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About the Role
We are recruiting for a Recovery Worker to join our Barnet service to engage and assess service users, ensuring they receive timely, personalised interventions that cater to their unique needs. This role focuses on supporting individuals with opiate dependence through their treatment and recovery journey.
Responsibilities
- 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 opiate 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, promoting recovery, resilience, peer support and self-determination
- Research, design and prepare subject matter and materials for groups / pods
- Deliver structured content within group settings to service users at various stages of recovery
- Engage with debriefing and evaluations with co-facilitators after groups/pods
- Tailor specific workshops around the needs of the service users, such as: anger management, sleep disorders, relationships
- Supporting the alcohol team with the monthly community detox
- Evening and weekend work required
Requirements
- Have a strong understanding of substance misuse issues and experience of working within a similar field
- Experience of working with groups/pods and managing group dynamics, such as conflict or challenging behaviour
- 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
- 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
- Understand the importance of information governance processes and commit to follow and apply all necessary safeguards
- Seek out learning opportunities to improve and broaden your professional knowledge and skills
- Contribute and oversee the learning and development of others
- Must have the right to work in the UK
- This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship
Skills
- Substance misuse knowledge
- Group work experience
- Conflict management
- Challenging behaviour management
- Verbal communication
- Written communication
- IT skills
- Proactive
- Time management
- Prioritisation
- Mental health interventions knowledge
- Interpersonal skills
- Partnership working
- Change management
- Information governance
- Learning and development
Location
- Barnet
Work Type
- Full Time
- Permanent
Experience Level
- Experience required
Salary/Compensations
- CGL points 23 to 28 (£28,557.79 - £32,802.41)
- Outer London Weighting (£2,250.61)
Benefits
- 25 days holiday (+ bank holidays) rising by 1 day for each years’ service (Capped at 30 days)
- Paid ‘Wellness’ hour each week
- ‘Wellness’ hub
- Employee Assist Programme
- Contributory pension scheme
- Discounts for shopping, cinema, holidays, etc.
- Friendly and supportive team
- Training, career development & progression opportunities
- Generous Refer-a-Friend Scheme
About the Company
- At Change Grow Live, we're driven by the belief that we can truly impact the lives of our service users.
- We offer a safe, supportive environment, honouring each individual and working collaboratively to identify the best treatment and care options.
- Our core values - 'Be open, be compassionate, and be bold' - guide us daily as we help people reshape their lives, grow as individuals, and embrace life to the fullest.
- Join us in our journey of empowerment and holistic support, where every individual's well-being is at the heart of what we do.
Equal Opportunity
- This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at an enhanced level.