Recovery Coordinator
| Posting date: | 18 October 2024 |
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| Salary: | £15 to £19 per hour |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 17 November 2024 |
| Location: | Birmingham, West Midlands, B2 4DU |
| Company: | Morgan Hunt UK Ltd |
| Job type: | Temporary |
| Job reference: | JN -092024-210985_1729236431 |
Summary
Job Title: Recovery Coordinator
Location: South Birmingham
Hours: 37/ Monday - Friday
Job type: Temp to perm
Hourly Rate: £15 - £17 PAYE (£17 - £20 UMBRELLA)
Industry: Substance Misuse
Key Responsibilities:
- 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
- To undertake co-location partnership work in order to engage service users.
- To offer assertive follow up and increased retention and establish links with partner agencies to ensure that the service can attract treatment naive Service Users into treatment
- Provide assertive outreach to clients' homes and support to appointments ensuring social inclusion and maximizing engagement.
- Providing flexible assertive outreach support to engage service users into treatment across the Birmingham locality. The key role will be to increase the number of Service Users from within the community who at present do not enter treatment services.
- The Post Holder will utilise their skills and experience to continue to work and develop partnerships, develop specific referral pathways into recovery services, lead and contribute to specific outreach activity and specialise in all areas of the development. The post holder will, in partnership with other organisations, identify barriers into treatment and work on creating and delivering solutions to these barriers. Some elements of the role will involve intelligence gathering and in partnership with other organisations highlight and identify Drug Users from within community areas that do not currently access 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
- Knowledge of local services and geography.
- A full driving licence and access to own transport is desirable
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Morgan Hunt is a multi-award-winning recruitment Business for interim, contract and temporary recruitment and acts as an Employment Agency in relation to temporary vacancies. Morgan Hunt is an equal opportunities employer, job suitability are assessed on merit in accordance with their skills, qualifications and abilities to perform the relevant duties required in a particular role.