience
Responsibilities:
About the role:
- Supporting service users from point of entry into the service and through their treatment/recovery journey
- Providing screening, assessment, and recovery planning and onward referral
- Reducing drug and alcohol related harm to service users and the wider community
- Promoting carer, service user and community involvement
- Providing advocacy for access to partnership services
- Working with service users to support social (re)integration, enabling them to lead meaningful and purposeful lives: promoting recovery, resilience, peer support and selfdetermination
About you:
- Have a strong understanding of substance misuse issues and experience of working within a similar field
- 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
- Paid 'Wellness' hour each week along with a 'Wellness' hub and Employee Assist Programme
- Contributory pension scheme
- Several 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 out line of responsibilities and Person Specifications_**If this sounds like you and you would like to begin your journey with
Change Grow Live, then we would love to talk to you.
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