Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a job based in Walsall for a Recovery Coordinator.
The pay rate for this locum Recovery Coordinator job is £16 per hour (Assignment rate) and is an initial 3-month contract.
This role may include some evening and weekend working.
Duties:
- Work as an integral part of the multi-disciplinary team at the service named above to deliver high quality provision
- 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
- 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
- Supervise Volunteers and Peer Mentors
- Act as main care coordinator overseeing assigned groups of service users, providing: screening; asset mapping; comprehensive assessments; recovery planning (using motivational interviewing techniques) and reviews of care
- Coordinate a tailor-made package of care
- 1 - 1 key work, POD and group work
- Clinical interventions
- Harm minimisation and brief interventions
- Be the broker for these interventions, but will not regularly deliver them
- Carry out comprehensive service user assessments, including asset mapping of community resources and develop individual recovery plans that clearly identify how achieving each goal will enable progression in addressing substance use and re/integrating into the community
- Support the development of service based recovery communities
- Further develop CGL’s links with local recovery groups / mutual aid groups
- Ensure the timely and accurate collection, recording and reporting of specified data
- Assess suitability for groups in terms of risk and special needs
- Carry out risk assessments and risk management
- Triage assessment and onward referral to a range of treatment/community support agencies
- Work with prescribing clinicians to support substitute prescribing regimes to improve social functioning
- Ensure that all aspects of confidentiality are adhered to and that consent to share information is a key element to building trusting therapeutic alliances
- Help individuals to develop recovery resources and access peer and mutual support groups to develop their own recovery capital
- Work and liaise with other agencies involved with the service user’s broader care plan including health services, hospitals and GPs
- Support the smooth running of the service, by contributing to tasks such as reception, duty cover, and clinical duties on an ad hoc basis
- Provide health education especially in regard to harm minimisation, blood borne viruses and overdose prevention
- Assist and carry out appropriate screening processes including DBST, urine and saliva tests, after completion of appropriate training or demonstration of relevant experience
Requirements of the Recovery Coordinator:
- A flexible attitude to multi-agency working
- Be creative and innovative so that the post best meets the needs of the service user, promoting access in to treatment, and continued engagement with underrepresented communities
- Demonstrating an understanding of and commitment to best safeguarding practice, making awareness of documentation and referral pathways at your service a priority and taking immediate and appropriate action as necessary
- Being committed to helping to build an organisation that respects and values the diversity of all staff, making our services accessible and inclusive, regardless of an individual’s protected characteristic (age, disability, gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation) recovery status or offending background
- Willing to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Service check at an enhanced level
- Care Certificate or willingness to complete
- Willing to complete the CGL 3 Mandatory Induction Modules
- A shared commitment as individuals and as an organisation
- Driven by innovation & determination – to bring about the safest, healthiest outcomes for individuals & communities
- Open mindedness
- Excellent understanding of drug and alcohol issues and experience of working within a related field
- A commitment to multi-agency working and establishing partnerships with other professions to achieve good outcomes for the service user group, e.g. mental health services, criminal justice agencies, community groups, etc
- Accomplished written and verbal communication skills and a high degree of personal IT competency
- The ability to accurately update and maintain records in a timely fashion and to work to deadlines for the submission of information, e.g. reportsExcellent time management skills, and an ability to work on own initiative, prioritising accordingly
Excellent team working and interpersonal skills, maintaining a highly cooperative approach to supporting colleagues in delivering service objectives
Good working knowledge of mental health interventions, services and good practice
Experience of working in an outcomes-focussed environment
Ability to manage change successfully in a way that prioritises the needs of service users
Ability to liaise and work in partnership with a wide range of professionals and agencies
Ability to communicate complex information to individuals and groups in a way that is easily understood
Effective interpersonal skills with the ability to engage successfully with internal and external stakeholders at all levels
The ability to work collaboratively with others (internally and externally)
A commitment to engaging with, understanding and promoting CGL’s values and vision
An understanding of and commitment to safeguarding best practice
An understanding of the importance of professional integrity in relationships with service users, peers and other relevant professionals
An understanding of and commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion best practice with a particular focus on engagement with hard to reach and marginalised service users
Benefits of working for Sanctuary Personnel:
- Free DBS and compliance service
- Daily payroll
- Access to exclusive roles that aren't available with other agencies
- Your own dedicated consultant with extensive substance misuse knowledge
- Refer a Friend bonus - get £250 for each candidate you refer who we successfully place
- Find your own job bonus - Receive £250 for bringing your own position to us
- Clinical governance support
- In house payroll system
- Revalidation
- Industry leading shift booking system
- Nationwide coverage including the Channel islands
Contact:
This Recovery Coordinator job is advertised by Rihana Chowdhury; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.
Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients' requirements.
As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award.
Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).
With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Sanctuary is best-placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.
Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.
