Job Introduction

Turning Point, working in partnership with Mind in the City, Hackney and Waltham Forest and Antidote, provide the City and Hackney Recovery Service which works with local residents concerned about their drug and alcohol use.  The service works across each of City and Hackney’s neighbourhoods in order to be accessible, local and inclusive.  The fully integrated service contributes to recovery, social inclusion and improving the quality of life of all our service users in the City of London and Hackney borough. It aims to be shaped by the community needs and voices of service users, carers, families, communities, all staff and volunteers.

 As an Advanced Recovery Practitioner within the Criminal Justice, Womens and Families and Carers team, you’ll have the chance to make a real difference to the lives of the people we support who are experiencing difficulties from alcohol and or substance use, supporting a team to work with them to develop the personal, flexible and realistic support packages they need to help turn things around.  You will have experience in and a passion for working with alcohol and or substance users and understand the importance of meeting regulatory requirements within the service. Partnership working will play an important role in your day to day work and you will have experience in building and maintaining excellent relationships with local and national organisations to support the work of the service. Internally you will work closely with managers and staff from teams across the service. Exceptional organisational skills are essential for this pivotal role in a very busy service 

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

• Carry a designated caseload of service users with complex needs that may include the following: mental health, long term conditions, criminal justice, offending behaviour, homelessness, motivational interviewing, safeguarding, family work.
• Conduct assessments of need and risk assessments and formulate risk management plans and recovery plans that recognise the personal recovery goals of the service user.
• Effective partnership working with members of any multi-disciplinary team and other agencies and coordinate multi-agency meetings when appropriate.
• Deliver interventions that are underpinned by a strong evidence base.
• Participate in clinical and complex case meetings and be confident and competent at presenting cases orally and through written reports.
• Support the learning and development of Recovery Workers and Trainee Recovery Workers, Peer Mentors, Volunteers and Students, providing specialist input into Multi-Disciplinary Meetings.
• Provide mentoring and coaching to staff to support their development, learning and standards of care.
• Being known as a knowledgeable in a designated specialism within the service (e.g. substance use and mental health, Homelessness/complex needs, domestic abuse, mental capacity).
• Ensuring achievement of key performance indicators relevant to your role.
• Delivering internal learning events and representing Turning Point nationally if required in your specialist area. 

The Ideal Candidate

• Actively participate in multi-disciplinary team meetings and other service meetings, offering support and guidance to colleagues, to chair such meetings in absence of Team Leader
• Deputising for Team Leader during planned and unplanned absences
• Acting as a subject matter expert for colleagues and offering support and advice through training, development sessions, coaching/mentoring
• Undertaking case file audits collaboratively with Team Leaders for Recovery Workers and providing mentoring/support, to provide feedback to Recovery Workers to Support Practice improvement
• Undertaking observations of group and 1:2:1 session of colleagues and providing feedback to support practice improvement.
• Allowing Recovery Workers to shadow and observe your own practice to support their learning and development

Desirable:

• Relevant qualification (e.g. Health and Social Care, Nursing; Social Work, psychology degree).

About us

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. 

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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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