Recovery Worker

Do you want to work for a caring organisation that believes in people?

Do you want to make a difference?

As a Recovery Worker with Change Grow Live you’ll work with people who use our services, helping them get to where they want to be.

You will join a new team which has been created to extend our successful Family Safeguarding model into our Children Looked After Service. This model is a framework which has been highlighted as a beacon of best practice in the Government’s recent National Review into the tragic murders of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes and Star Hobson.

The review concluded that: “Practice frameworks such as Family Safeguarding Hertfordshire have shown us the great value of bringing highly skilled, multi-agency professionals together into a single team with a shared vision and purpose.”

The Family Safeguarding model centres around a multi-disciplinary team who are trained in Motivational Interviewing, a counselling approach that creates confidence in parents to change their behaviours that cause harm to their children.

This extension of the Family Safeguarding model to children in care sets out to empower families, and their extended networks to help children achieve the best outcomes by having parental mental health, substance misuse and domestic abuse specialists all working in one team, alongside children’s social workers and life coaches.

Where: Hatfield

Full Time Hours: 37.5 per week

Full Time Salary Range: £27,861.26 - £32,002.35 dependant on experience (based on full time working hours, paid pro rata for part time)

Allowance: Outer Fringe Weighting £694.25 (based on full time working hours, paid pro rata for part time)

Contract: 12 Month Fixed Term Contract. 

*Please note: 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. 

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  
• 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  
• Research, design and prepare subject matter and materials for groups / pods.  
• Deliver structured content within group settings to service users at various stages of recovery  
• Engage with debriefing and evaluations with co-facilitators after groups/pods have taken place, reviewing progress and identifying concerns with service users  
• Tailor specific workshops around the needs of the service users, such as: anger management, sleep disorders, relationships, etc  

About you:

• Have a strong understanding of substance misuse issues and experience of working within a similar field
• Experience of working with groups/pods and managing group dynamics, such as conflict or challenging behaviour.
• 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 “Capped at 30 days”
• 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

The successful candidate will need to complete an enhanced DBS check and obtain HMPPS security clearance.

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 for visa sponsorship. Applicants must already have the right to work in the UK at the time of application. For applicants with time-limited visas, unfortunately, we are unable to support new visa applications or extensions.

We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if we receive a high number of applications, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.