Recovery Worker

Change Grow Live ,
Ealing, Greater London

Overview

Job Description

Do you want to work for a caring organisation that believes in people? Do you want to make a difference? An exciting opportunity has arisen within Ealing RISE (Change, Grow, Live) for an enthusiastic, dedicated and outcome focused BAME Recovery Worker to join our community team. As a BAME Recovery Worker, your role will be to increase awareness of the support available from RISE to people from the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic community in the London Borough of Ealing that are facing issues with drug and/or alcohol. The main focus is to work with service users and the wider community to support engagement with the appropriate drug and/or alcohol treatment based on need. RISE is an integrated end-to-end treatment and recovery service which offers a wide range of pharmacological and psychosocial interventions to Ealing residents 18 years and over to their families and significant others who are experiencing issues with drugs and/or alcohol use. RISE is a consortium, with CGL being the lead contractor, and includes Central and North West London NHS Mental Health Trust (CNWL) and service user led organization Build on Belief (BOB). The successful candidate will be committed to taking a positive, holistic and empowering approach to service delivery. They will work with service users to initiate recovery from drug and/or alcohol dependence, to enable service users to build their own recovery capital and to support them to move into long term sustained recovery and social (re)integration. You will need to demonstrate a strong recovery focus and have knowledge of a range of psychosocial interventions. The role will involve working in the community and undertaking strength based assessments, collaborative formulation of recovery plans, supporting medically assisted recovery, ITEP mapping, motivational interventions and have a strong eye for detail in both the inputting and collation of data. The successful candidate will deliver 121 sessions, groups, offer harm minimization advice and will be committed to promoting recovery community and service user choice, whilst supporting service users to live healthier lives. Our values are to be compassionate, open and bold. If this sounds like you we'd love to hear from you so click apply. CGL points 23 to 28 (22819.26 - 26519.35) Outer London Weighting (1,961.90) 5/3/2020 12/6/2020 This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at an enhanced level. Job ID: 2020-1636 *Portal Location: Ealing-Greater London Contracted Hours Per Week: 37.50 Job Description (URL to file) (Linked): Role Specifics (URL to file) (Linked): External Company Name: Change Grow Live External Company URL: Street: 99-103 The Broadway