Job Description:

We currently seeking a Substance Misuse Recovery Worker for our client in Nelson on a 3 month contract to start ASAP.

The rate of pay will be £21-23 an hour.  This will be 37.5 Hour a Week Contract, Monday to Friday.

As a Recovery Worker you will be required to:  

• 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 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.

An Enhanced Adults and Children's DBS on the Update Service will be required for this position.