Do you want to help build a brighter future for communities and individuals in Oldham & Rochdale by doing a highly rewarding job? Turning Point’s drug & alcohol services are currently expanding during an exciting time in the sector with new funding and investment. We have a range of roles for people passionate about supporting others to make change.
We have roles in different teams including:
1. Community-based treatment services: providing assessment, coordinating treatment, and working in partnership to support individuals. The roles include delivering structured psycho-social interventions in group and one-to-one settings to enable our service users to acquire thinking skills and behaviors to make lasting change.
2. Homeless outreach provision: targeting homeless individuals, offering flexible outreach responses to highly vulnerable individuals sleeping rough or living in temporary accommodation.
3. Criminal Justice rehabilitation/recovery services: working closely with Probation Services, Prisons, and Police to provide rapid, tailored responses that support recovery and rehabilitation.
You will have opportunities to progress your career with a structured learning journey and clearly defined career pathways to achieve your long-term goals and work to your strengths.
Whether you are looking to progress into management and leadership roles or to become a specialist as an Advanced Substance Use Practitioner, Turning Point will support and encourage your career development.
Role Responsibilities
Recovery workers act as ‘key workers’ for a caseload of service users, supporting them to set treatment goals and develop plans to achieve these. The role includes maintaining regular contact, offering advice, information, psycho-social interventions, assessments, risk management planning, and working closely with clinical staff and partner agencies. Effective communication, task management, and a commitment to Turning Point’s values are essential. Candidates with lived experience of substance use, mental health, or homelessness, or those with experience supporting people in health and social care, are encouraged to apply.
The Ideal Candidate
The ideal candidate will have an understanding of substance and alcohol use, challenges, and recovery opportunities. Transferable skills from mental health, housing, or other social care backgrounds are also valued. Flexibility, dynamic working, knowledge of relapse, and barriers to recovery are vital. Excellent communication skills and shared organizational values are important. Our Trainee Recovery Worker program offers entry-level opportunities for those without all the experience needed, supporting career development within the organization.
We value creativity and initiative, encouraging everyone to contribute ideas to improve service quality and user experience. Extensive training and a learning culture support ongoing professional development.
About us
We recognize that reward looks different for everyone. Our total reward package includes:
* 25 days’ paid holiday plus Bank Holidays, increasing up to 27 days + Bank Holidays with each year of service, with options to buy additional holidays.
* Explore our comprehensive benefits here: Turning Point Benefits.
We reserve the right to close this advert early if the position is filled before the closing date.
Starting salary: £25,116, with annual pay progression up to £29,383.
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