Recovery Champion

Description:

Recovery Champion
Location: STARS Southend
Salary: £19,838 per annum
Job Type: Fixed Term Contract until 31/03/2025
We are The Forward Trust (formerly RAPt and Blue Sky), the social enterprise with charitable status that empowers people to break the often-interlinked cycles of crime and addiction to move forward with their lives. For more than 25 years we have been working with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past. We believe that anyone is capable of lasting change. Our services have supported thousands of people to make positive changes and build productive lives with a job, family, friends and a sense of community.
What you will be doing
An exciting opportunity to join the Recovery support team in Southend working closely with STARS recovery community. We are seeking an enthusiastic and empathetic individual who has a clear understanding of professional boundaries. Ideally you will have experience of recovery and the local recovery community.
This is a specialist role that will work alongside the BRIC coordinator and all Southend team within a multi-agency setting, working to deliver support clients in the recovery support caseload.
The roles main responsibilities will be to:
* Carry a small caseload of recovery support clients
* Provide advice, to clients seeking recovery
* Work closely with the BRIC coordinator to develop effective pathways for recovery support in the communities
* Facilitate welcome PODS into recovery support
* Lived experience workshops
* Work closely with the BRIC coordinator to create service user involvement groups
* Facilitate recovery support groups
* Undertake a relevant training course
You will deliver client centred support using both harm reduction and abstinence-based treatment approaches depending on the requirements of the individual client. You will be required to provide appropriate harm reduction advice and guidance, assess, care plan; deliver structured 1:1 and group-work sessions for recovery support. Through care and integration with other services such as Probation are an essential element of the work.
You will be responsible for contributing to the targets set by Forward and the Recovery support and southend team. One of the key targets will be measuring outcomes, so co-operative working relationships with other partner agencies is vital to this role.
What we are looking for
* Experience of Recovery
* Good IT skills.
* Good oral and written communication skills, including the ability to communicate professionally with a diverse range of clients and customers including those who may be vulnerable and/or displaying challenging behaviour.
* A positive problem solving approach with the ability to focus on key issues quickly and clearly.
What we offer
* Training and development opportunities
* Flexible working
* Simply Health Cashback Scheme (Optional)
* Season Ticket Loan Scheme
* Cycle to work scheme
* Crisis Loan Scheme
* Electric Car Scheme
* £90 per month - External Therapy Allowance
* 3 x Wellbeing Days (pro rata'd for part time employees)
* Access to Blue Light Card
* 25 days (rising to 30 with length of service) Annual Leave plus Bank Holidays
* Contributory Pension Scheme – Employer matched contributions of up to 6% in the first two years’ service and up to 9% thereafter
* Death in Service Payment (2x annual salary)
* Critical Illness Insurance (subject to qualifying criteria)
To Apply
If you feel you are a suitable candidate and would like to work for the Forward Trust, please click apply to be redirected to their website to complete your application