Job Introduction

At Turning Point, we support people across England with substance and alcohol misuse. As a Senior Recovery Worker, you’ll make a real difference to their lives as you develop the personal, flexible and realistic support packages they need to help turn things around.  Passionate about people, you’ll enjoy the scope and support to enhance your own life too, as you make the role your own as part of a friendly and integrated multi-disciplinary team.

Role Responsibility

As a Senior Recovery Worker you will lead by example and provide guidance and line management support to team members. You will also support the Hub Manager to ensure service delivery targets are met.  Significant substance misuse experience essential for this role as well as experience of providing line management or mentorship support.

The Ideal Candidate

Having handled a significant caseload in a busy environment as a Recovery worker or similar, you’ll have a deep understanding of substance misuse, complex needs and the Recovery Agenda.  Within this extremely varied role, excellent leadership skills and a commitment to facilitating  positive outcomes for service users is imperative.  We are looking to recruit x2 Senior Recovery Workers with excellent communication skills and ideally, a vocational qualification, such as an NVQ 3, or equivalent. This role requires a high level of administration, organisation and time management.  These skills are just as important as your people skills and client work.  You will be based in Wakefield though travel within the district will be necessary.

About us

Why Turning Point?

As a leading health and social care provider with more than 300 locations across England, we take real pride in the services we offer.

Across the varied regions, sectors and settings we operate within, our organisation is held together by a shared vision – and our people are connected by the same values. These include belief in potential, confidence in communication, embracing positive change and always treating each other as individuals.

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.

Our people bring our vision to life. So, if you are enthusiastic, motivated and committed to support others to fulfilling their potential, here at Turning Point, we don't just offer you a job – we offer you a career.

What Benefits Will I Receive?

Of course, we know it's not about the money. But that doesn't mean we don't reward our people for their invaluable work with a benefits package that includes:

• Comprehensive opportunities to learn and develop, with silver accreditation from Investors in People
• 28 days’ paid holiday a year, increasing with each year of service up to 30 days. Plus the option to purchase additional holidays
• Flexible benefit options including cycle to work schemes and season ticket loans
• Competitive pension and life assurance schemes
• Employee assistance programme and access to online health and wellbeing support
• Flexible working patterns to support work-life balance
• Access to a wide range of discounts, including cinema tickets, grocery and high-street shopping and gym memberships

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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