Recovery Worker

Job Introduction

Please note, a full UK driving license and access to a vehicle is an essential requirement.

You can help build a brighter future for communities and individuals in Bury St Edmunds doing a highly rewarding job. Turning Point's drug & alcohol services are expanding during an exciting time with new funding and investment. We have various roles for those passionate about supporting others to make change.

This role requires occasional Saturday and evening working.

We offer a starting salary of £25,116 with annual pay progression up to £29,383. You may be offered a higher starting salary based on experience.

You will have opportunities to progress your career with a structured learning journey and clearly defined career pathways that enable you to achieve your long-term goals and work to your strengths.

We support and encourage you on your career journey whether you want to progress into a management and leadership role or become a specialist as an Advanced Substance Use Practitioner at Turning Point.

Role Responsibility

Substance use recovery workers act as 'key workers' to a caseload of service users, supporting them to decide their goals around treatment and develop plans to achieve these. The role includes maintaining regular contact with clients, offering advice, information, and psycho-social interventions, providing assessments, risk management planning, and working closely with clinical staff around prescribing needs and partner agencies.

No day is the same in this role but ability to communicate effectively with various service users and colleagues, ability to manage different tasks, and commitment to Turning Point values are essential. You may have lived experience of substance use/mental health/homelessness (self or significant other), come with experience supporting people in health and social care, or just have a keen interest in supporting this group; if your values are right, we have a role for everyone.

The Ideal Candidate

You'll have an understanding of substance and alcohol use and the challenges and opportunities for individuals on a recovery journey. However, we also recognize that many people have transferable skills from other backgrounds such as mental health, housing, or other health and social care provision.

The roles are varied, so flexibility, ability to work dynamically on a one-to-one and group basis, and knowledge of relapse and other barriers to recovery will be vital. We can help shape these skills where needed.

We look for candidates with excellent communication skills and who share our values as an organization. We value individuals with lived experience but also those who are just interested in this line of work; our Trainee Recovery Worker program enables individuals without all relevant experience to gain an entry-level position within the organization before moving on to other roles.

We value individual creativity and initiative, and whatever your role, you will be fully involved in identifying opportunities to improve the quality of our services and the service user experience. Your ideas will be listened to and your suggestions implemented wherever possible.

You will be supported in your role by extensive training to help develop your skills. Our learning culture encourages everyone to stay on top of the latest developments in their field and helps drive service improvement.

About us

We are a leading health and social care provider with more than 300 locations across England.

We run all of our services on a not-for-profit basis, investing every penny back into our services and people.

We never stop believing in change for the better and constantly work to improve the lives of the people we support.

Benefits

• We offer 25 days' paid holiday a year plus Bank Holidays, increasing with each year of service up to 27 days plus Bank Holidays. Plus the option to buy additional holidays and spread the cost.
• We reserve the right to close this advert early if we are able to appoint to the vacancy before the advertised closing date.