Recovery Coordinator- GP Surgeries and Community

Job description

Job responsibilities

This new initiative to Cambridgeshire is aimed at supporting people who may not access our mainstream services. This project is also to provide support to healthcare professionals in GP settings to engage those who need this support.

As the Recovery Co-ordinator (GP Surgeries and Community) Worker you will work as part of the Change Grow Live Drug and Alcohol Treatment Service.

This post will work in partnership with the Primary Care Networks in Cambridgeshire in order to engage and support those affected by alcohol use.

This team sits within the wider community engagement team at CGL Cambridgeshire but also very much embedded alongside GPs and healthcare professionals.

You will provide support to people that have been identified as requiring help with addressing their alcohol use primarily but will also support with other substance use as required.

You will deliver a range or interventions and provide a package of holistic support to help build resilience and improve peoples ability to achieve their goals and build recovery.

The role requires flexibility and may include some unsociable hours.

This role is County wide.

CGLs commitment to you

CGL works within the following framework and requires all employees to do the same.

Equal Opportunities

CGL are committed to creating an inclusive environment, which celebrates difference and allows our staff and service users to flourish. CGL are committed to promoting and ensuring anti discriminatory practices through our organisational values, policies, and procedures, which we expect all staff to promote and adhere to. CGL expect all staff to challenge prejudice and discrimination, to support staff with this we offer robust supervision alongside training and development opportunities to continually improve equality, diversity, and inclusion practices.

Vision

CGL enables people to make the positive changes necessary to lead independent and purposeful lives and create safer, healthier communities.

Career Development and Progression

CGL is committed to providing its staff with opportunities for personal and professional development. We provide an internal training and development program and aim to keep all our people up to date with new legislation and trends in social care work, with specialist training provided as required. Where appropriate, staff undertake external training courses in line with their development needs.

Safeguarding

CGL are committed to ensuring the safeguarding and wellbeing of children and adults at risk, and all applicants will be required to demonstrate understanding of and commitment to best safeguarding practice.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Knowledge of a range of interventions including preventative measures, harm reduction strategies, motivational interviewing and other psycho-social interventions.
• Good working knowledge of mental health, substance misuse and complex needs.

Experience

Essential

• The post holder will have the prior knowledge and experience of working with people who use alcohol or other substances.
• Experience of building strong professional relationships within Healthcare settings.
• The ability to work remotely and autonomously.
• Ability to work autonomously and collaboratively with Primary Care professionals and build links between services.
• Knowledge of existing service provision in Cambridgeshire local services including mutual aid networks.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Employer details

Employer name

Change Grow Live

Address

C G L

Church Terrace

Wisbech

Cambridgeshire

PE131BW

Employer's website

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