Think Family Recovery Coordinator

Overview

Are you passionate about making a real difference in the lives of Families?

Do you have experience in substance misuse and supporting individuals through challenging transitions?

If so, we’d love to hear from you.

We’re looking for a dedicated Adults Think Family Recovery Coordinator to join our Halton Integrated Drug and Alcohol Recovery Service. The post-holder will carry a caseload and act as the care coordinator for service users who have children or young people living in the household with them.

Interventions and support will be delivered via a whole family approach working with external support agencies and the YP service for hidden harm interventions. The team will take a systemic approach to improving the wellbeing of the family.

You will be working with individuals to develop positive lifestyle changes and health choices. You will be promoting harm reduction and personalised health promotion interventions to encourage people to access mainstream services within the community.

Where: Widnes, Cheshire

Full Time

Hours:

37.5 per week

Contract Type: 12 Months Fixed Term Contract

* 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.

About the role:

The post-holder will carry a caseload and act as the care coordinator for service users who have children or young people living in the household with them. Interventions and support will be delivered via a whole family approach working with external support agencies and the YP service for hidden harm interventions. The team will take a systemic approach to improving the wellbeing of the family.

• 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
• Manage a caseload of individuals with complex safeguarding needs, who are pregnant and/or have children social care involvement.
• Ensure that appropriate safeguarding practice is always followed, working in partnership with statutory agencies where appropriate.
• Provide assessment, psychosocial interventions, integrated care planning and after care support, including transfer of care.
• Provide service user advocacy to support engagement from and access to partnership services.
• To support the development of strong relations with partner agencies, ensuring robust referral protocols and care pathways for the effective identification, referral and support for those requiring ‘hidden harm’ interventions from the service.
• To represent the service at partnership meetings such as MARAC meetings, child in need and child protection meetings.

About you:

• Have a strong understanding of substance misuse issues and experience of working within a similar field
• Experience of working with service users who have multiple risk factors e.g. domestic violence, anti-social behaviour, unemployed, poor / unsuitable housing, pregnancy related harm and hard reduction experience.
• Experience of working in close partnership with key stakeholders including Children and Adult social services and safeguarding boards.
• 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
• Experience of undertaking comprehensive assessments, care- planning, case management and reviews
• Sound working knowledge of Child Protection procedures.

What we will give to you:

• 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 each week…