Criminal Justice Recovery Coordinator - Assessment

At Change Grow Live
, we believe that every person deserves access to high-quality, compassionate and effective support.

We're looking for a Criminal Justice Recovery Coordinator - Assessment within the Warrington service ensuring that every person who accesses our service receives the best possible support

Do you want to work for a caring organisation that believes in people?

Do you want to make a difference?

As a Criminal Justice Recovery Coordinator
- Assessment with Change Grow Live you’ll work with people who use our services, helping them get to where they want to be.

Where: Warrington

Hours:Fulltime, 37.5 hours per week

Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract of 12 months

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.

With this role you’ll be working as part of the criminal justice team based in the Warrington service.

This post will be working in collaboration with Warrington probation service and emanates in part from the significant drive by the Government as part of its new national Combatting Drugs Strategy. This position forms part of our local partnership vision for strengthening our work with the criminal justice system, and particularly Warrington probation, to support service users on the integrated offender management (IOM) scheme and those on community treatment requirements such as DRR's and ATR's.

Reporting to the Criminal Justice Team Leader, you will have responsibility for providing intensive assessment and case management services to a cohort of offenders with complex needs.

We are seeking an individual with a solution-focused approach to assist service users in addressing a variety of challenges including substance misuse, mental health concerns, and offending behaviour.

Also, someone who shares our ambition and drive to support our partner agencies in reducing reoffending, and to address and reduce the number of drug and alcohol related deaths.

You will become an integral member of the criminal justice team, and you will be expected to contribute to the general running of the service through supporting our service users, ensuring the good governance and quality of our operations, and moreover the authentic service user focus of our delivery.

You will be expected to be a good communicator, transparent and candid in your relationship with our service users, colleague’s, and our stakeholders from across the Warrington partnership.

In return you will be joining a resilient and purposeful service and an organisation that has aspiration for its staff and the people it serves at its core.

Person Specification:

• Good IT skills and experience in carrying out assessments of service users in health, social care, and criminal justice sectors.
• Knowledge and experience of recording and managing risk
• The ability to strike up a rapport and engage with drug and alcohol misusers and offenders.
• Experience of contributing to multi-agency meetings.
• Be able to work autonomously, safely, and creatively, using your own initiative away from the office
• Good communication skills and experience of interagency working.
• A clean driving license and access to your own transport

What We Offer:

• 25 days of annual leave, plus bank holidays. Additionally, you'll receive one extra day of annual leave for each year of service during your first five years, therefore you will enjoy 30 days of leave after five years with us.
• Paid ‘Wellness’ hour weekly.
• 'Wellness' hub and Employee Assist Programme.
• Contributory pension scheme.
• Varied benefits incl. shopping, cinema, and holiday discounts.
• Supportive team, training, career progression opportunities.
• Competitive rates of pay, free eye tests, product discounts.
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