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An exciting opportunity has arisen for a talented and motivated individual to support CSGs role within New Vision Bradford – the alcohol and drug service for adults in the Bradford district.

ROLE PURPOSE

Providing collaborative recovery support to people whose lives are being impacted by alcohol and drug use, guiding individual recovery journeys through treatment and into sustained recovery. You will be working in a small team of recovery professionals designing and delivering group recovery programmes throughout the Bradford district. Group facilitation skills and training delivery experience of short rolling courses are key to this appointment.

This Job Description is not definitive and outlines key accountabilities – colleagues are expected to be flexible regarding their responsibilities and will from time to time be asked to carry out other duties to ensure achievement of organisation goals.

 Roles and responsibilities

1. Establish, develop and deliver a range of innovative structured recovery groups to promote individual service user progression, from engagement, through structured treatment, to self-sustained
2. Engage in training through Waythrough and other CSG delivery partners on specifically designed group work packages and implement these within the service.
3. To be proactive and use information systems and informal discussions with colleagues to identify service users who would be suitable for group work.
4. Use a range of medium/high intense structured psychosocial interventions including motivational interviewing, ITEP, CBT-SBNT and MET in a group setting to promote engagement and retention in treatment services, encourage self-esteem, well-being, self-responsibility and enhanced
5. Where necessary, carry out triage, strengths based comprehensive assessments and risk assessments, and to contribute to the development and implementation of individual recovery
6. To work closely and in partnership with the multi-disciplinary team from across the New Vision Bradford partnership and externally and provide advice and guidance to colleagues, through attendance at reviews, team meetings, group supervision, and via the
7. Comply with all monitoring and evaluation systems, collect, and monitor information as appropriate and provide reports when required and actively contribute to the Partnership achieving successful outcomes for service users. Reduce alcohol and drug related harm to the individual and wider
8. To advertise the availability group work at team meetings and other forums to generate referrals.
9. Undertake continuing professional development including supervision, performance reviews and attending training as/when required.