Substance Misuse Recovery Worker
Posted 4 days ago by Red Sector Recruitment Limited on CVLibrary
£22 Per hour
Undetermined
Onsite
Chesterfield, Derbyshire
Summary: The Substance Misuse Recovery Worker role in Chesterfield involves supporting service users throughout their treatment and recovery journey. The position requires providing assessments, recovery planning, and advocacy while promoting community involvement and reducing alcohol-related harm. This is a full-time contract role with a focus on enabling service users to lead meaningful lives. An Enhanced DBS check is necessary for this position.
Key Responsibilities:
- 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 alcohol 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.
Key Skills:
- Experience in substance misuse recovery or related field.
- Strong assessment and recovery planning skills.
- Ability to advocate for service users and promote community involvement.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Understanding of alcohol-related harm and recovery processes.
- Ability to support social integration and resilience in service users.
Salary (Rate): £22
City: Chesterfield
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: on-site
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: Mid-Level
Industry: Other