Recovery Coordinator

Description:

• Engage people who have substance misuse problems and provide them with advice, support and recovery focused structured clinical interventions to support their recovery and primary health care needs
• Build therapeutic relationships and deliver a tailor-made package of care including Recognised psycho-social interventions; 1to1 key work, POD and group work; Clinical interventions; Harm minimisation and brief interventions.
• Carry out comprehensive service user assessments and develop individual recovery plans that clearly identify how achieving each goal will enable progression in addressing substance use, re/integrating into the community.
• Support the development of service based recovery communities.
• Carry out risk assessments and risk management.
• Work with prescribing clinicians to support substitute prescribing regimes to improve social functioning.
• To be creative and innovative so that the post best meets the needs of the service user, promoting access in to treatment, and continued engagement with underrepresented communities.
• Help individuals to develop recovery resources and access peer and mutual support groups to develop their own recovery capital.
• Work and liaise with other agencies involved with the service user’s broader care plan including health services, hospitals and GPs.
• To assist and carry out appropriate screening processes including DBST, urine and saliva tests, after completion of appropriate training or demonstration of relevant experience.
• To carry out key harm reduction strategies such as running of the Needle Exchange and distribution of Naloxone, after completion of appropriate training or demonstration of relevant experience.
  
   

About you
 

• Excellent understanding of drug and alcohol issues and experience of working within a related field.
• A commitment to multi-agency working and establishing partnerships with other professions to achieve good outcomes for the service user group, e.g. mental health services, criminal justice agencies, community groups, etc.
• Accomplished written and verbal communication skills and a high degree of personal IT competency. The ability to accurately update and maintain records in a timely fashion and to work to deadlines for the submission of information, e.g. reports
• Excellent team working skills, maintaining a highly cooperative approach to supporting colleagues in delivering service objectives.
• Effective interpersonal skills with the ability to engage successfully with internal and external stakeholders at all levels.
• Ability to liaise and work in partnership with a wide range of professionals and agencies.
• An understanding of and commitment to safeguarding best practice.