Lived Experience Rehabilitation Worker

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please note a driving licence and access to a vehicle is essential for this position & SVQ level 3 in Health & Social Care is required for SSSC registration purposes.

Our team in Argyll and Bute are recruiting for a Lived Experience Rehabilitation Worker to join them in providing high quality recovery care to a diverse client group. If you are looking for a role where you can connect with and support people who are using drugs or alcohol using your own lived experience, and are passionate about changing people's lives for the better, we'd love to hear from you.

Please note that this role may close early should sufficient applications be received, so early application is advised.

Our vibrant service in Argyll & Bute provides support to people concerned about their own or someone else's drug or alcohol use. All our work is carried out in the communities we serve.

This position is for a Lived Experience Pre/Post Rehabilitation Worker and we are seeking someone with lived experience of drug or alcohol use who is looking to support others on their recovery journey.

Our Lived Experience Workers are an active and integral part of our teams, bringing ideas and solutions so we can develop and improve our recovery communities and helping our clients to get back onto the path to recovery. In your role, you will reach people through outreach, harm reduction, structured interventions and activities and will show through your own experience, knowledge and learning that change is possible.

The post offers intensive support pre residential rehabilitation, support throughout the placement & intensive support in aftercare. The ideal person will be passionate, friendly, non judgemental & committed to learning new skills and becoming an established part of our highly skilled team. Using your lived experience, you will support our clients with their journey either into recovery or maintaining their recovery. You'll experience all projects within our services, building your knowledge and experience, as well as completing all the essential learning you'll need in order to move towards becoming a recovery worker. The aim will be to work up to managing your own caseload, working with clients to achieve their own individual goals and ambitions.

Please note a driving licence and access to a vehicle is essential for this position & SVQ level 3 in Health & Social Care is required for SSSC registration purposes.

This is a full time, fixed term position until March 2025.

Essential Skills

Diversity Statement

As an organisation, we continue to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports and celebrates the diverse voices and experiences of our staff. We know that representing the communities we serve is key to us meeting our goals of radically improving people's lives. We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring and we encourage people from underrepresented communities and backgrounds to apply to join our team, including people with lived experience, people with disabilities, people from racialised communities, LGBTQ+ people and armed forces veterans.

About Company

Everyone should feel comfortable getting the support they need for issues with drugs, alcohol or mental health.

At We Are With You we work with people on their own goals, whether that's staying safe and healthy, making small changes or stopping an unwanted habit altogether. We give people support in a way that's right for them either face to face in their local service, community or online.

We provide a free and confidential service without judgement to more than 100,000 people a year. We use our expertise to improve the help available and raise awareness around drugs, alcohol and mental health so that more people can get support.

We Are With You.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• You will be a compassionate and motivated individual, with an exceptional ability to build meaningful relationships
• You will have been on your own journey with drugs or alcohol and will be willing to use that experience to help others and work as part of a team to ensure a high quality service is maintained
• You will be able to develop relationships of trust whilst maintaining professional boundaries
• You will have a driving licence and access to a vehicle
• You will hold SVQ level 3 in Health & Social Care (as required for SSSC registration purposes)
• The post is subject to PVG check. A full job description and person specification is available on request.

Experience

Essential

• You will be a compassionate and motivated individual, with an exceptional ability to build meaningful relationships
• You will have been on your own journey with drugs or alcohol and will be willing to use that experience to help others and work as part of a team to ensure a high quality service is maintained
• You will be able to develop relationships of trust whilst maintaining professional boundaries
• You will have a driving licence and access to a vehicle
• You will hold SVQ level 3 in Health & Social Care (as required for SSSC registration purposes)
• The post is subject to PVG check. A full job description and person specification is available on request.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

We Are With You

Address

Dunoon

Dunoon

PA23 7DP

Employer's website

https://www.wearewithyou.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)