Recovery Coordinator

 

At Change Grow Live, our commitment to making a difference in the lives of those who use our services is unwavering. We provide support, respect, and a safe environment, where we tailor our approach to each individual's needs to find the best treatment and support options.

 

Guided by our core values of being open, compassionate and bold, our team embodies these principles daily, striving to empower individuals to reshape their lives, foster personal growth, and embrace life to its fullest.

 

We have an exciting opportunity for a Recovery Coordinator to join our team who has the skills and experience to assess and engage with our service users, ensuring that they access the right intervention at the right time, in a way that best meets their needs.

 

With this role you’ll be working as part of Birmingham Womens and Familes Team, working to support individuals across Birmingham.  

 

• Work with partnership agencies to safeguard people that use the service and or their families to attend meetings and present reports.
• To produce comprehensive reports for Court and Birmingham Children’s Trust where required.
• To participate in assertive outreach to encourage the engagement of women in their recovery.
• Supporting service users from point of entry into the service and through their treatment/recovery journey  
• Providing screening, assessment, and recovery planning and onward referral  
• Reducing drug and alcohol related harm to service users and the wider community  
• 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  

 

• Substance misuse services
• Rehabilitation services
• Support worker within elderly care or with adults with a learning disability
• Prison service
• Children’s services, supporting young people
• Hospitals and other medical practices
• Safeguarding

• Hold a full current UK Driving License with access to own transport or be able to prove the ability to travel between services efficiently.
• An understanding of drug and alcohol issues and experience of working within a related field.
• Gender specific working and associated risks and challenges
• People experiencing multiple disadvantages ie: Homelessness, Mental health, Domestic Abuse.
• Experience in managing caseloads of people within a CQC registered service
• A commitment to multi-agency working and establishing partnerships with other professions 
• The ability to write comprehensive factual reports.
• The ability to be independently mobile across the City in order to engage Women in their recovery
• The ability to participate in safeguarding meetings and conferences and present findings. 
• The ability to accurately update and maintain records in a timely fashion and to work to deadlines for the submission of information, e.g. reports.
• The ability to participate in safeguarding meetings and conferences and present findings.
• Excellent team working and interpersonal skills, maintaining a highly cooperative approach to supporting colleagues in delivering service objectives.
• Good working knowledge of mental health interventions, services, and good practice.

Please note: This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Applicants must already have the right to work in the UK at the time of application. For applicants with time-limited visas, unfortunately, we are unable to support new visa applications or extensions. More information about eligible roles and occupations can be found here: Skilled Worker visa: Overview - GOV.UK

 

We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if we receive a high number of applications, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

 

Our values are to be compassionate, open and bold. If this sounds like you we’d love to hear from you so click apply.

 

CGL points 23 to 28 (£28,557.79 - £32,802.41)

N/A - Outside London Weighting Area

26/7/2026

Catherine Dowen | catherine.dowen@cgl.org.uk

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