Recovery Coach

You will also help to 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.

ESSENTIAL

Education & Experience

An understanding/experience of substance misuse issues/offending specifically recovery as a concept.

An understanding of addiction and the impact on the family to support meaningful community engagement outside of structured treatment/criminal justice settings.

An understanding/experience of recovery and wellbeing as a concept, as well as the range of pathways available in the community and support individuals to find their own pathway.

The confidence, enthusiasm, and articulation to clearly explain and promote the services provided by Emerging Futures CIC and CGL to the wider general public and other agencies.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

Ability to maintain professional boundaries and work effectively within a team and with other professional from partnership agencies.

A clear understanding of confidentiality.

Ability to respond to the demands of the post and keep calm under pressure.

Ability to maintain your own recovery if applicable

Attributes & Strengths

Able to demonstrate that your personal ethos and work ethic mirrors the values of EF.

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.

*Please note this role takes place in Macclesfield