Apprentice Recovery Worker - Coventry

At Change Grow Live Coventry, 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 responsibilities.

The post holder will work as an integral part of the multi-disciplinary team at the service named above to deliver high quality provision by:

 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.

Act as main care coordinator overseeing assigned groups of service users, providing: screening; asset mapping; comprehensive assessments; recovery planning (using motivational interviewing techniques) and reviews of care.
Support the development of service based recovery communities.
Ensure the timely and accurate collection, recording and reporting of specified data.
Assess suitability for groups in terms of risk and special needs.
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.
Ensure that all aspects of confidentiality are adhered to and that consent to share information is a key element to building trusting therapeutic alliances.
Help individuals to develop recovery resources and access peer and mutual support groups to develop their own recovery capital.
To support the smooth running of the service, by contributing to tasks such as reception, duty cover, and clinical duties on an ad hoc basis.
Provide health education especially in regard to harm minimisation, blood borne viruses and overdose prevention.
To assist and carry out appropriate screening processes including DBST, urine and saliva tests, after completion of appropriate training or demonstration of relevant experience.


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 qualifications required.

Future prospects

On going training and development.

Training to be delivered

Adult Care Worker Apprenticeship L2 including Functional Skills in Maths and English

Employer

Change Grow Live - Lamb Street - Coventry

Address

1a Lamb Street

West Midlands

Coventry

CV1 4AE

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