Apprenticeship Opportunity at CGL Leamington Spa

An exciting Apprenticeship opportunity has arisen within CGL Leamington Spa for you to join a dynamic team committed to providing intensive key work to families who have drug and/or alcohol misuse issues.

At Change Grow Live Leamington Spa, as a Recovery Worker Apprentice, you will be working towards the Adult Care Level 2 apprenticeship, over the duration of 18 months, alongside your daily roles and responsibilities.

Role Overview

The post holder will work as an integral part of the multi-disciplinary team at the service named above to deliver high quality provision by:

• 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.

Daily Roles and Responsibilities

• Support the recovery team in engaging people who have substance misuse problems and providing them with advice, support and recovery focused interventions to support their recovery and primary health care needs.
• Over time and with training, build therapeutic relationships and deliver a tailor-made package of care including: Recognised psycho-social interventions; 1to1 key work, POD and group work; Harm minimisation and brief interventions.
• Participate in service user assessments and learn to develop individual recovery plans that clearly identify how achieving each goal will enable progression in addressing substance use and re/integrating into the community.
• Work with the team on developing CGL’s links with local recovery groups / mutual aid groups.
• Learn how other team members’ work, such as prescribing clinicians, nurses and psychologists.
• Learn about the process of developing ‘recovery resources’ and accessing peer and mutual support groups so that you can support service users in developing their own recovery strategies.
• To participate in the smooth running of the service, by contributing to tasks such as reception and administrative tasks as required.
• Learn about harm minimisation, in particular blood borne viruses and overdose prevention, so that you can explain the strategies to other people.