Family Recovery WorkerNHS

Job summary

This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship. If it is identified that you require sponsorship to undertake this role your application may be withdrawn

This is an exciting opportunity to join our dedicated and compassionate team of Family Recovery Workers. The team is made up of 8 experienced practitioners working across Hampshire, all passionate about supporting families to achieve meaningful and lasting change.

You will be line managed by a supportive Team Leader and work alongside colleagues who value collaboration, reflective practice, and high-quality family-centred work.

This role is open to applicants with experience in the drug and alcohol field, and we also warmly welcome applications from newly qualified social workers looking to develop their skills in a specialist setting.

You will work closely with Children's Services, supporting families within a priority cohort who require targeted, specialist intervention around substance use. A robust understanding of safeguarding is essential, as the role involves direct work with families, completing assessments and delivering interventions, sometimes within the family home.

Regular supervision is provided, alongside access to excellent training and ongoing professional development, ensuring you feel well supported in this rewarding and impactful role.

Main duties of the job

Family Recovery Worker role working 24 hours per week working in Andover. Some duties include;

• Working in partnership with Children's Services, attending their meetings and having a presence in social services
• Completing consultations with children's services where clients have been identified as needing support
• Delivering substance use awareness training to partnership agencies
• Provision of drug and alcohol treatment to Service Users within the locality.
• Providing Specialist evidence-based Family Interventions to Service Users, families and their careers.
• Supporting a service user and their family through their treatment journey from beginning to end
• Embracing the concept of recovery and demonstrating this in your clinical work
• Running a range of family-based group work programmes and support the Inclusion Recovery Programme
• Ensuring that your work is evidence based, up to date and in accordance with current policy and legislation.
• Completing reports for Children's services and Courts where requested.

Job description

Please read the Person Specification and shortlisting criteria below and ensure you reference how you meet this criteria within your application.

Please see the Job Description and Person Specification documents for further details, a summary is below:

• The role includes caseload management for cases identified by Childrens Services and Inclusion clients
• Working in partnership with childrens services and other key stakeholders
• Supporting families through substance use, providing specialist interventions such as motivational interviewing, CBT, solution focused brief treatment, Brief Interventions, Structured work, Risk Management, Safeguarding and Care Planning.
• The successful candidate will also be supporting the Inclusion Recovery site in Andover, offering support in home visits and providing advice and information around safeguarding and attending the MDT regularly to provide updates

About us

Inclusion, created in 2002 is part of the Specialist Services Care Group of Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT). We provide caring and effective services across England, including, West Yorkshire, West Midlands, East Midlands, West Mercia, Thames Valley, Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Thurrock, Essex.

We support individuals, families and communities who are affected by addiction, crime, mental health or need treatment for their sexual health. We believe that the individuals and families who use our services should receive high quality, committed and inclusive care, realising all the benefits a modern NHS organisation can provide. We work with patients and our staff teams to achieve the best outcomes we can.

Inclusion aspires to become an organisation which embeds trauma informed principles into everything we do. People who use our services, staff and stakeholders will all have a voice in this process as we embark on our journey. We adopt a learning and reflective approach to this work; never claiming to be finished and always keen to develop and grow, acknowledging there will be times when we do not 'get it right'.

We invest heavily in training and development, and the wellbeing of our people, both staff and service users is central to who we are.We are committed to providing the best service we can, and if you share our values, we want you on our team!