Access & Engagement Recovery Worker - City & Hackney
Job Introduction
Do you want to help build a brighter future for communities and individuals in Hackney by doing a highly rewarding job? Turning Point’s drug & alcohol services are currently expanding during an exciting time in the sector with new funding and investment. We have a range of roles for people passionate about supporting others to make change.
This role will specifically work with the "front end" of substance use service delivery, primarily by undertaking comprehensive assessments as part of the assessment team for new clients wanting to begin treatment with us. This will include risk assessing, care planning, and presenting new cases in a daily allocations meeting. The worker will play a key role in identifying the correct pathways that we offer in City & Hackney. We are looking for a dedicated, IT-savvy, friendly, and hardworking individual who can build quick, trusting relationships with vulnerable adults in a fast-paced sector.
As an Access & Engagement Recovery Worker, we offer a starting salary of £27,377, rising each year in line with our pay progression salary bands, up to £32,026 per year + £3,633 ILW. (Dependent on experience, you may be offered a starting salary above the initial starting salary).
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.
Role Responsibility
Ensuring strength-based recovery plans are developed in the service that are comprehensive, person-centred, individualised, and based on clear assessments of clients’ needs and circumstances. Recovery workers act as ‘key workers’ to a caseload of service users, supporting them to decide their goals around treatment and develop plans to achieve these. The role includes 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 around prescribing needs and partner agencies. An ability to communicate effectively with a range of service users and colleagues, manage different tasks, and a commitment to Turning Point values are essential.
The Ideal Candidate
You’ll have an understanding of substance and alcohol use and the challenges and opportunities for individuals on a recovery journey. 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. Excellent communication skills and shared values with our organization are critical. Our Trainee Recovery Worker program enables individuals without all relevant experience to gain an entry-level position within the organization before moving on to other roles.
About Us
As a leading health and social care provider with more than 300 locations across England, we take pride in the services we offer. We run all of our services on a not-for-profit basis; instead, we invest every penny back into our services and people. We never stop believing in change for the better and work constantly to improve the lives of the people we support.
What Benefits Will I Receive?
* 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.
We reserve the right to close this advert early if we are able to appoint to the vacancy before the advertised closing date.
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