Recovery Coordinator - Family Team

Do you want to work for a caring organisation that believes in people?

Do you want to make a difference?

 

• Reducing drug and alcohol related harm to service users and their family
• Supporting service users from point of entry into the service and through their treatment/recovery journey

• Providing psycho-social interventions and follow up service users who need support with issues surrounding parental care and vulnerable adult issues with a focus on the Whole/Think Family agenda and support based on building personal assets and generating recovery capital.

• Promoting carer, service user and community involvement 

• Identify those suitable to attend the Moving Parents and Children Together (MPACT) programme, supporting to facilitate group work to those who are deemed suitable.

• 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, family relationships, peer support and self-determination 
• The role is based across the Kirklees area and as the family team we deliver our interventions within the community and family homes, driving is desired
• Occasional out of hours work will be required.

 

 About you: 

 

• Have a good understanding of substance misuse issues and experience of working with people 
• Be an excellent communicator, both verbal and skills in defensible documentation
• Proactive and able to work on own initiative with excellent time management and prioritising skills 
• Have a good working knowledge of family services and frameworks and interventions for whole family practices  
• Be a supportive team player with strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work in partnership with a wide range of professionals, agencies, and internal/external stakeholders
• Ability to manage change successfully in a way that prioritises the needs of service users 
• Ability to demonstrate professional curiosity, caseload management and flexibility to achieve personalised treatment and care 
• Understand the importance of information governance processes and commit to follow and apply all necessary safeguards 
• Seek out learning opportunities to improve and broaden your professional knowledge and skills and to contribute and oversee the learning and development of others

 

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

N/A - Outside London Weighting Area

24/7/2026

19/7/2026

Erin Ratcliffe | Erin.Ratcliffe@cgl.org.uk | 07739983053

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