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About the Role

Change Grow Live is seeking an Opiate Recovery Coordinator for their Tower Hamlets Opiate Team. This role involves assessing and engaging service users to ensure they receive the right intervention at the right time. The team is dynamic and collaborative, comprising a service manager, medical professionals, nurses, recovery staff, volunteers, administrators, and peer mentors.

Responsibilities

Support opiate service users prescribed opiate substitute medication.
Perform care coordination, recovery planning, risk assessment, risk management planning, and client-centered reviews.
Deliver psychosocial interventions to reduce disengagement, harm, and associated criminality.
Provide screening, assessment, recovery planning, and onward referral.
Reduce drug and alcohol-related harm to service users and the wider community.
Promote carer, service user, and community involvement.
Provide advocacy for access to partnership services.
Work with service users to support social (re)integration, promoting recovery, resilience, peer support, and self-determination.

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 not eligible for visa sponsorship.

Skills

Opiate recovery coordination
Assessment and engagement
Psychosocial interventions
Screening
Recovery planning
Risk assessment
Risk management planning
Client-centered reviews
Harm reduction
Person-centred practice
Communication
Relationship-building
Safeguarding
Case management

Location

Tower Hamlets

Work Type

Full Time
37.5 hours per week

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.

Salary/Compensations

CGL points 23 to 28 (£28,557.79 - £32,802.41) pro rata if part time
Inner London Weighting (£4,236.47)

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, our commitment to making a difference in the lives of those who use our services is unwavering.
We provide support, respect, and a safe environment, where we tailor our approach to each individual's needs to find the best treatment and support options.
Guided by our core values of being open, compassionate and bold, our team embodies these principles daily, striving to empower individuals to reshape their lives, foster personal growth, and embrace life to its fullest.
We are one of the UK's leading health and social care charities.

Equal Opportunity

A commitment to equality, inclusion and empowering others