### Job Introduction
At Turning Point, we have been supporting people for 60 years.
As a Opiate Recovery Worker within the Herefordshire Recovery Service, you’ll
make a real difference as you empower and enable people to change. Passionate
about people, you’ll receive support to enhance your own life too, as you make
the role your own in a friendly and multidisciplinary team.
As an Opiate Recovery Worker we offer a starting salary of £25,116 rising each
year in line with our pay progression salary bands, rising to £29,383 per
year. (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.
Whether you are looking to progress into a management and leadership role or
to be a specialist in your field as an Advanced Substance Use Practitioner at
Turning point we will support and encourage you on your career journey.
### Role Responsibility
We have an opportunity for a Recovery Worker in our Opiate Team, providing
assessments, treatment, psychosocial interventions, and care to drug and
alcohol users. You will join a multi-disciplinary team of clinicians, recovery
workers and peer mentors and be required to work alongside a range of partners
in criminal justice, housing and health and social care.
You will be responsible for a caseload of clients across the county and as
such will be expected to work flexible across different sites.
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. No day is
the same in this role but an ability to communicate effectively with a range
or service users and colleagues, an ability to manage different tasks and a
commitment to Turning Point values are essential. You may have lived
experience of substance misusemental healthhomelessness (self or a
significant other), come with experience supporting people in health and
social care or just have a keen interest in supporting this group; if your
values are right, we have a role for everyone.
### The Ideal Candidate
You’ll understand alcohol and other substance use issues, as well as
appropriate treatment pathways, and the challenges and opportunities for
individuals on a recovery journey. Substantial knowledge andor experience of
working with young people would be essential.
The role is varied, so flexibility, an ability to work dynamically on a one-
to-one and knowledge of relapse prevention and other skills to promote
recovery will be vital. We also look for candidates with excellent
communication and organisational skills who share our values as an
organisation. We are also keen to hear from people with lived experience.
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 experience of the people we support. 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
As a leading health and social care provider with more than 300 locations
across England, we take real 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 we work constantly to improve the lives of the people we
support.
**_What Benefits Will I Receive?_**
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_**](https:eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A%2F%2Fjobs.turning-point.co.uk%2Fbenefits.html%3Futm_source%3Djobad%26utm_medium%3Dreferral%26utm_content%3Dbenefits&data=05%7C02%7CLisa.Worthington%40turning-point.co.uk%7C1ad6af57bfbf40762e3108dcf43d957e%7C0e3b206e48d14e3ab5995e7daeec0bb0%7C0%7C0%7C638653792541865738%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=PM48AVE3AUzbCGfSJmWC6cHUQ2cAsMHrGiq4uGQJy2o%3D&reserved=0).
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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### Attached documents
*  [SM - Recovery Worker.pdf](https:join.turning-point.co.ukmembersmodulesjobV2fdownload.php?j=7b940006191cf4da&f=897351e8eb431e32&mode=job_s2)
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