Criminal Justice Recovery Coordinator in York

Do you want to work for a caring organisation that believes in people? Do you want to make a difference? As a Criminal Justice Recovery Worker with Change Grow Live, you'll work with people who use our services helping them get to where they want to be. The team supports people with involvement in the criminal justice system with their drug and/or alcohol issues. This role includes one-to-one key work, delivering our group work programmes, case management, and interacting with partner agencies, particularly prisons, police, probation, and courts, to ensure people accessing our services can improve and change their lives. Our values are to be compassionate, open, and bold.

Where: York

Hours: Full time 37.5h per week

Salary Range: 27861.26 - 32002.35

Responsibilities:

• 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
• Motivational Interviewing
• Children's and adult safeguarding
• Liaison and partnership working including police, probation, courts, and prisons
• Substance awareness
• 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

About you:

• Have a strong understanding of substance misuse issues and/or experience of working within a similar field
• Be an excellent communicator, both verbal and written, with good IT skills
• Proactive and able to work on own initiative with excellent time management and prioritising skills
• Be a supportive team player with strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work in partnership with a wide range of professionals, agencies, and internal/external stakeholders
• Ability to manage change successfully in a way that prioritises the needs of service users
• Understand the importance of information governance processes and commit to follow and apply all necessary safeguards
• Seek out learning opportunities to improve and broaden your professional knowledge and skills and to contribute and oversee the learning and development of others

What we will give to you:

• 25 days holiday (bank holidays) rising with each year's service (capped at 30 allocated pro rata)
• Paid Wellness hour each week along with a Wellness hub and Employee Assist Programme
• Contributory pension scheme
• Several benefits including discounts for shopping, cinema, holidays, etc.
• A friendly and supportive team
• Training, career development, progression opportunities, generous refer-a-friend scheme

If this sounds like you and you'd like to begin your journey with Change Grow Live, then we'd love to talk to you. Please ensure that when completing your application form and supporting statement you reflect on the details outlined in the job description. This will help us understand how your skills and experiences align with the requirements of the role.

Direct applications only; we will not be engaging agencies for this vacancy. Please note: This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Applicants must already have the right to work in the UK at the time of application. For applicants with time-limited visas, unfortunately, we are unable to support new visa applications or extensions.

We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if we receive a high number of applications, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at an enhanced level.