Family Safeguarding Recovery Worker

Location: Street

Job Introduction

Please Note:

A Full UK Driving License and Access to a Vehicle is an Essential Requirement.

Part Time: 22 hrs (some flexibility in days & layout of these hours)
At Turning Point, we support people across the UK with substance use issues. As a Family Safeguarding 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 multidisciplinary team.

As directed by the SDAS Young Persons & Family Service Manager/ Family Safeguarding Team Leader, the Safeguarding Recovery Worker will be an integral member of a multi-disciplinary team within the Somerset Family Safeguarding Team delivering comprehensive interventions, underpinned by Motivational Interviewing Techniques, that will include delivering a full range of outreach, open access and case management services, Support medically assisted recovery where appropriate, and recovery interventions to families affected by substance use where children are subject to Children Protection or Child in Need Plans.

As a Family Safeguarding Recovery Worker, we offer a starting salary of £25,870 rising each year in line with our pay progression salary bands, rising to £30,265 per year (Pro-Rata). (Dependent on experience you may be offered a starting salary above the initial starting salary).This role will be based in our Mendip Hub.

You will have opportunities to progress your career with a structured learning journey and clearly defined career pathways that will enable you to achieve your long-term goals and work to your strengths.

Whether you are looking to progress into a management and leadership role or to be a specialist in your field as an Advanced Substance Use Practitioner at Turning point we will support and encourage you on your career journey.

Role Responsibility To provide high quality support and interventions to the highest risk families as part of the Family Safeguarding Team. This includes working with adults and young people with a history of substance use to achieve their goals and improve outcomes for the whole family.

The Safeguarding Family Recovery Worker is responsible for providing the full range of services across an operational site in Somerset as well as the outreach provision in the locality area.

The Safeguarding Family Recovery Worker will carry a case load and provide screening, comprehensive assessments, needle exchange, risk assessment and risk management, recovery planning & review, support access to medically assisted recovery (through titration and prescribing regimes), provide outreach services including home visits, deliver 1-1 key working sessions as well as semi and structured groups to support families through engagement, detoxification, stabilisation and rehabilitation.

The post will be required to contribute to the overall aims and objectives of the Family Safeguarding Team by compiling data and progress reports as directed and in line with the Family Safeguarding Workbook.

The focus of all interventions will be:

To reduce substance related harm to the individual and their children

To reduce the negative impact on children and families of parental substance use and associated lifestyle factors

To promote healthier lifestyles and increase family choice

To promote and support parents/carers into both abstinence based and medically assisted forms of recovery

To provide effective case management and coordination of the individual’s treatment plan in support of the children’s CP or CIN Plan.

To promote family members involvement to improve outcomes for children

The post holder will be responsible for contributing to the overall performance of the service to ensure that contractual output targets are achieved and will be required to record and input client data and information in order that the service operates within contractual, administrative, and financial requirements.

The post holder will be required to work flexibly across operational sites as required and within an…