Opiate Recovery Coordinator

About the Role

Opiate Recovery Coordinator to join the Waltham Forest Opiate Team. The role involves assessing and engaging with service users to ensure they access the right intervention at the right time, in a way that best meets their needs. The service operates as a dynamic, collaborative team including a service manager, medical professionals, nurses, recovery staff, volunteers, administrators, and peer mentors.

Location : Waltham Forest

Hours : Full Time, 37.5 per week

Salary : £27,861.26 – £32,002.35 (Dependent on experience, based on full-time hours; pro rata for part-time hours)

Allowance : £2,195.72 Outer London Weighting pro rata

About the Role

• Provide unwavering support to opiate service users from initial contact through treatment and recovery.
• Implement tailored interventions to reduce harm from opiate use, via group sessions or one-to-one engagement.
• Ensure service users receive a comprehensive, recovery-focused plan.
• Update service user risk assessments within required timeframes or as risk changes.
• Collaborate with other organisations and the community to enhance recovery resources by referring to mutual aid groups and networks.
• Advocate for involvement of family members, service users, and the community.
• Represent service users in accessing partnership services.
• Support social reintegration, promoting recovery, resilience, peer support, and self-determination.

About You

What We Offer

Requirements and Notes

Sharon Murphy | sharon.murphy@cgl.org.uk

This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at an enhanced level.

We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if we receive a high number of applications; apply soon.

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