Job Description

DERBYSHIRE RECOVERY PARTNERSHIP

Recovery Connector Team Manager

Full time, fixed term contract to 31/03/25

£26,500 per annum  (top of grade £31,250)

Following securing additional funding, the Derbyshire Recovery Partnership are looking to recruit a Recovery Connector Team Manager. This new and exciting team will involve working intensively with people within the community who are in recovery from drug and/or alcohol use. Each recovery connector will lead within their designated Joined Up Care Derbyshire region (High Peak, Bolsover & NE Derbyshire, Chesterfield, Derbyshire Dales, Amber Valley, Erewash and South Derbyshire).

In this Team Manager role you will manage the Recovery Connector Team of x4 practitioners, lived experience mentors, volunteers and the lived experience career pathway coordinator.  You will be responsible for ensuring the effective and successful connecting of clients in treatment into community recovery support services or other structured meaningful activities. You will support the development and embedding of new lived experience pathways, recruitment, training utilisation of volunteers, and will work to embed an enhanced recovery-focused offer to clients leaving drug and/or alcohol treatment.

The focus of this recovery connector team is helping the engagement and reintegration of clients in recovery from drugs and/or alcohol into planned and structured community-based support and activities, to attain improved health outcomes, unlock potential and achieve personalised recovery goals. The focus of the lived experience pathway coordinator you will be responsible for line managing is supporting individuals affected directly/indirectly by drugs/alcohol to access relevant qualifications, training and experiences to gain employment.

This role can be based in Buxton High Peak, Chesterfield, Ripley, Ilkeston or Swadlincote, working 37.5 hours per week; Monday-Friday 9am-5pm, on a fixed term 12 month contract to 31/03/25.

As an individual, we are looking for someone with previous experience within the field of substance misuse, is self-motivated, can work on their own initiative, but more importantly as part of a team and possess good leadership, communication and organisational skills. The ideal candidate will be confident, dynamic and forward thinking, have experience of line management, safeguarding, partnership working and working with people in recovery from drug/alcohol use.

We really welcome people with lived experience to apply for this position.

Your Rewards:

• Opportunity to access potential yearly salary increments subject to appraisal, meaning potential salary increase up to £31,250 (pro rata)
• 25 days’ annual leave plus Bank Holidays (increasing each year to a maximum of 30 days) (pro rata)
• Benefits including season ticket loan, pension scheme and life assurance
• Support through occupational sick pay, eye-care vouchers and regular wellbeing talks and activities
• Continuous training and career development via PXL our dedicated learning management system
• Access to a 24/7 Employee Assistance programme including telephone and online access
• A rewarding role with the opportunity to help us support people on their journey to recovery and change their lives for the better.
• We’ll ensure you get all the support you need to thrive and succeed in your role and find your place amongst our incredible and collaborative team.

About Phoenix Futures:
Phoenix Futures Group is a charity with over 50 years’ experience and a leading provider of drug and alcohol treatment. Our values are what define us and ensure we work to the highest standards. We believe in being the best, we are passionate about recovery, we value our history and use it to inform our future. We work with local authorities, other charities and service providers across the country to deliver innovative programmes and projects that change lives for the better, setting people on the path to health and emotional wellbeing. We provide a diverse range of services, our expertise in psychosocial treatment and support is the common thread that runs through everything we do. People need psychological interventions, social support, meaningful use of time, sense of purpose and a place of safety to sustain their recovery. At our core, we support people, families and communities to recover from drug and alcohol dependency.

Please see job description for more information.

For details of our Derbyshire Recovery Partnership substance misuse service you can visit: www.derbyshirerecoverypartnership.co.uk.

Applications can be made via: www.phoenixfutures.org.uk

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Job Types: Full-Time. Salaries: 20,000 - 40,000.

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