Job Introduction

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The Herefordshire Recovery Service (in the West Midlands) works across the county to support people with alcohol or other drugs use, including people struggling with their mental health, housing, and those who are involved with criminal justice. We have several roles available to support our work to improve access to treatment and enhance the quality of service delivery. We are seeking people to join our team and help us deliver our vision to provide new opportunities to vulnerable people.

As a Criminal Justice Recovery Worker within the Herefordshire Recovery Service, you will make a real difference as you empower and enable people to change. You will join an established, multi-disciplinary team of clinicians, recovery workers and peer mentors and be encouraged to work alongside a range of partners in criminal justice, housing and health and social care.

You will have opportunities to progress your career with a structured learning journey and clearly defined career pathways that will enable you to achieve your long-term goals and work to your strengths.

Whether you are looking to progress into a management and leadership role or to be a specialist in your field as an Advanced Substance Misuse Practitioner at Turning point we will support and encourage you on your career journey.

Role Responsibility

Recovery workers act as ‘key workers’ to a caseload of service users, supporting them to develop plans to achieve their goals, maintaining regular contact with your clients, offering advice, information and psycho-social interventions as well as providing assessments, risk management planning and working closely with our clinical staff and partner agencies.

The Criminal Justice Recovery Worker will work in close partnership with local Probation and Police teams, supporting people who have been arrested and those receiving court orders for community treatment (including Drug Rehabilitation Requirements and Alcohol Treatment Requirements). You will be co-located with local services, delivering brief interventions, and supporting clients to engage in treatment.

As a Criminal Justice Recovery Worker, you will support service users to engage in treatment, offering one-to-one support via key working appointments, and delivering workshops to help people gain new skills and understanding. Holding a case load of individuals, you will ensure a personalised care package is offered, and service users are provided with harm reduction advice, access to treatment and testing, and support them to achieve their recovery goals.

The Ideal Candidate

You’ll have an understanding of substance and alcohol misuse and the challenges and opportunities for individuals on a recovery journey. However, we also recognise that many people have transferrable skills from other backgrounds such as mental health, housing or other health and social care provision. The roles are varied, so flexibility, an ability to work dynamically on a one to one and group basis and knowledge of relapse and other barriers to recovery will be vital but we can help to shape these skills where needed. We also look for candidates with excellent communication skills and who share our values as an organisation. We value individuals with lived experience but also those who are just interested in this line of work; our Trainee Recovery Worker program enables individuals without all relevant experience to gain an entry level position within the organisation before moving on to other roles.

We value individual creativity and initiative and, whatever your role, you will be fully involved in identifying opportunities to improve the quality of our services and the service user experience. Your ideas will be listened to and your suggestions implemented wherever possible. You will be supported in your role by extensive training to help develop your skills. Our learning culture encourages everyone to stay on top of the latest developments in their field and helps drive service improvement.

About us

We know reward looks different to each person and so whether its ways to make your money go further, a culture supporting recognition and celebration, or opportunities to boost your career – we want to support you in every way we can with our total reward package that includes:

25 days’ paid holiday a year + Bank Holidays, increasing with each year of service up to 27 days + Bank Holidays. Plus the option to buy additional holidays and spread the cost.Join our team and discover the comprehensive benefits we offer by following this link to explore all the exciting perks available to our employees Turning Point Benefits.

We reserve the right to close this advert early if we are able to appoint to the vacancy before the advertised closed date.

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