Women at Risk Recovery Coordinator

Change Grow Live

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Change Grow Live are a charity dedicated to the belief that we can make a difference to our Service Users lives, offering support and respect in a safe environment, treating each user as an individual and working with them to find the right treatment and care options. Our core values are ‘Be open, be compassionate and be bold’ and our team members apply these daily to achieve our mission of helping people change the direction of their lives, grow as individuals, and live life to its full potential. We are seeking a dedicated Women’s Worker to provide assertive outreach, supporting women experiencing homelessness to access vital services and improve their life opportunities. This role offers the chance to make a tangible difference across health, wellbeing, safety, and reducing offending behaviours. You will play a key part in facilitating access to both pharmacological and psycho-social interventions for those facing substance misuse challenges, whilst working within a multi-disciplinary team and alongside a range of partners to deliver holistic, life-changing support.

Requirements

Have a strong understanding of substance misuse issues and experience of working within a similar field
Experience of working with groups/pods and managing group dynamics, such as conflict or challenging behaviour.
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
Have a good working knowledge of mental health interventions, services, and good practice
Experience of communicating effectively with hostel staff, health and social care staff and those individuals who are homeless, sleeping rough or sofa surfing
The ability to work remotely and autonomously.
The experience of engaging with a wide variety of individuals with a variety of backgrounds and needs.
The ability to work with and manage challenging behavior.
Knowledge of local geographical area - Coventry
Knowledge of local services including mutual aid networks.
Work with agencies and individuals outside of the normal geographical area covered
Access to a car and clean driving licence.
Genuine occupational requirements – Please note it is a Genuine Occupational Requirement under the Equality Act 2010 for the successful applicant to be female.
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.

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
To support women to engage with substance misuse services
Assist in co-ordinating access to substance misuse interventions for women as part of a wider multi-disciplinary team
To signpost or refer women with mental health, offending behaviours, domestic abuse, sexual violence, in the sex industry and or who have been trafficked to the appropriate services.
Participate in assertive outreach to support women who are sex working on the street and engaged in night time economy.
To represent CGL in appropriate forums and networks, both locally and nationally, relating to women only services and facilities
To contribute to the implementation and promotion of the service and champion women only issues
To be part of a high performing team that achieves targets as set across a range to key deliverables
Be on a rota for early morning and late night outreach to engage individuals successful into treatment.
Working across key partner agency locations to ensure barriers to accessing treatment are reduced.

Benefits

25 days holiday (+ bank holidays) rising by 1 day for each years’ service “Capped at 30 days”
Paid ‘Wellness’ hour each week along with a ‘Wellness’ hub and Employee Assist Programme
Contributory pension scheme
Several benefits incl. discounts for shopping, cinema, holidays, etc.
A friendly and supportive team
Training, career development & progression opportunities
Refer a friend voucher scheme.

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