Recovery Coordinator

Overview

Change Grow Live are a charity dedicated to the belief that we can make a difference to our Service Users lives, offering support and respect in a safe environment, treating each user as an individual and working with them to find the right treatment and care options.

Our core values are ‘Be open, be compassionate and be bold’ and our team members apply these daily to achieve our mission of helping people change the direction of their lives, grow as individuals, and live life to its full potential.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Recovery Coordinator who has the skills and experience to assess and engage with our service users, ensuring that they access the right intervention at the right time, in a way that best meets their needs.

As a Recovery Coordinator with Change Grow Live
, you’ll be based primarily within the EdMAC Clinic at Spittal Street
, working alongside NHS colleagues to support people accessing opioid substitution treatment (OST).

You’ll provide a welcoming and non-judgemental first point of contact, delivering harm reduction interventions, initial assessment and practical support to people who may be experiencing complex needs. From Naloxone, DBST and injecting equipment provision to identifying wider health, social care and recovery needs, you’ll use every contact as an opportunity to reduce harm and help people move towards the support that is right for them.

Where: Spittal Street, Edinburgh

Hours: Full time, 37.5 hours per week

Contract Type:Permanent

About the role:

• Supporting service users from point of entry into the service and through their treatment/recovery journey

• Providing screening, assessment, and recovery planning and onward referral

• Reducing drug and alcohol related harm to service users and the wider community

• Promoting carer, service user and community involvement

• Providing advocacy for access to partnership services

• Working with service users to support social (re) integration, enabling them to lead meaningful and purposeful lives: promoting recovery, resilience, peer support and self-determination

• Research, design and prepare subject matter and materials for groups / pods.

• Deliver structured content within group settings to service users at various stages of recovery

• Engage with debriefing and evaluations with co-facilitators after groups/pods have taken place, reviewing progress and identifying concerns with service users

• Tailor specific workshops around the needs of the service users, such as: anger management, sleep disorders, relationships, etc

About you:

• Have a strong understanding of substance misuse issues and experience of working within a similar field

• Experience of working with groups/pods and managing group dynamics, such as conflict or challenging behaviour.

• Awareness of emerging drug trends, including changes in drug supply, potency, poly-substance use and emerging substances.
• Knowledge of opioid use, overdose risk and the principles and purpose of Opioid Substitution Treatment (OST).
• Knowledge and understanding of Naloxone, IEP and DBST, including blood-borne virus prevention and safer injecting approaches.
• Have a good working knowledge of mental health interventions, services, and good practice

• Be a supportive team player with strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work in partnership with a wide range of professionals, agencies, and internal/external stakeholders

• Ability to recognise changes in presentation, risk and vulnerability and respond appropriately.

• Understand the importance of information governance processes and commit to follow and apply all necessary safeguards

• Seek out learning opportunities to improve and broaden your professional knowledge and skills and to contribute and oversee the learning and…