Young Person's Recovery Worker

Overview

About the role: To work as a member of the Recovery Connections Darlington team as a Young persons recovery worker. The role will assist in developing, implementing and running a recovery support offer for young people, whilst promoting mutual aid and all pathways to recovery. As a young persons recovery worker, you will be supporting a caseload of young people who are experiencing difficulties with substance use. You will work with them to develop recovery plans, deliver a variety of recovery interventions and refer them onto specialist support where necessary. You will proactively engage with young people to provide support training and education around substance use. This post requires flexible working to ensure consistent cover and some occasional out-of-hours working over 7 days.

Person specification

• Experience of working with young people and knowledge of the issues they face
• Respect and belief in Equality and Diversity Practices.
• Good understanding of the 12-step recovery programme and SMART Recovery UK.
• Good understanding of Recovery Capital and the CHIME Model.
• Understanding of issues relating to substance use.
• Understanding of social exclusion effects.
• Acceptance of the importance of upholding quality standards, performance monitoring and collating appropriate statistical information.
• Level 2 accredited qualification in coaching, counselling or health & social care-related areas or willingness to complete within one year (RC will cover the cost)
• Willing to undertake training in health and safety, including assessing high-risk situations for people.
• A caring attitude with an unprecedented belief that people can and do recover from addiction.

Key Duties

• Proactively engage with young people from a variety of diverse backgrounds
• Assist in developing and running a range of group work activities to support individuals, using relevant and recognised theoretical models.
• Promote mutual aid and all pathways of recovery.
• Support people to attend mutual aid meetings.
• To assist in identifying and assessing young people in relation to their recovery support needs.
• Provide general information and advice to young people within the community who have problematic drug and alcohol use and would benefit from recovery support.
• Participate in regular multi-disciplinary review meetings and complete notes/reports as appropriate.
• To communicate professionally over the phone and in person with anybody contacting the service.
• To collate relevant data and information for monitoring and evaluation processes.
• Complete administrative tasks in an accurate and timely manner.
• To perform as a full team member supporting colleagues across the recovery service, and being open to reasonable requests from line management to ensure effective working relationships.
• Understand, uphold and work with the values, ethos, aims and objectives of the organisation.
• Complete organisational induction, relevant training and any other continuous professional development as identified through a line management process.
• At all times adhere to relevant legislation, good practice and in line with CQC standards.
• Represent the organisation, raise its profile and promote its cause.
• Promote and uphold people’s rights in line with a peer-led approach.
• Maintain professional boundaries at all times
• Work to safeguarding legislation and policies for children and vulnerable adults at all times.
• Prepare for and participate in supervision and appraisals.
• Keep abreast of developments in services, legislation and practice relevant to our communities.
• Seek to improve personal performance, contribution, knowledge and skills.
• Attend and participate in project discussions and team meetings as required.
• Work within and be familiar with policies and procedures.
• Work flexibly to maintain the most appropriate level of service provision, and respond to organisational change and development.
• Undertake such other duties as reasonably requested by your line manager.