Recovery Co-ordinator

About the role

As a Recovery Coordinator you will provide collaborative recovery planning and case management to substance misusers (drug and alcohol) across all stages of individuals' recovery journeys, from assessment and engagement through to sustained recovery. Main responsibilities will include the following: Manage a service user caseload, devising, implementing and reviewing on-going recovery plans and treatment, liaising closely with the full range of workers and skills within the service team, including family members and significant others as appropriate. Carry out triage/screening assessments and comprehensive assessments with service users. Work collaboratively with partner agencies to undertake shared assessments, key working and interventions to promote individual service user progression from engagement, through structured treatment to self-sustained recovery. Facilitate service user access to treatment and community resources to increase recovery and social capital, supporting service users and their families within their local community. Lead effective case management for allocated service users, including on-going processes such as risk assessments, risk management plans and safeguarding assessments and plans. This includes the effective use of an online case management system. Work closely and collaboratively within the multi-disciplinary team across the service and externally, providing advice and reports/ information to managers and other colleagues, through attendance at reviews, team meetings, supervision and via telephone conversations. Improve outcomes for children, parents/carers and families of services users by reducing the impact of drug and alcohol related harm on family life and promote positive family involvement in recovery. Develop and deliver quality programs and packages of work/ psychosocial interventions that meet local need across both group work and one to one formats. Identify and prevent potential harm to service users and others by following local and organisational safeguarding guidelines, including referral to and engagement with relevant safeguarding authorities Support delivery of key service functions through actively participating in drug screening, duty work, access to BBV testing and immunisation service provision, community needle exchange services and the ongoing delivery of appropriate, tailored alcohol and drug harm reduction interventions. Promote visible recovery across the service and ensure peer support opportunities are relevant and accessible for all service users. Reduce substance related harm to the individual and wider community. About you: Essential criteria includes the following: NVQ Level 3 in Health & Social Care (or above or equivalent) or willing to work towards this in post. Understanding of and ability to implement interventions, including brief interventions MI, PSIs, CBT and ITEP. Experience delivering 1-2-1 and group therapeutic interventions Experience of working with carers and families. Proficient in Microsoft Office programmes. Desirable criteria includes the following: Relevant professional qualification e.g. addiction studies, counselling, social work, therapeutic qualification. Experie