Women's Outreach Recovery Coordinator

Location: Southend on Sea

Salary: £24,000 per annum, plus benefits

We are recruiting for a Women's Outreach Recovery Coordinator.

Here at STARS Southend Treatment and Recovery Service we help people who have issues with drugs and/or alcohol and want to make a positive change. We also support the family and friends of people who are worried about their loved ones substance use, or have been affected by it.

Role Responsibilities

To engage with a range of women who have adopted ‘street-based living’ including rough sleepers and beggars with a view to engaging them in appropriate services and moving them into more settled lifestyles.

To engage with women who sell sex; and build strong partnerships with partner agencies to support the women into appropriate treatment pathways.

Increase service user choice, service user involvement and empower service users to maintain sustainable change; working collaboratively and proactively to ensure that services are fully co-ordinated and are working collectively towards the achievement of goals and positives outcomes for each individual client.

To build and develop service users’ personal strengths and social networks in the UK and/or in the individual’s country of origin. To provide a range of flexible and effective interventions to engage with hard to reach service users. 

The Ideal Candidate

Please see a list of skills and experience needed below for this role.

• Understanding of the needs of women who are rough sleeping and/or begging and/or selling sex.
• In-depth knowledge of at least one of the following: substance misuse, alcohol
• misuse, mental health, sex working.
• Understanding of service users who have multiple and complex needs.
• Understanding the importance of multi-agency working within a strength based, asset building approach and maintaining professional boundaries.
• Good administrative, recording and reporting skills.
• Knowledge of safeguarding procedures applicable to children and vulnerable adults.
• Knowledge of Supported Housing
• The ability to work with confidence and patience with service users unwilling to engage with services and those that exhibit challenging behaviour.
• The ability to work unsociable hours as and when required.
• Good level of IT literacy, including the ability to use IT systems, including Microsoft Office applications.

About Us

We are The Forward Trust, the social enterprise with charitable status that empowers people to break the often interlinked cycles of crime and addiction to move forward with their lives. For more than 25 years we have been working with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past. We believe that anyone is capable of lasting change. Our services have supported thousands of people to make positive changes and build productive lives with a job, family, friends and a sense of community.

We are committed to our cause and the work we carry out as a charity. Equally the wellbeing and the employees who work for us are also important. Joining us an employee, we will offer you the following benefits - 

• Flexible working
• Training and development opportunities
• Simply Health Cashback Scheme (optional)
• Season Ticket Loan Scheme 
• Cycle to work scheme
• Crisis Loan Scheme
• Electric Car Scheme
• 3 x Wellbeing Days (pro rata'd for part time employees)
• Access to Blue Light Card
• 25 days (rising to 30 with length of service) Annual Leave plus Bank Holidays 
• Contributory Pension Scheme – Employer matched contributions of up to 6% in the first two years’ service and up to 9% thereafter 
• Death in Service Payment (2x annual salary) 
• Critical Illness Insurance (subject to qualifying criteria)

To Apply

If you feel you are a suitable candidate and would like to work for this reputable company, please proceed through the following link to be redirected to their website to complete your application.

https://careers.forwardtrust.org.uk/vacancies/245/women-s-outreach-recovery-coordinator.html

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