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Recovery Coordinator - Family Team

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Category: Health and Social Care Practitioner
Type of Contract: Permanent employee
Contracted Hours Per Week: 37.50
Salary Range (pro rata if part time): CGL points 23 to 28 (£27,861.26 - £32,002.35)
ILW / OLW /Fringe: N/A - Outside London Weighting Area
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Overview

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 Family Recovery Coordinator who has the skills and experience to assess and engage with our service users and their families, ensuring that they access the right intervention at the right time, in a way that best meets their needs. 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: Based Dewsbury (may work across Kirklees)

Hours: Full Time, 37.5 hrs per week

Salary: £27,861.26 - £32,002.35 dependent on experience (Based on full time hours, pro rata for part time)

Responsibilities

About the role:

Supporting service users from point of entry into the service and through their treatment/recovery journey
Reducing drug and alcohol related harm to service users and their family
Promoting carer, service user and community involvement
Providing advocacy for access to partnership services
Working with service users to support social (re)integration, enabling them to lead meaningful and purposeful lives: promoting recovery, resilience, family relationships, peer support and self-determination
The role is based across the Kirklees area and as the family team we deliver our interventions within the community and family homes, driving is desired

About you:

Have a good understanding of substance misuse issues and experience of working with people
Be an excellent communicator, both verbal and skills in defensible documentation
Proactive and able to work on own initiative with excellent time management and prioritising skills
Have a good working knowledge of family services and frameworks and interventions for whole family practices
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
Ability to demonstrate professional curiosity, caseload management and flexibility to achieve personalised treatment and care
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 to 30 days holiday (+ bank holidays) after 5 years of service
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, gym membership and cycling equiptment etc.
A friendly and supportive team
Regular supervision
Participation in our Refer-a-Friend scheme with vouchers if candidate successful
Training, career development & progression opportunities

If you are bold, compassionate and open and want to empower others to reach their recovery goals, we would love to hear from you.

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)

Full-time hours at Change Grow Live are 37.5 hours per week. For part-time roles, the salary and payments will be pro rata based on contracted hours.

Salary Range (pro rata if part time)

CGL points 23 to 28 (£27,861.26 - £32,002.35)

ILW / OLW /Fringe

N/A - Outside London Weighting Area

Interview Date

1/7/2025

Closing Date

24/6/2025

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

Hannah Graham | Hannah.Graham@cgl.org.uk | 07917562213

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.

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