Job Title: Recovery Worker
Location: High Wycombe – 37.5 hours a week
Location: Aylesbury – 15 hours a week
Salary: £25,350–£26,063 p.a. (pro rata for part time role)
Job type: Permanent role; may include evening, weekend and bank holiday work
Position Purpose:
- To work with the One Recovery Bucks (ORB) team to provide a dedicated comprehensive recovery focused service for people with drug and alcohol misuse across Bucks
- To provide structured psychosocial interventions, group work and harm minimisation support within a recovery framework
- To contribute to the delivery of the company’s business plans and ensuring that the company’s vision and values are embedded within the organisation
Responsibility for:
- The post holder will be responsible for delivering safe and effective psychosocial interventions to drug and alcohol users within a community setting.
- Holding a caseload of service users and being responsible for offering a range of interventions to that individual
- Supporting a service user through their treatment journey from beginning to end
- Embracing the concept of recovery and demonstrating this in your clinical work
- Ensuring that your work is evidence based, up to date and in accordance with current policy and legislation
- Keeping up to date and accurate records and documentation
Your skills & experience will include:
- Extensive experience and a good understanding of service users with drug and alcohol related problems
- Experience in managing a caseload of service users with complex needs
- Awareness of issues faced by others involved with people experiencing drug and alcohol related problems
- Proven verbal and written communication skills with the ability to tailor the message to the audience
- Able to deliver a range of services/treatments/interventions in a person centred, non-judgmental manner
- Able to demonstrate flexibility and creativity when developing support packages
- Collaborative team working skills
- Adaptable and able to work in a challenging and changeable environment
- Ability to deliver against agreed objectives and targets
Qualifications:
- Vocational qualification e.g. NVQ 3 in Health & Social Care or equivalent qualification
- Demonstrable education and/or training in substance use work
Key Competencies:
- Passion and charisma; genuinely motivated to work within a team to drive success
- Results/process oriented by sharing a proactive approach and resourcefulness to manage timelines, analyse priorities, and deliver consistent disciplined actions
- Willingness to change directions frequently in the spirit of continuous improvement to be effective daily and monthly
- Strategic thinker that commands quality, performance, and superior communications with the team and service users
The successful candidate will be required to undertake an enhanced DBS.
The Oasis Partnership is a Disability Confident employer
To apply for either of these posts please email recruitment@oasispartnership.org with your CV and cover letter, stating which role you are interested in.
