Recovery Coordinator (Female Specific)

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

Have you the energy and drive to help launch a new initiative within our Nottinghamshire substance misuse service? Are you passionate about supporting vulnerable women? Do you understand the complex needs of women & how to support them through their treatment journey?

A fantastic, new opportunity has arisen to become a Women's worker within our Nottinghamshire Change Grow Live service. Some women may have experienced trauma & have a genuine reason not to be able to work with men, do you have experience in this area?

You will deliver a bespoke service to complex females with substance misuse issues, including assertive outreach to women who are homeless, and women living in refuges, with a view to enabling them to access services and improve their life opportunities. This role will involve a lot of multi-agency working with other agencies and female specific services, so experience in working this way is essential.

You will be open, compassionate, and driven to provide the very best care and support for everyone.  You will need to be self-motivated with excellent communication skills and be comfortable working with multiple teams internally and externally.

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

Where: Mansfield

Hours: Full time, 37.5 hours

Contract Type: Fixed term until 31st September 2026 

Full Time Salary: £27,861.26 - £32,002.35 pro rata*

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.

With this role you’ll be working as part of multidiplinary team, based in Mansfield

The post holder will work as an integral part of the multi-disciplinary team at the West Locality to deliver high quality provision by:

• Supporting vulnerable female 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.

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

Based on Section 7(2) (e) of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 applies to this post there is a genuine
occupational requirement for the successful candidate in this role to be a female