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About the Role
As an Opiate Team Recovery Coordinator, you'll work alongside people receiving opiate treatment and recovery support, helping them navigate challenges, reduce harm, improve their health and move towards sustainable recovery outcomes. By supporting individuals to achieve meaningful change, you'll contribute to stronger families, healthier communities and lives transformed through recovery.
Responsibilities
- Work alongside people receiving opiate treatment and recovery support.
- Help individuals navigate challenges, reduce harm, improve their health, and move towards sustainable recovery outcomes.
- Build meaningful relationships with people accessing the service.
- Collaborate to understand aspirations, identify opportunities, and overcome barriers to recovery.
- Tailor support reflecting individual needs, strengths, and goals.
- Utilize assessment, recovery planning, and evidence-based interventions to help people make informed decisions about their treatment, wellbeing, and future.
- Support individuals to engage with treatment, improve physical and mental health, reconnect with their community, or pursue education, employment, or volunteering.
- Work closely with clinical colleagues, healthcare professionals, social care teams, housing providers, and community partners to deliver coordinated and person-centred support.
- Advocate to ensure people have access to resources, opportunities, and networks that strengthen long-term recovery.
Requirements
- Experience working with people facing multiple and complex challenges.
- Understanding of recovery-focused approaches, harm reduction, and person-centred practice.
- Strong communication and relationship-building skills.
- Confidence engaging with people from diverse backgrounds and experiences.
- Knowledge of safeguarding, risk management, and professional boundaries.
- Ability to manage competing priorities and maintain high-quality case management.
- Commitment to equality, inclusion, and empowering others.
- Belief in people's ability to change and passion for helping them achieve their goals.
- Must have the right to work in the UK.
- This role is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at an enhanced level.
Skills
- Compassion
- Resilience
- Communication
- Relationship-building
- Safeguarding
- Risk management
- Case management
Location
- Newham
Work Type
- Full Time
- Fixed term contract
Experience Level
- Experience working with people facing multiple and complex challenges
- Experience within substance use services, health and social care, criminal justice, housing, mental health services or other environments supporting individuals with complex needs is beneficial.
Salary/Compensations
- CGL points 23 to 28 (£28,557.79 - £32,802.41) pro rata
- Inner London Weighting (£4,236.47) pro rata
Benefits
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, rising to 30 days with service
- A paid weekly Wellness Hour
- Access to wellbeing resources and Employee Assistance Programme
- Contributory pension scheme
- A range of employee benefits and high-street discounts
- Extensive learning and development opportunities
- Career progression opportunities
- Supportive, inclusive and values-driven culture
About the Company
- At Change Grow Live, we believe that everyone has the potential to change, grow and live a healthier, more fulfilling life.
- We are committed to building a diverse workforce that reflects the communities we serve.
- We are one of the UK's leading health and social care charities.
Equal Opportunity
- We actively welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, identities and experiences, including those with lived experience.
- We know that different perspectives strengthen our teams and help us deliver better outcomes for the people we support.
- Even if you don't meet every requirement listed, we'd encourage you to apply if you're excited by the opportunity and believe you can make a positive impact.