Substance Misuse Recovery Coordinator - Family Safeguarding

About the role:

• To deliver outreach services to families promoting access for service users and
• concerned others
• 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
• To adhere to policies and processes in delivery of services - particularly lone working and health and safety related to working with complex service users.
• To undertake focused work with families of interest.
• To provide rapid and flexible interventions where required to meet the needs of the service users.

About you:

• Have a strong understanding of substance misuse issues and experience of working within a similar field
• Experience of safeguarding and working in the substance misuse field.
• Knowledge of the issue facing families where substance misuse is present.
• Good knowledge of local community based support practices.