Young Persons Recovery Worker - Fixed Term

Young Persons (YP) Recovery Worker – Herefordshire Recovery Service (West Midlands) 12-month fixed term, part-time 3 days a week (22.2 hours). Starting salary £25,870 with annual pay progression up to £30,265, pro rata. Due to additional funding, an exciting opportunity has arisen to join Turning Point’s Herefordshire Substance Use Service as a Young Persons Recovery Worker. You will join our large integrated service which delivers treatment across the whole of Herefordshire. You will join our specialist Young People, Young Adult and Families Team delivering substance use treatment to service users aged 11-18. You will have opportunities to progress your career with a structured learning journey and clearly defined career pathways that will enable you to achieve your long-term goals and work to your strengths.

Role Responsibility

• You will support a caseload of Young People; undertaking assessments, developing person centred recovery plans and running evidence-based substance use interventions in groups and on a 1:2:1 basis.
• You will deliver interventions face to face and via telephone and video technology where appropriate.
• As part of the role, you will deliver training and educational sessions to professionals, young people and family members to raise awareness of harm reduction, promote access to treatment and help reduce the risk of escalation of harm.
• Multi-agency working with partner agencies including Youth Offending Teams, Schools, Police, Children’s Homes and Social Services is an essential part of this role.
• The post will likely be co-located with Children’s Social Services to support excellent communication, joint working and effective partnership relationships.
• You will spend your time out and about, working with local partners, going into schools and colleges across the county and seeing young people wherever meets their needs, therefore a full UK driving license and access to a vehicle is an essential requirement.

The Ideal Candidate

• The successful candidate will be a highly effective communicator, efficient and organised and have a real passion for supporting service users to achieve recovery.
• The ability to engage with young people is a fundamental skill required for this role.
• We are also keen to hear from people with lived experience.
• We value individual creativity and initiative and, whatever your role, you will be fully involved in identifying opportunities to improve the quality of our services and the experience of the people we support.
• Your ideas will be listened to, and your suggestions implemented wherever possible.
• You will be supported in your role by extensive training to help develop your skills.
• Our learning culture encourages everyone to stay on top of the latest developments in their field and helps drive service improvement.

About us

As a leading health and social care provider with more than 300 locations across England, we take real pride in the services we offer. We run all of our services on a not-for-profit basis; instead, we invest every penny back into our services and people. We never stop believing in change for the better, and we work constantly to improve the lives of the people we support.

What Benefits Will I Receive?

We know reward looks different to each person and so whether it’s ways to make your money go further, a culture supporting recognition and celebration, or opportunities to boost your career – we want to support you in every way we can with our total reward package. You will get 33 days’ paid holiday a year, increasing with each year of service up to 35 days. Plus the option to buy additional holidays and spread the cost. Join our team and discover the comprehensive benefits we offer by following the link below to explore all the exciting perks available to our employees.

Turning Point Benefits

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