Job Opportunity
Special Terms: 35 hours / week ; Fixed-term until April 2027Salary: £29,044 per annumAccountable for: Recovery Officers and Volunteers
LGBT Foundation is an impactful, vibrant charity with a wide portfolio of well-established services and rapidly developing new initiatives aimed at meeting the needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans people.
LGBT Foundation is looking for a Recovery Coordinator, to join the Recovery Programme. As an organisation we have been working in partnership with mainstream drug and alcohol services for more than 9 years to support access to structured treatment and to offer group spaces and 121 support for LGBT people making changes around drug & alcohol use. This role will support the continued development of an LGBT specific service as a choice for LGBT people in Manchester. The role will be responsible for:
- Partnership work with Change Grow Live in Manchester:Working with, stakeholders, commissioners, community resources and partners in Manchester to establish an LGBT Foundation Recovery Programme and an LGBT recovery community.
- Supporting individuals:Provision of outreach work to ensure referrals into the service. Triage and assessment, brief intervention work and extended brief interventions to support individuals making changes around drug and alcohol use.
- Groups, Training and Learning Opportunities:Providing regular training and shadowing opportunities to all individuals delivering within this service, ensuring knowledge and skills are prioritised and developing and facilitating peer support groups.
- Line management and support of sessional workers and volunteers:Providing one to one support, team meetings, and operational support to all delivering the service.
We are taking positive action to encourage applications from people of colour (PoC) and other racially minoritised communities, trans*, non-binary, and/or older people (aged 50+), to improve the representation of colleagues from these communities in our staff team.
*Trans is an umbrella & inclusive term used to describe people whose gender identity differs in some way from that which they were assigned at birth; including non-binary people, cross-dressers, and those who partially or incompletely identify with their sex assigned at birth.
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