Working within Stonepillow’s Recovery Service, a unique community based 12-bed residential rehabilitation service for people with drug and/or alcohol problems.  The service is designed for people who are abstinent from substances and your role will be to support service users to increase their independence, improve their quality of life and achieve their personal goals by offering recovery focused support in the form of 1:2:1’s, group work and supporting individuals to access education, volunteering and employment.

Working with the Recovery Manager to ensure that all activity in the service is carried out to the highest quality and ensure that the service maintains a safe and supportive environment by assisting in the development of clear protocols, policies and procedures in order to achieve this.

The post involves assisting in the leading and supervising of staff in the implementation of support planning incorporating risk management, working with our partner organisations and external agencies and auditing client files to ensure this work is happening.

Your duties would include:

• To assist the Recovery manager in the delivery of a quality services
• To ensure regular supervision of support staff at the Recovery services.
• To develop and maintain excellent working relationships with local partners.
• To assist the manager in overseeing the effective engagement and delivery of therapeutic interventions proactively supporting the goals of recovery abstinent and harm-reduction

• To support and guide the team to assess clients, assess risk, prepare individual recovery plans and motivate service users to actively engage with their treatment journey
• To maintain a safe and welcoming environment and ensure health and safety standards are adhered to.
• To contribute to the organisation on call Rota
• Deputise for the Recovery Manager in their absence 

We are looking for an enthusiastic, positive and driven individual, with experience of working with substance misuse and/or mental health issues in a recovery-orientated setting.

A working knowledge of CQC Regulated Activities and safeguarding is desirable as well as experience of delivering group work.

The benefits of working at Stonepillow:

• Healthcare and wellbeing support including access to in-app virtual appointments with NHS registered GPs and access to a comprehensive Employee Assistance programme with face-to-face counselling
• A medical cashback scheme and retail discounts
• Stakeholder pension, employer contribution of 5%

A bit about us:

Stonepillow support and empower homeless and vulnerable people with compassion and commitment to achieve sustainable independence and wellbeing and make positive changes in their lives.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a high volume of applications has been received. 

Early applications are encouraged, interviews will commence before the closing date if suitable candidates are identified

• Please view the Recovery Pathways coordinator JD document