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Recovery Coordinator - Job ID:2022-6994

Gloucestershire

Type of Contract: Permanent

Overview

Are you passionate about supporting people to achieve positive outcomes?

We are looking for exceptional people to coordinate the care and support of people going through recovery from drugs and/or alcohol.

You need to have experience of managing caseloads of people and know how to manage risk and minimise harm. You will also need knowledge of substance misuse through personal recovery experience, academic study or from a previous professional role.

Responsibilities

You will be focused on helping people to achieve positive outcomes by coordinating their personalised recovery journey. You will oversee their participation in group coaching, courses, treatment, and medical assessments whilst continually managing risk and minimizing harm.

You will be open, compassionate, and driven to provide the very best care and support for everyone. 

You will need to be self-motivated with excellent communication skills and be comfortable working with multiple teams internally and externally.

Successful candidates have previously worked in the following areas:

• Support worker within elderly care or with adults with a learning disability
• Prison service
• Children’s services, supporting young people
• Rehabilitation services
• Hospitals and other medical practices

To be successful you will need to have:

• Experience in managing caseloads of people within a CQC registered service
• An understanding of drug and alcohol issues and experience of working within a related field.
• A commitment to multi-agency working and establishing partnerships with other professions
• Accomplished written and verbal communication skills and a high degree of personal IT competency.
• The ability to accurately update and maintain records in a timely fashion and to work to deadlines for the submission of information, e.g. reports.
• Excellent time management skills, and an ability to work on own initiative, prioritising accordingly.
• Excellent team working and interpersonal skills, maintaining a highly cooperative approach to supporting colleagues in delivering service objectives.
• Good working knowledge of mental health interventions, services and good practice.

For further information, and to apply, please visit our website by clicking on Apply Now.

If you have any questions on this opportunity that you would like to talk through, please contact us using the details to the right of this advert.

This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at an enhanced level.
We believe that having diverse people working as part of our team makes us the organisation that we are.

We actively encourage applications from people from all backgrounds to help us to provide the best possible experience for the people who use our services and to make Change Grow Live a great place to work. If you have any feedback on our recruitment processes (good or bad) we’d love to hear from you so that we can make sure they are fair and we attract and recruit the best, most diverse workforce possible.

The safety of vulnerable children, young people and adults is our absolute priority. We will support you in your role to make sure that you are equipped to support the safety of people who use our services and those around them, to the highest standard possible.

Closing date for applications: 3/6/2022

Salary: (pro rata if part time): CGL points 23 to 28 (£24,193.77 - £28,116.74)

Hours Per Week: 37.5

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