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Volunteer Recovery Coach

Organisation: Emerging Futures CIC
Minimum amount of hours required:

4

Time for the opportunity:

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Description of opportunity:

You will promote various options and routes into community based mutual aid and/or community reintegration through adult education, volunteering opportunities, employment, social enterprises and community activities

Key Duties & Responsibilities:

  • Establish professional, supportive relationships with those in recovery through planning and brief interventions to create opportunities for purposeful and sustained recovery in the community upon discharge from structured treatment.
  • Identify aftercare pathways which assist service users in developing strong links with the greater community including mutual aid.
  • Support local case managers in becoming aware of -and including- community recovery options in initial Recovery Care Planning in order to provide a clear, purposeful ‘end point’ for service users in the community upon discharge from structured treatment.
  • Alongside all Emerging Futures Staff, promote the message of hope, recovery capital, visible assertive linkage, collaborative working and meaningful reintegration into the community.
  • Build and maintain active relationships with local groups and businesses to continuously create and maintain opportunities for positive activity service users during and after leaving treatment.
  • Address any concerns service users may have with regards to engaging in community activities and provide support around this in a person-centred, strength-based manner.
  • Creatively and actively identify/map local assets and instigate partnership working opportunities across Birmingham to provide varied options and in turn empower service users to be autonomous through personal choice.
  • Promote local mutual aid groups, providing support where necessary to attend these groups including priming, peer support and in-reach/assertive linkage.
  • Actively support the involvement of families and support networks in service development and delivery.

Requirements:

  • Completion of Emerging Horizons accredited 5-day Recovery Coach training.
  • Take an active role in the wider community and create opportunities for partnership working to make recovery visible, viable and an attractive option for all.
  • Take a flexible approach to working as required to maintain and promote recovery in the community.
  • Constantly seek to improve personal performance, self-development/awareness, professionalism, contribution, knowledge and skills.
Skills / Qualifications:

Essential Criteria:

• An understanding/experience of recovery as a concept as well as the range of recovery pathways available in the community and support individuals to find their own pathway.
• Empathy, compassion, patience, professionalism and understanding of peers and their support networks.
• A non-judgmental, self-aware values-based approach to your own recovery and the recovery of others with the ability to turn your experience into expertise.
• An understanding of addiction and the impact on the family in order to support meaningful community engagement outside of structured treatment/criminal justice settings.
• The confidence, enthusiasm and articulation to clearly explain and promote the services provided by Emerging Futures CIC to the wider general public and local business.
• A commitment to diversity and equal opportunities and a commitment to recovery pathways and their unique nature.
• Ability to maintain professional boundaries and work effectively within a team and with other professional from partnership agencies.

Desirable Criteria

• Knowledge of local services, including both professional and non –professional and knowledge of local area
• To make recovery a reality!
Recruitment Process: Application Form, Informal Discussion, DBS Check
Area of interest: Community Work, Drugs Alcohol and Addictions, Events - Local, LGBTQ+, General and Helping, Health, Hospitals and Hospices, Homeless and Housing, Mental Health, Prisoners and Ex-Offenders, Teaching Training and Coaching

There are currently no volunteer opportunities.