Criminal Justice Worker - Blyth.

Service Care Solutions are an industry-leading recruitment agency since 2005 and we've been identified as a preferred supplier and key provider to private substance misuse clients and substance misuse NHS trusts across the country, with a successful reputation of supplying temporary and permanent staff.

Service Care are currently recruiting for a Recovery Co-ordinator role in Blyth.

Location: Blyth
Pay Rate: Up to £16 per Hour
Hours: 37.5 hours per week.




The Role -
The role of a Criminal Justice Worker is to Manage a service user caseload, devising, implementing and reviewing on-going recovery plans, liaising closely with the full range of workers and skills within the service team, including family members and significant others as appropriate.

Criminal Justice Workers will also with service users around ways to prevent further reoffending.

The role within Blyth will involve outreach across the Northumberland area working inline with the Alcohol Outreach team.

The Perfect Candidate -
This role calls for a caring and driven individual who puts others before themselves.
The role involves managing a complex caseload of service users within a busy environment, so experience within this role of role is required.

The perfect candidate would also have good knowledge of substance misuse and the pathways to recovery as to help service users in the most effective way possible.

Recovery Worker requirements

• Continually assess the service users needs, deliver interventions and refer onto appropriate services.


• Liaise with the referring agencies on client's attendance and give appropriate information regarding the client's progress.


• Actively develop relations with Police, Liaison & Diversion, HM Courts, Probation, Housing, Community Agencies and HM Prisons ensuring robust engagement, referral protocols and care pathways are in place ensuring they receive appropriate support.


• Excellent understanding of drug and alcohol issues and experience of working within a related field.


• Accomplished written and verbal communication skills and a high degree of personal IT competency.

If you are interested in this role then please apply

or send your CV to me -

Paul.Rimmer@servicecare.org.uk

Paul Rimmer

Recruitment Consultant

Substance Misuse team

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