Recovery Coordinator – Family Team

About the Role

Full-time, 37.5 hours per week, based in Huddersfield (may work across Kirklees). Contract type: Permanent.

Responsibilities

• Reducing drug and alcohol related harm to service users and their families.
• Supporting service users from point of entry into the service and through their treatment/recovery journey.
• Providing psycho‑social interventions and follow‑up for service users who need support with issues surrounding parental care and vulnerable adult issues, focusing on the Whole/Think Family agenda and support based on building personal assets and generating recovery capital.
• Promoting carer, service user and community involvement.
• Identifying those suitable to attend the Moving Parents and Children Together (MPACT) programme, and supporting group work for those 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.
• Delivering interventions across the Kirklees area within the community and family homes; driving is desired.
• Occasional out of hours work required.

Qualifications & Experience

• Good understanding of substance misuse issues and experience working with people.
• Excellent communicator, both verbal and written, with strong documentation skills.
• Proactive, able to work on own initiative, with excellent time‑management and prioritising skills.
• Good working knowledge of family services, frameworks and interventions for whole family practices.
• Supportive team player with strong interpersonal skills and ability to partner with a wide range of professionals, agencies and stakeholders.
• Ability to manage change successfully, prioritising the needs of service users.
• Demonstrated professional curiosity, caseload management and flexibility to achieve personalised treatment and care.
• Understanding of information governance processes and commitment to apply all necessary safeguards.
• Drive to learn and improve, contributing to the development of others.

What We Offer

• Dedicated weekly Wellness Hour, access to our Wellness Hub and a comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme.
• Commitment to development: extensive training, funded learning and pathways into senior or specialist roles.
• Transparent pay, contributory pension scheme and additional wellbeing support.
• Starting with 25 days of annual leave plus bank holidays (pro rata), increasing to 30 days over five years of service.
• Supportive, values‑led team where you’ll feel encouraged and valued from day one.
• Discussion of working patterns to support a healthy work‑life balance.
• Discounts on shopping, cinema trips and holidays, plus a Refer a Friend scheme.

Salary & Benefits

• Points 23 to 28 (£28,557.79 – £32,802.41).
• Outside London weighting area.

Legal Information

This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship and applicants must already have the right to work in the UK at the time of application. For applicants with time‑limited visas, we are unable to support new visa applications or extensions.

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

Full‑time hours at Change Grow Live are 37.5 hours per week. For part‑time roles, the salary and payments will be pro rata based on contracted hours.

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