Recovery Caseworker Middlesbrough

What’s involved with this role:

Temporary Caseworker – Recovery Solutions

Reference no: Middlesbrough MID1031579

Pay Rate: £19.91 per hour PAYE

35-37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours

This opening assignment is for 4 months

City: MIDDLESBROUGH

Enhanced DBS disclosure required

Your role will be to work closely with magistrates and judges to consider appropriate sentencing for those in the criminal justice system who require support from substance user services. Working with clients who are due to be released from prison, you will build relationships with community services ensuring the support the client received in prison remains in place when they are released.

Key Responsibilities:

Triaging clients coming through custody.
Working with clients to help them remain engaged with agencies that can move their lives forward positively.
Completing assessments.
Identifying appropriate interventions, services, placements, and packages of support to meet individual needs and goals.
Working evenings and weekends where appropriate to meet service needs.
Working collaboratively with agencies, clients, and their personal support networks to co-produce personalised plans.
Supporting colleagues from other agencies where appropriate, including providing rapid response to crisis.
Regularly reviewing cases and measuring outcomes, identifying, and overcoming triggers/crisis points that may lead to clients disengaging or resisting help.
Recording and maintaining progression, ensuring clients are aware of their support and safety plans.
Reducing involvement as clients gain sustained independence and planning safe exits from service.

Qualifications:

Full Driving Licence and your own vehicle

Experience:

Prior experience or knowledge of substance use services would be an advantage
2+ years working within a substance misuse type role.

Skills & Abilities:

Transferable skills such as: managing and prioritising workload, delivering interventions, care planning and risk management.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
The ability to motivate yourself and others.
A passion for helping others.

Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.

***Qualification details and any other experience/skills relevant to the role to help support your application (and help us to help you!) – please give full details within your CV document.

Unless the DBS requirement stated above is for a Basic Disclosure, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service.

Clients are generally looking for candidates who are local to, or who can commute easily to the place of work. It will help your application if your CV states, in broad terms, where you reside – there is no need for a full address.

Please feel free to apply to us directly via jobs@tclrec.com by quoting the job reference and exact job title.

To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would ask that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, not as a PDF.

If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension, you will be working at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than umbrella pay terms. We do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.

Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, unfortunately we cannot respond to all applications. If you have not heard from us within 3 working days please assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles.

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Job Ref: Middlesbrough MID1031579

Anticipated Length of Assignment: Unless otherwise stated (we do carry the occasional permanent vacancy) all of our roles are technically temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent.

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