Recovery Worker

Substance Misuse Recovery Worker

Location: Warrington

Contract: Temporary full time, 6 week contract

Pay: £20.00 - £21.00 per hour Umbrella

Morgan Hunt are working with a health and social care charity, who are recruiting for a full time Recovery Worker at their Warrington service for a 6 week temporary contract.

Responsibilities

• Supporting service users from point of entry into the service and through their treatment/recovery journey
• Providing screening, assessment, psychosocial interventions, recovery planning and onward referral
• Reducing drug and 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

Candidate requirements

• Experience of working within the substance misuse field, and the ability to manage a caseload and hit the ground running
• A commitment to multi agency working and establishing partnerships with other professions to achieve good outcomes for the service user group, e.g. mental health services, criminal justice agencies, community groups, etc.
• Experience of working in an outcomes focused environment
• An Enhanced DBS on the update service

For more information about the role of Recovery Worker, please contact Annabelle on .

Morgan Hunt is an equal opportunities employer, job suitability are assessed on merit in accordance with their skills, qualifications and abilities to perform the relevant duties required in a particular role.