Substance Issues Recovery Coordinator
| Posting date: | 18 November 2025 |
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| Salary: | £14.4 to £16.6 per hour |
| Additional salary information: | £14.40 - £16.60 |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 25 November 2025 |
| Location: | City Of Manchester, Greater Manchester, M4 1BT |
| Company: | Hays Specialist Recruitment |
| Job type: | Temporary |
| Job reference: | 4734743_1763478691 |
Summary
Join the team at a well-known charity in Manchester City Centre as a Recovery Co-ordinator working alongside the Recovery team, reporting into the Leadership team.
This is a temporary role, for a minimum of 3 months and aim to start as soon as possible.
We are offering full-time hours of 40 hours a week, from Monday to Friday.
Enhanced DBS on the Update Service is a requirement for this role.
Experience in a similar role and dealing with substance issues is essential.
Your new role
- Engaging service users from initial contact and supporting them throughout their treatment and recovery process
- Carrying out initial screenings, conducting assessments, developing recovery-focused plans and coordinating referrals to appropriate services
- Minimising the impact of substance misuse through targeted interventions
- Encouraging active participation from both internal and external parties to strengthen support systems
- Acting as a liaison to help individuals access relevant external services and multi-agency support
- Assisting people in rebuilding social connections and routines, empowering them to live fulfilling lives through resilience, peer engagement, and self-directed recovery
What you'll need to succeed
- Experience in a similar setting, dealing with substance misuse/dependency and giving relevant harm reduction advice
- Must have experience managing own caseload.
- Provide frontline support including duty cover, triage, appointment scheduling and occasional client assessments
- Coordinate tailored care plans using motivational techniques, incorporating psychosocial support, clinical input and harm reduction strategies
- Conduct comprehensive assessments with community resource mapping and goal-driven recovery planning
- Act as lead care coordinator for service users, overseeing progress reviews and multi-agency referrals
- Enhanced DBS on the update service is necessary.
What you'll get in return
- Weekly Pay
- Option to be paid PAYE or Umbrella
- Full Time hours
What you need to do now
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