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.
Desired Skills
• IT literacy • Excellent written and verbal communication skills • Excellent time management skills, and an ability to work on own initiative prioritising accordingly.
Personal qualities
● Ability to respect and maintain confidentiality
● Understanding of the issues faced by our client group
Qualifications required
No desired qualifications.
Future prospects
On going training and development.
Training to be delivered
Adult Care Worker Apprenticeship Level 2
Functional Skills in Maths and English
Employer
Change Grow Live - The Quarter - Walsall
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Unit 4, The Quarter
West Midlands
West Midlands
WS1 1QU
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