Job Introduction

At Turning Point, we have been supporting people for over 60 years. 

We currently have an opportunity for a part-time (4-days a week) Recovery Worker, based in our Alcohol and Non-Opiate team, working across the county. This role will also take on our Veteran’s and Armed Forces Lead to support our work to improve access to treatment and enhance the quality-of-service delivery for serving personnel and veterans.

As a 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.

Role Responsibility

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 use/mental health/homelessness (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.

You will be responsible for a caseload of clients across the county and as such will be expected to work flexibly across different sites, so own vehicle or access to public transport is essential.

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 and/or experience of current detox and prescribing options would also be advantageous, but we offer full training. We also recognise that many people have transferrable skills from other backgrounds such as mental health, housing or other health and social care provision. Experience of working with veterans and serving personnel, or lived experience, will be advantageous.

The role is varied, so flexibility, an ability to work dynamically on a one-to-one and group basis, 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 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 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.

Someone with local knowledge of the county will be an advantage but not essential. You will be required to travel across the county so being a car owner with a valid UK driving licence, or having access to a vehicle will be essential.

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.

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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