Recovery Practitioner/Housing Support Worker
Adferiad Recovery delivers a flexible and coordinated response to the exceptional circumstances faced by people with co-occurring mental health and substance use conditions and related issues. Vulnerable people facing complex life challenges need consistent and seamless support to ensure they remain engaged with vital health and wellbeing services – and to prevent them becoming disenfranchised and isolated.
Hours: 30 hours per week, Hours will include weekends and bank holidays and unsocial hours (plus additional payments for worked unsocial hours: between 22:00 and 8:00 – 26% of hourly rate.
Work Pattern: Current ROTA is in continuous shifts for example: 3/4 days in work and 4/5 days off work. Subject to change although ROTA's are completed 13 weeks in advance.
Weekends 48 hours – 8.5% of hourly rate; Bank Holidays – 33% of hourly rate; Sleep-ins - £60.00 (only one of these enhancements is paid per any hour)
Salary: £23,658.53 per annum (pro rata £18,926.82)
Location: Wrexham
The role:
The Wrexham Supported Accommodation project delivers the service across three different models of accommodation support, low level, medium level and the new development of the 24-hour shared supported accommodation to occupants who are diagnosed as experiencing a serious mental illness and co-occurring substance use disorder. These occupants may have been assessed as needing high levels of intensive support to help with their recovery and independence. The Wrexham Housing Schemes are staffed 7 days a week, 24 hours per day with on-site waking nights and additional sleep-in cover. The aim of the staff team, therefore, will be to encourage and enable clients to reach a greater level of independence over a reasonable period, and then to facilitate their move on to more independent living in the community with the opportunity of receiving further support from our outreach services.
Proposed Interview Date: Wednesday 28th August 2024
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
If you think you might have these skills, but are not 100% sure, please do still apply and let us decide. We know that certain groups rule themselves out of interesting opportunities assuming that others will be more successful, but please don't be that person. We want to hear from the widest cross section of the community.
Adferiad Recovery welcomes applications from everyone with the right to work in the UK, and values diversity in the workplace. All employees are required to act inclusively to encourage, promote, and cultivate our values. (such as rights affirming and cultural diversity).
Working towards becoming a Rights Affirming organisation, we actively encourage applications from people where the Person Specification calls for a particular qualification or experience, we will consider waiving these requirements if an applicant who could not achieve them because of a disability can demonstrate he/she would be capable of performing well in the job and fulfils the criteria in other respects.
A Full UK Driving License is required for this role, If you are registered disabled, reasonable adjustments will be considered.
FOR MORE INFORMATION A FULL PERSON SPECIFICATION AND HOW TO APPLY, PLEASE GO TO OUR WEBSITE: https://adferiadrecovery.peoplehr.net/Pages/JobBoard/Opening.aspx?v=a954d556-eff9-48ed-ba40-94f895c5afa3
If you have difficulty accessing this information or would like it in a different format, please contact our recruitment team at recruitment@adferiad.org or 01492 863005
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