Project Coordinator - Scunthorpe, United Kingdom - Double Impact Services

Description

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INSPIRING CHANGE AND POSITIVE CHOICE
Double Impact is a registered charity and not for profit organisation, established in 1998.


Our Mission is to provide a quality service, which promotes recovery and community integration for people who have experienced problematic drug and alcohol use. This is achieved by providing opportunities for personal development, recovery orientation, healthy choices, education, vocational training, and pathways to volunteering and employment.

By placing our service users' needs at the heart of our ethos and their own treatment experience, we provide a uniquely holistic, flexible service.

We believe that with the right support everybody can recover and that in recovery anything is possible.


We have an exciting new opportunity to join our team, we are looking for a.

Project Coordinator

Contract Type:
Fixed Term Contract initially for 2 years


Hours:
Full Time, 37 Hours per week (Monday to Friday) _(Potential to close at 7pm on one night a week and occasional outside office hours if required)_


Salary:
circ £27,500 per annum


Location:
Scunthorpe Recovery Service

Scunthorpe Recovery Service aims to develop a comprehensive recovery service to meet the needs of individuals exiting drug and alcohol treatment (or self-referring from the local community) and building on the positive outcomes gained during that process.

We will deliver responsive services designed to connect service users to internal and external recovery opportunities including group programmes, training and mutual aid.

Our service provides pathways and opportunities for individuals to progress through co-produced Recovery and Personal Development Plans.

Scunthorpe Recovery Service works in partnership with the local treatment provider We Are With You, to ensure that all service users are fully informed of the opportunities and activities available to them e.g.

• Recovery orientation and facilitation
• Connection, empowerment and Recovery Community
• Connection to Community assets and opportunities
• Pathways into training, volunteering and work experience.

The successful person in this role will coordinate the development and delivery of this service.

They will have responsibility for the day to day running and managing of the service and the small team of staff and volunteers and be the local recovery champion.

We are looking for the following:

• Experience of working with people who have/had problems with substance use.
• Direct or indirect lived experience of drug/alcohol use problems.
• Experience of delivering training/ group work.
• Experience of working with individuals on personal development plans and strategies to maintain momentum
• Experience of supporting volunteers in the work place
• Experience of working with people from a range of social, cultural and ethnic backgrounds
• Experience of partnership working
• Experience of managing others
• This is a great opportunity to join the team at the start of an exciting new project. If you would like to know more and for an informal chat about this opportunity, please do not hesitate to contact Stephen Bunting on _

Double Impact embraces diversity and takes a pro-active approach to equality in services and employment. Registered Charity No

Application deadline: 04/03/2024


Job Type:
Fixed term contract

Contract length: 24 months


Salary:
£27,500.00 per year


Benefits:

• Company pension

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Experience:

Project Management: 1 year (preferred)


Ability to Commute:

• Scunthorpe (required)

Ability to Relocate:

• Scunthorpe: Relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location:
In person

Application deadline: 04/03/2024