Recovery Worker

Overview

Believe in People?

The best people have one thing in common.

They care.

At Change Grow Live
, we're driven by the belief that we can truly impact the lives of our service users. We offer a safe, supportive environment, honouring each individual and working collaboratively to identify the best treatment and care options. Our core values - 'Be open, be compassionate, and be bold' - guide us daily as we help people reshape their lives, grow as individuals, and embrace life to the fullest.

Exciting Opportunity:
Recovery Worker (focusing on opiate dependence)

Are you experienced, skilled, and passionate about making a meaningful difference? We are recruiting for a Recovery Worker to join our Barnet service to engage and assess our service users, ensuring they receive timely, personalised interventions that cater to their unique needs.

Where: Barnet

Full Time Ho
urs: 37.5 per week

Contract Type: Permanent

Full-time hours at Change Grow Live are 37.5 hours per week. For part-time roles, the salary and payments will be pro rata based on contracted hours

• 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 opiate 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
• Supporting the alcohol team with the monthly community detox
• Evening and weekend work required

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.
• Be an excellent communicator, both verbal and written with good IT skills
• Proactive and able to work on own initiative with excellent time management and prioritising skills
• 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 manage change successfully in a way that prioritises the needs of service users
• 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 development of others

What we will give to you:

• 25 days holiday (+ bank holidays) rising by 1 day for each years’ service“Capped at 30 days”
• Paid ‘Wellness’ hour each week along with a ‘Wellness’ hub and Employee Assist Programme
• Contributory pension scheme
• Several benefits incl. discounts for shopping, cinema, holidays, etc.
• A friendly and supportive team
• Training, career development & progression opportunities
• Generous Refer-a-Friend Scheme

Direct applications only — we will not be engaging agencies for this vacancy.

Please note:
This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.…