Recovery Sustainment Worker Homeless Integrated Recovery Service; WHIRS

Title:

Recovery Sustainment Worker – Wolverhampton Homeless Integrated Recovery Service (WHIRS)

Reports To:

Service Manager / Team Leader

Salary: £28,500 - £30,850

Hours:

35 hours per week

This is a three-year fixed term contract.

The Good Shepherd supports disadvantaged people in Wolverhampton to end homelessness, recover, build independence and move out of poverty.

We provide food, practical help, one-to-one and group support, accommodation support, training and pathways into employment.

Our core values are hospitality, compassion, and respect. We recognise each person’s dignity and potential for growth, and we deliver services in a person-centred way.

The Recovery Sustainment Worker will provide person-centred recovery and tenancy support within WHIRS, a partnership between Good Shepherd and Recovery Near You for people rough sleeping, recently housed or at risk of returning to rough sleeping.

The role helps people build recovery capital, sustain accommodation, reduce relapse and homelessness, access treatment and health support, and move safely into wider recovery and mainstream pathways.

• Adopt an active engagement approach, taking responsibility for building trust and meaningful contact with people who may find it difficult to engage with services.

Meet people where they are, including Good Shepherd, street outreach, hostel and supported accommodation settings, community locations, primary care sites and partner venues.

Work alongside Good Shepherd, P3, Changing Lives, Recovery Near You, CWC homelessness services and other outreach partners to identify people who need sustained recovery and tenancy support.

• Respond flexibly to local intelligence and multi-agency requests to target support where it is most needed.

• Support individuals to build recovery capital by connecting them with LERO activities,

• Provide practical and emotional support that helps people maintain motivation, manage setbacks and continue moving forward on their recovery journey.

Work with peer mentors and people with lived experience to provide visible recovery, encouragement and practical support.

Provide targeted support to people with recent or historical rough sleeping who are at risk of losing accommodation or returning to street activity.

Support people to sustain accommodation by addressing risks linked to relapse, isolation, poor health, anti-social behaviour, begging, rent issues, appointments and daily living skills.

Coordinate practical support with housing providers, homelessness services and partner agencies to reduce repeat homelessness and promote stability.

• Promote routines, safety planning, positive relationships and meaningful activity that reduce the likelihood of tenancy breakdown.

Work with clinical and recovery colleagues to support rapid access to treatment, including OST, alcohol support, psychosocial interventions and harm reduction activity.

Support people to attend appointments, engage with health checks, BBV testing, vaccinations, needle exchange, naloxone / overdose prevention and safer using advice where appropriate

Help individuals understand and follow treatment, recovery and health plans, supporting reengagement where appointments are missed or motivation drops

Provide ongoing support to individuals moving from intensive WHIRS support into the Recovery Near You pathway, mainstream services or other community-based recovery support

• Plan transitions carefully with the person and relevant partners so that support does not feel fragmented or withdrawn…