Phoenix Futures is looking to recruit a passionate and solution focussed Senior Young Persons Recovery Worker for our HYPE service in partnership with CNWL. As a Senior Worker, you will lead and drive the YP service within the Borough, have line management responsibilities alongside holding a caseload of young persons. You will develop and deliver educational awareness in YP settings; ie, schools, colleges, though workshops, assemblies and will be confident in building and maintaining relationships with external partnership agencies in order to fully support the client through their recovery.
As an individual, we are looking for someone who is self-motivated, can work on their own initiative, but more importantly, as part of a team. You will need good communication and organisational skills. Successful candidates will be dynamic and forward thinking with keen insight into preventative and early intervention methods. The ideal candidate will have experience of line management, safeguarding and working with young people presenting with substance, alcohol and associated issues.
The Phoenix Futures Group has more than 50 years’ experience of developing and delivering pioneering substance misuse services. We believe in being the best and that is why we constantly strive to learn and innovate, to challenge ourselves, to adapt and to work together with others who can bring valuable expertise. Join us and we will support you to contribute to the creative development of our treatment and recovery approach to meet the needs of our service users, our commissioners and stakeholders. You’ll also have access a range of learning and development opportunities to support your personal and professional development.
Phoenix Futures is a 5* star Recognised for Excellence organisation, an Investors in People Gold organisation and a Sunday Times Top 100 Best Employer
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Are you a recovery practitioner seeking a new opportunity to provide recovery-focused care to people who use substances in one of WDP’s fully integrated flagship services?
The Service
Launched in 2018, WDP Merton is a fully integrated substance misuse service, providing clinical and psychosocial interventions, operating from a main treatment hub, with additional satellites within the community. The team actively promotes recovery and works with individuals that are directly and indirectly affected by substance misuse, working with the local community to improve the health, wellbeing and functioning of Merton residents, irrespective of circumstance.
Like other organisations, WDP have adapted their service model as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic. We remain passionate and committed to supporting people who are experiencing increased used of substances - or are struggling to maintain their recovery - as a response to change, worry, isolation, or illness during this crisis. Consistent with our outstanding CQC rating for the key line of enquiry ‘responsive’, we are adapting and innovating to enable us to keep doing that.
The Role
This is an exciting opportunity to hold a mixed caseload in a thriving service making positive changes in service users’ lives, through a non-judgemental, recovery-based approach that values the strengths and choices of those individuals.
We are committed, organised and highly motivated candidates, with an in-depth knowledge and experience of the challenges affecting people with substance misuse and related health and wellbeing issues.
Through joining WDP you will receive a warm welcome, peer support, training, regular supervision and the chance to thrive in a lively and innovative service.
Conditions
- Salary band of £24,627 - £29,000 per annum
- Permanent contract
- 37.5 hours per week
Location
The role is based at the Merton hub, but at times may involve travel to external meetings and satellites within the borough, and to other WDP locations as needed.
Why Should You Apply?
- An opportunity to join one of WDP’s flagship services and contribute to service development.
- Be part of a high-performance team that is focused on quality and welcomes innovation.
- Competitive salary
The closing date for applications is Sunday 25th October 2020 at 00:00 midnight. Interviews will take place week commencing 2nd of November are likely to take place via Zoom and may include a presentation component.
WDP and Our Values
WDP is an innovative behaviour-change charity. We facilitate long-lasting transformation in people’s lives to improve health, wellbeing and social integration. We work across the fields of substance misuse, young person’s support, employability, sexual health and inpatient services.
All staff are required to work to WDP’s four values:
- Entrepreneurial
- In partnership
- Strong belief in service users
- Community focused
WDP is a recovery focused organisation. Our staff and volunteers are committed to helping our service users to improve their health and wellbeing, and to become free from dependency.
WDP is committed to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults. All post holders are subject to a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service check.
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The Role
DHI is an award-winning charity that challenges social exclusion by supporting people to achieve their potential and contribute to the richness and wellbeing of their community. We are looking for individuals who share our passion for our values of self-direction, stimulation and zest for life and our commitment to our client groups and the local communities we serve.
Are you a positive resilient individual committed to working collaboratively with GP’s, our partners and other community and healthcare organisations to provide a wide range of services including; telephone assessments, content based groups & workshops, creating support plans & risk assessments in a large & mixed team of colleagues and peers?
You feel confident around IT using our Caseload Management IT system to record attendance and outcomes and communicating on the telephone making contact with clients on a daily basis.
You have experience of working with people with substance use issues, and can offer a range of harm reduction advice and information, manage safeguarding concerns and have an interest in developing your knowledge of interventions and support that can in turn support our clients.
Please note, we would especially welcome applicants who speak Polish.
If you are interested please contact HR to arrange an informal discussion regarding the role.
Please indicate on your application form if you are interested in the full time role or the part time role.
How To Apply
Please visit the DHI website and use the enclosed Job Description and Person Specification to complete an application form and skills form, and send to HR before Midday Wednesday 4th November 2020
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Our Women’s Therapy Service is an in-house therapy service that offers a range of therapeutic interventions including EMDR and integrative counselling.
We are looking for an experienced Level 5 BACP accredited counsellor to deliver counselling and lead with referrals and assessment within this service.
Working 16 hours a week, you will hold a clinical case load (comprised predominantly of women who are residents at our mother and child rehab). You will also receive and record all referrals, assess all referrals for appropriate interventions, maintain up to date records of referrals and work alongside the Clinical Lead to monitor and evaluate outcomes.
We are looking for a candidate who understands women’s trauma and has experience of working with women with complex or multiple needs. We are looking for someone who is committed to working from a trauma informed perceptive.
This is a service is run by women for women, it will therefore be restricted to female applicants under the Equality Act 2010, Schedule 9, and Part 1.
Any offer of employment will be subject to an Enhanced DBS disclosure, costs of which will be met by Trevi.
Closing date is Friday 4th September at 4pm.
First round interviews will take place via Zoom / Skype on Friday 11th September.
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We are looking for a confident and experienced person to manage and develop our range of therapeutic programmes. These include a busy low-cost counselling service and other projects using counsellors, psychoeducational classes, an out-of-hours café for people in emotional crisis, a hoarding project, and the provision of key working and support for residents of our supported housing.
You will be a qualified, experienced mental health professional with proven management experience and a keen interest in diverse therapeutic interventions.
If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you.
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Action Against Hunger has a vision of a world free from hunger. For almost 40 years, across nearly 50 countries, we have led the global fight against hunger. We save the lives of children and work with their communities before and after the disaster strikes. We enable people to provide for themselves, see their children grow up strong, and build prosperous communities. We constantly search for more effective solutions, while sharing our knowledge and expertise with the world. We push for long-term change. We will never give up. Until the world is free from hunger.
We are recruiting a MEAL and Information Management Senior Advisor to join our Operations team. This is a fulltime permanent position based in the United Kingdom responsible for leading on projects implementing knowledge management and learning services across the Action Against Hunger network as well as for a number of external organisations as part of our growing consultancy model.
This post sits within the UK MEAL Services Team of MEAL and knowledge and information management specialists working across a wide variety of projects, actively seeking to generate new business opportunities to improve practice in the sector.
This person will play an integral part in MEAL and knowledge and information management of humanitarian response projects and nutrition projects, delivering key learning outcomes as part of a passionate team of practitioners. Responsible for managing resources and leading on strategic MEAL projects, the postholder will also manage, support and develop a small team of MEAL Advisors.
You must have knowledge of current practices, trends and standards in working within a humanitarian, nutrition, international development or similar organisation, among other skills.
What is Action Against Hunger’s mission? Action Against Hunger’s mission is to save lives, especially those of malnourished children, and to work... Read more
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