Recovery Worker
$28,557–$32,802 year
On-siteBarnet, England, United Kingdom
Job Summary
Support service users from entry through their treatment and recovery journey by providing screening, assessment, and personalized recovery planning. Reduce alcohol-related harm while promoting carer, service user, and community involvement through advocacy for partnership services. Deliver structured content in group settings tailored to needs such as anger management and sleep disorders, then debrief with co-facilitators to review progress. Research and prepare subject matter for workshops, working with the alcohol team on monthly community detox support. Engage in social reintegration efforts to enable meaningful lives, prioritizing peer support and self-determination within the Barnet service.
Required Qualifications
- Have a strong understanding of substance misuse issues
- Experience of working within a similar field
- Experience of working with groups/pods
- Experience of managing group dynamics
- Experience of managing conflict
- Experience of managing challenging behaviour
- Be an excellent communicator
- Excellent verbal communication skills
- Excellent written communication skills
- Good IT skills
- Proactive
- Able to work on own initiative
- Excellent time management skills
- Prioritising skills
- Have a good working knowledge of mental health interventions
- Good knowledge of mental health services
- Good knowledge of mental health good practice
- Be a supportive team player
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Ability to work in partnership with a wide range of professionals
- Ability to work in partnership with agencies
- Ability to work in partnership with internal stakeholders
- Ability to work in partnership with external stakeholders
- Ability to manage change successfully
- Ability to prioritise the needs of service users
- Understand the importance of information governance processes
- Commit to follow information governance safeguards
- Commit to apply information governance safeguards
- Seek out learning opportunities
- Ability to improve professional knowledge
- Ability to broaden professional skills
- Ability to contribute to learning and development
- Ability to oversee learning and development of others
- Applicants must already have the right to work in the UK at the time of application
- This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at an enhanced level
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