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Apricus Resourcing are working with a leading charitable organisation base din London who are looking for a specialist recovery worker to work on an ongoing locum basis within their young persons and family service in Enfield.

Within your role as a recovery worker within this service you will be providing targeted and specialist interventions based on the whole family approach to children, young people, parents, carers & families who have been effected by drug or alcohol use.

Key Duties for the role include but are not limited to:

* To deliver a range of high quality direct and indirect services to support the needs of children, young people, parents, carers and families in relation to problematic substance use and recovery, through assessments, group work facilitation, recovery planning, case management and one to one interventions.

* Manage a service user caseload, devising, implementing and reviewing on-going recovery plans and treatment, liaising closely with the full range of workers and skills within the service team, including family members and significant others as appropriate.

* Conduct initial triage and comprehensive assessments with children, young people, parents & carers.

* Work collaboratively with partner agencies to undertake shared assessments, key working and interventions to promote individual service user 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, supporting service users and their families within their local community.

* Lead effective case management for allocated service users, including on-going processes such as risk assessments, risk management plans, safeguarding assessments and plans. This includes the effective use of an online case management system.

* Work closely and collaboratively within the multi-disciplinary team across the service and externally, providing advice and reports/ information to managers and other colleagues, through attendance at reviews, team meetings, supervision and via telephone conversations

In order to be considered for the role it’s imperative you have a proven track record of working within the drug and alcohol sector and specifically hold experience of working a recovery worker role in the past/currently. Due to the nature of the role you will need experience of delivering 1-2-1 and group therapeutic interventions & the ability to implement interventions based on the whole family approach.

Benefits of working with Apricus Resourcing

* Free of charge fast tracked DBS disclosure certificate

* Out of hours service/support

* Consultant permanently assigned to you with all the sector expertise required

* Efficient weekly Payroll and professional Compliance Department System, ensuring that you are accurately paid on time, every time

* The most competitive Rates the sector can offer, allowing you to achieve earnings unlike anywhere else

* Leading Referral Bonus, for every successful referral to Apricus

If you feel that you meet the above criteria, we would love to hear from you! Please apply or feel free to contact the office directly and speak to a consultant who can run you through the finer details