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Criminal Justice Recovery Coordinator

Location Kings Lynn-Norfolk
Job ID 2024-15387
Number of Vacancies Remaining
1
Category
Health and Social Care Practitioner
Type of Contract
Fixed term employee
Duration (# of months)
12
Contracted Hours Per Week
37.50
Salary Range (pro rata if part time)
CGL points 23 to 28 (£27,449.52 - £31,529.41)
ILW / OLW /Fringe
N/A - Outside London Weighting Area
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Overview

Believe in People?

The best people have one thing in common.

They care.

Join Us in Making a Real Difference: Join our Criminal Justice Team at our Norfolk Kings Lynn Service as a Recovery Coordinator!

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.

 

We have an exciting opportunity for a Criminal Justice Recovery Coordinator who has the skills and experience to assess and engage with our service users, ensuring that they access the right intervention at the right time, in a way that best meets their needs. With this role you’ll be working as part of Criminal Justice Team in Kings Lynn, Norfolk. The service supports people with their or their loved ones’ drug and/or alcohol issues who have been involved with the criminal justice system. 

  

No two days are the same and we treat every person who comes into our service as an individual, so being flexible, curious and a good listener are key. 

 

Where: Kings Lynn

Hours: Full Time, 37.5h per week

Salary: £27,449.53 - £31,529.41 Depending on experience (Based on full time hours, pro rata for part time)

Contract Type: Fixed Term until March 31st 2026

Responsibilities

About the role: 

 

  • 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 drug and alcohol related harm to service users and the wider community
  • Promoting carer, service user and community involvement
  • Providing advocacy for access to partnership services
  • Motivational Interviewing
  • Children’s & adult safeguarding
  • Liaison and partnership working including police, probation, courts, prisons.
  • Substance awareness
  • Working with service users to support social (re)integration, enabling them to lead meaningful and purposeful lives: promoting recovery, resilience, peer support and self-determination

 

About you: 

 

  • Have a strong understanding of substance misuse issues and/or experience of working within a similar field
  • 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
  • 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 with each years’ service (capped at 30, allocated pro rata)
  • Paid ‘Wellness’ hour each week along with a ‘Wellness’ hub and Employee Assist Programme
  • Contributory pension scheme
  • Several benefits incl. discounts for shopping, cinema, holidays, etc.
  • A friendly and supportive team
  • Training, career development & progression opportunities
  • generous refer-a-friend scheme

Our values are to be compassionate, open and bold. If this sounds like you we’d love to hear from you so click apply.

If this sounds like you and you’d like to begin your journey with Change Grow Live, then we’d love to talk to you. 

 

Please ensure that when completing your application form and supporting statement, you reflect on the details outlined in the job description. This will help us understand how your skills and experiences align with the requirements of the role. 

 

If you require sponsorship, please note that this role is not eligible for a Health and Care Worker visa. You may be eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route but must meet the minimum salary requirements for the role. You can find out more here Skilled Worker visa: Overview - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Salary Range (pro rata if part time)

CGL points 23 to 28 (£27,449.52 - £31,529.41)

ILW / OLW /Fringe

N/A - Outside London Weighting Area

Interview Date

25/2/2025

Closing Date

18/2/2025

If you have any questions on this opportunity that you would like to talk through please contact us using the below details:

Dee Lunn | dee.lunn@cgl.org.uk | 07741 326238

 

This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at an enhanced level.

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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.