Apprentice Recovery Worker

£19, 012pa

Westminster Semi Independent Team (Complex Needs)

15 months Fixed-Term Contract

37.5 hours per week

St Mungo’s is pleased to announce an exciting opportunity for people who have lived experience of homelessness, drug and / or alcohol, mental health, criminal justice and recovery services.

We are currently recruiting for an Apprentice Recovery Worker to join our Westminster Move On and Resettlement Team supporting clients across a range of semi-independent properties, helping the team to create and maintain a supportive, safe environment for clients who have complex needs including mental health, substance use, alcohol use and complex traumas.

As the Apprentice Recovery Worker, your role will be to support clients in their recovery to access support from appropriate services across Westminster drug, alcohol, mental health and recovery services, (i.e AA, NA, CA, SMART Recovery, mental health services), create a safe environment in which clients are able to build confidence, self-esteem making positive life style changes.

You will help the team to provide assessment and key-working support to clients in various stages of recovery as well as the joint facilitation of various user-led groups, promotion of volunteering and ETE opportunities and identifying, developing and maintaining relationships with external agencies.

We are looking for motivational, positive and passionate role models who will inspire and provide support to clients who have complex support needs and are ready to take the next steps in their Recovery Journey as well as working alongside individual clients to enable them to begin and maintain their progress to become active citizens, using their time purposefully.

St Mungo's Apprenticeship Scheme offers 15 months paid work, a comprehensive training programme and the opportunity to gain a Level 2 or 3 Health & Social Care qualification. There will also be on the job learning and shadowing staff; to observe how they support service-users to achieve their goals. You will be required to attend formal learning whilst working towards the qualification.

To find out more and apply please go to www.mungos.org/current_vacancies

Closing date: 10.00am, 23 rd August 2017

Interview and assessments: 5 th September 2017

At St Mungo’s, equality, diversity and inclusion are central to the organisation's values and how we work. We are in the top 50 of Stonewall’s Workplace Equality Index 2017 and a Disability Confident Employer. To ensure that our workforce reflects the diversity of our clients as well as the communities that we live and work within, we encourage and welcome applications from all sections of the community.