Recovery Champion

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 Recovery Champion who has the skills and experience to work with service users initiating, building, and utilising recovery capital to move into long term sustained recovery.

Where: Hull

Full Time Salary: £25,077.00 (pro rata)

Full Time Hours: 37.5 per week (full time)

* 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.

Responsibilities

• Promote visible recovery
• Initiate and maintain links with the recovery community and mutual aid
• Provide positive role model support to service users
• To be involved in promoting and ensuring service user involvement across the service
• To engage and re-engage service users into treatment
• Promote healthier lifestyles and increase service user choice
• Promote and support individuals into both abstinence based and medically assisted forms of recovery
• To reduce alcohol and drug related harm to the individual and wider community
• Engage with a comprehensive training programme
• Contribute to the overall performance of the service to ensure that targets are achieved

About you: 

• Lived experience of drug or/and alcohol misuse 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills along with good IT skills 
• Be able to build relationships with individuals with multiple needs, whilst remaining empathetic and non-judgemental towards Service Users 
• Confident in working alone as well as part of a team 
• Can remain calm under pressure 
• Able to travel as required, including where public transport is not available 

What we will give to you: 

The post-holder will be expected to take responsibility for personal development, identifying personal training needs and participate in regular supervision and appraisal.

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. 

Please note: This role is not eligible fo visa sponsorship if you require it to work in the UK. More information about eligible roles and occupations can be found here: Skilled Worker visa: Overview - GOV.UK