Recovery Worker

Job overview

This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship. If it is identified that you require sponsorship to undertake this role your application may be withdrawn

Are you:

• passionate about providing high quality care and support?
• skilled/experienced in providing evidence based psychological/psychosocial interventions geared towards supporting people to make positive changes and work towards recovery?
• highly motivated with the ability to support and inspire?
• able to apply your skills/interventions to the care of people with mild to moderate substance misuse needs.

Then come and join our team in the Isle of Wight as a Recovery Worker!

Main duties of the job

As a recovery worker, you will:

• Provide a range of low, medium and high intensity interventions to those people experiencing substance misuse problems.
• Work in a community environment delivering a high quality drug and alcohol recovery service in response to need.
• Provide a range of psycho-social interventions motivating and supporting people to achieve recovery and positive outcomes within a recovery-orientated substance misuse treatment service.
• Work in collaboration with clinical prescribing services to ensure the needs of each service user is met.
• Provide a drug and alcohol recovery service (incorporating assessment, recovery planning, casework coordination and psycho-social interventions) to people located within the community environment.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for further details. A summary is below:

• To deliver psycho-social, recovery orientated and outcome-focussed service within ORB with a particular emphasis on high standards and good practice.
• To work within an integrated team delivering psycho-social and clinical interventions to service users presenting with substance misuse issues, including alcohol.
• To use strengths-based approaches including mapping techniques and relevant paperwork in order to carry out initial screening assessments.
• To carry out further assessments that includes strengths-based node-link mapping techniques and recovery planning.
• Work collaboratively with clinical services to ensure service users are referred for clinical services and supported whilst waiting for or receiving clinical treatment. Including joint recovery planning, attending joint clinical reviews, joint 1:1 sessions and communicating progress and needs to appropriate staff where need dictates.
• To identify and formulate goals jointly agreed with the service user on their recovery plan appropriate to their needs.
• To be responsible for the coordination of recovery for each client on your caseload.
• To provide structured interventions in accordance with the needs identified on an individual basis, in line with the goals identified and agreed on the recovery plan.

Applicant requirements

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.