Recovery Coordinator in Stafford

Are you passionate about supporting people on their recovery journey? Do you have the skills to manage complex caseloads and deliver high-quality, person-centred care? If so, we'd love you to join our team.

We are looking for a Recovery Coordinator (Band 5) to join our well-established Drug and Alcohol Services team. This is a key role in delivering structured treatment and recovery support for individuals affected by substance misuse, including those prescribed opioid substitution therapy (OST).

What You'll Do:

• Manage a caseload of clients with complex needs, including those prescribed OST.
• Complete comprehensive assessments, risk management plans, and recovery plans.
• Deliver structured psychosocial interventions (PSI) and facilitate group work.
• Conduct regular care planning and reviews in line with national guidance.
• Work closely with multi-agency partners to provide holistic support.
• Contribute to safeguarding processes and risk escalation where required.

What We're Looking For:

• Experience in substance misuse services or related health/social care settings.
• Strong understanding of recovery-focused approaches and harm reduction.
• Excellent communication and organisational skills.
• Ability to manage complex caseloads and work collaboratively with partners.
• Knowledge of national guidance and clinical governance requirements.

Main duties of the job:

To provide dedicated comprehensive support to people with drug use problems, their families, and friends within the organisational framework of STaRS (Staffordshire Trent and Recovery System). Provision of drug & alcohol treatment to Service Users within the locality. You will be responsible for holding a caseload of service users and being responsible for offering a range of interventions to those individuals. Supporting service users through their treatment journey from beginning to end. Embracing the concept of recovery and demonstrating this in your clinical work. Ensuring that your work is evidence-based, up to date, and in accordance with current policy and legislation. Keeping up to date and accurate records and documentation.

About us:

Inclusion, created in 2002, is part of the Specialist Services Care Group of Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT). We provide caring and effective services across England, including West Yorkshire, West Midlands, East Midlands, West Mercia, Thames Valley, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, and Thurrock, Essex. We support individuals, families, and communities who are affected by addiction, crime, mental health, or need treatment for their sexual health. We believe that the individuals and families who use our services should receive high quality, committed, and inclusive care, realising all the benefits a modern NHS organisation can provide. We work with patients and our staff teams to achieve the best outcomes we can. We invest heavily in training and development, and the wellbeing of our people, both staff and service users, is central to who we are.

Here at MPFT, we are proud of the comprehensive wellbeing and lifestyle support offer available, in addition to in-house training and coaching support. Our services are robustly governed, evidence-based, inclusive, and designed and provided in conjunction with service users. We are committed to providing the best service we can, and if you share our values, we want you on our team!

Job responsibilities:

This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship. If it is identified that you require sponsorship to undertake this role, your application may be withdrawn. Please see the attached job description for the full list of duties and responsibilities.

Here is a summary:

• Provide harm reduction advice, information, and support with an emphasis on safer drug use, safer sex, HIV, Hepatitis A, B, and C, and other blood borne infections.
• Offer Naloxone to all Clients due to risks presenting, or as a precautionary measure.
• Be responsible for maintaining a full caseload of complex clients as the key worker.
• Provide and record specific strength-based interventions in line with the module.
• Adhere to the module framework and ensure to adhere to the 4 phases module approach.
• Provide a range of structured psycho-social interventions including CBT based brief solution focused therapy and motivational enhancement techniques.

Person Specification:

Qualifications: Foundation Degree / HNC in related field which may include counselling, social work, nursing, psychology, human resources, social studies or equivalent experience.

Experience: Considerable experience of working with drug users. A sound experience of working with techniques such as CBT, Motivational interviewing, and Solution focused therapy.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check: This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.