Recovery Coordinator
Location: Better Days Bolton, Queen Street, Bolton, BL1 1SX.
Working Hours: 37 hours per week, 9am‑5pm Monday‑Friday with the expectation to work one late night on a rota basis.
Contract Type: Permanent.
Salary: £25,877.80 – £34,240.03 per annum.
Role Overview
As a Recovery Coordinator you will provide collaborative recovery planning and case management to substance misusers across all stages of their recovery journeys, from assessment and engagement through to sustained recovery.
Key Responsibilities
* Manage a service-user caseload, devising, implementing and reviewing ongoing recovery plans and treatment.
* Carry out triage/screening assessments and comprehensive assessments with service users.
* Work collaboratively with partner agencies to undertake shared assessments and interventions to promote progression from engagement through structured treatment to self-sustained recovery.
* Facilitate service-user access to treatment and community resources to increase recovery and social capital.
* Lead effective case management, including risk assessments, risk management plans and safeguarding assessments and plans.
* Use an online case-management system effectively.
* Collaborate with the multi-disciplinary team and external agencies, providing advice, reports and information to managers and colleagues, through reviews, meetings, supervision and telephone conversations.
* Improve outcomes for families of service users by reducing the impact of drug and alcohol related harm and promoting positive family involvement in recovery.
* Develop and deliver quality programmes and psychosocial interventions in group and one-to-one formats.
* Identify and prevent potential harm to service users and others by following local and organisational safeguarding guidelines.
* Support key service functions through drug screening, duty work, BBV testing, immunisation service provision, community needle exchange and tailored harm-reduction interventions.
* Promote visible recovery across the service and ensure peer support opportunities are accessible.
* Reduce substance-related harm to the individual and wider community.
Essential Criteria
* NVQ Level3 in Health & Social Care (or above or equivalent) or willingness to work towards this in post.
* Understanding and ability to implement interventions, including brief interventions, MI, PSIs, CBT, and ITEP.
* Experience delivering 1‑2‑1 and group therapeutic interventions.
* Experience working with carers and families.
* Proficient in Microsoft Office programmes.
Desirable Criteria
* Relevant professional qualification e.g. addiction studies, counselling, social work, therapeutic qualification.
* Experience working with best-practice frameworks such as NICE, DOH, NTA, NMC, Care Quality Commission & Caldicott Standards.
* Experience carrying out assessment and recovery planning and risk management plans.
* Experience delivering 1‑2‑1 therapeutic interventions.
* Knowledge of working within Safeguarding and Hidden Harm.
* Driving licence and access to vehicle.
Benefits
* 27 days’ annual leave, rising to 32 after 1 year (plus bank holidays).
* Pension scheme with 4.5% employer contribution, matched up to 6.5%.
* Life assurance (3× annual salary).
* Enhanced sick pay and family-friendly pay.
* Birthday leave and option to buy up to 5 extra days’ annual leave.
* Professional fee reimbursement for relevant qualifications.
* 24/7 online GP access and Employee Assistance Programme.
* Recognition and long-service awards via Way to Go and Aspirations portals.
* £500 Recommend a Friend bonus.
* Cycle to Work scheme and Credit Union membership.
* Discounts via Blue Light Card, Charity Discounts, Extras and Tickets for Good.
* Free will writing service and wellbeing initiatives throughout the year.
Equal Opportunity
Waythrough is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and communities, especially those with lived experience of the issues we support. We have signed up to the Disability Confident Scheme – all applicants are welcome, and adjustments can be made to enable fair participation.
For application support or adjustments, email our recruitment team: recruitmentteam@waythrough.org.uk.
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