Recovery Coordinator - Women's Specialist Prison In-Reach

Change Grow Live are a charity dedicated to the belief that we can make a difference to our Service Users lives, offering support and respect in a safe environment, treating each user as an individual and working with them to find the right treatment and care options.

Our core values are ‘Be open, be compassionate and be bold’ and our team members apply these daily to achieve our mission of helping people change the direction of their lives, grow as individuals, and live life to its full potential.

Our Ealing service has an exciting vacancy for a Womens Prison In-reach Recovery Coordinator this job has  great opportunity to make a difference in people’s lives.  

This exciting new role will provide strong partnerships and joint working within the prison and beyond to seek to reduce re-offending and improve health and well-being outcomes for people with a history of Substance Misuse. 

Where: Ealing, London

Allowances: £4,072.06 Inner London Weighting

Hours: 37.5hrs per week

Salary: £27,449.53 - £31,529.41 dependent on experience 

*Please note it is a Genuine Occupational Requirement under the Equality Act 2010 for the successful applicant to be female.

About the role:

• Hold a small caseload of service users providing needs met interventions.
• Assist in co-ordinating access to substance misuse interventions for women as part of a wider multi-disciplinary team.
• Carry out comprehensive service user assessments, including mapping of community resources and develop individual action plans that clearly identify how achieving each goal will enable progression in addressing homelessness/substance use and re/integrating into the community.
• Work closely with prison security departments when assessing risk and develop strong links with partner agencies within the prison system.
• Work as part of a team to identify people who have a history of rough sleeping and re-offending resulting in custodial sentences.
• To support information sharing and shared processes between all relevant partners to affect a safe, seamless and successful resettlement plan from prison.
• To work with local community services and/or prison establishment to ensure the provision of Naloxone and overdose prevention information is provided at the point of release.
• To signpost or refer women with mental health, offending behaviours, domestic abuse, sexual violence, in the sex industry and or who have been trafficked to the appropriate services.
• To contribute to the implementation and promotion of the service and champion women only issues.

About you:

• Knowledge and experience of providing interventions for service users affected by substance use.
• 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 with the 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 and to contribute and oversee the learning and development of others.

What we will give to you:

• 25 days holiday (+ bank holidays) rising by 1 day for each years’ service (for first 5 years).
• Paid ‘Wellness’ hour each week along with a ‘Wellness’ hub and Employee Assist Programme.
• Contributory pension scheme.
• A great selection of benefits incl. discounts for shopping, cinema, holidays, etc.
• A friendly and supportive team.
• Training, career development & progression opportunities.

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.

Please read attached Job Description for a more detailed out line of responsibilities and Person Specifications