Lived Experience Recovery Support Specialists - Stockton-on-Tees, United Kingdom - Recovery Connections

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Stockton-on-Tees, United Kingdom

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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 you will work directly with individuals to improve health, wellbeing, and life chances for people with multiple disadvantage in Stockton-on-Tees.

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 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 with people to support them to identify their growth goals - this is what matters most to them to achieve change.

You will then work 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:

Build 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 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.
Collate 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.
Support people to identify their own growth goals
Working alongside people as they work towards their own self-identified growth goals, at their own pace.

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:
£24,000.00-£26,000.00 per year


Benefits:


  • Company pension
  • Health & wellbeing programme
  • Sick pay

Schedule:

  • 8 hour shift
  • Monday to Friday

Work Location:
In person

Application deadline: 04/04/2024
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