At Change Grow Live Walsall, as a Recovery Worker Apprentice, you will be working towards the Adult Care Level 2 apprenticeship, over the duration of 18 months, alongside your daily roles and responsiblities.

The focus of this role is to provide intensive key work to families who have drug and/or alcohol misuse issues which could potentially put their children, families or themselves at risk. Workers will work to help families overcome complex problems which will enable them to become reintegrated into society. This role will cover operational sites as required, including community locations and family homes. This includes working with adults and young people with a history of substance misuse.

Your roles and responsiblities will include;

 Supporting service users from point of entry into the service and through their treatment/recovery journey

 Providing screening, assessment, and 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

 Provide high quality support and interventions to families with a multi-disciplinary Safeguarding team

 Work closely with local Social Services Teams and Family Intervention Projects

 Promote family members involvement to improve outcomes for children

 Present cases at The Beacon Clinical meetings for Multi-disciplinary discussion where a change in circumstances/behaviour potentially changes the service users risk profile

 Review ongoing care and treatment liaising closely with the full range of specialist works within the multi-disciplinary team both within The Beacon and the Family Safeguarding Team

 Work in partnership with other agencies and carry out joint key working to enable effective engagement and movement from semi structured psychosocial interventions to promote recovery

Change Grow Live offer some fantastic benefits which include;

 Health Checks

 Help paying for childcare

 Cycle to work scheme

 Food intolerance and allergy testing

 Gym flex

 Life insurance

 Will Writing Service

 Employee assistance programme

Please note that before employment can commence an enhanced DBS check will need to be carried out.

Contact information

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