Recovery Housing Coordinator (Horsham)

About Us

Established 30 years ago, Turning Tides is a multifunctional, complex needs homelessness charity. Our mission is to end local homelessness.

We have gone from supporting a handful of people in the coastal town of Worthing to providing a range of services to over 1,700 people in Worthing, Adur, Littlehampton, Horsham and Mid Sussex. We have over 10,000 supporters, 300 volunteers and 160 staff members to date.

We’re currently looking for a Recovery Housing Coordinator who has a strong background in working with people who are in recovery within a residential setting. Primarily based in Horsham, however the role links in closely with our residential and outreach teams in Horsham and Mid Sussex, to ensure that effective pathways are developed for those accommodated in the service.

The Benefits

• Flexible working, part time hours
• Play an important role within a community-led organisation
• Stakeholder pension scheme
• Health care plan
• 24/7 Support provider with wellbeing, advice and money saving resources
• Local discounts including gym membership
• Up to 25 days’ holiday, increasing with service

The Role

This role will involve providing personalised support through individually negotiated and agreed support plans for clients, who require stable secure accommodation, in order to continue an abstinence based individual recovery journey. The support provided to clients within this service is psychologically informed and comes from a strengths-based approach.

About You

To join us as our Recovery Housing Coordinator, in addition to having experience in supporting vulnerable people within a recovery or substance misuse setting, will need:

• Good knowledge of housing, homelessness issues and welfare benefits
• Extensive knowledge of alcohol, drugs, addiction and relapse management
• Basic understanding of mental health and personality disorders
• Ability to motivate and inspire clients to make positive life changes
• Confident in working alone and in a team, taking initiative and responsibility
• Ability to manage difficult/ challenging behaviour using assertiveness and de-escalation  techniques
• Good computer literacy skills, including the basic use of Excel

Applications

The closing date for applications is Thursday 26th May. Interviews are to be held on a date to be confirmed.
No agencies please.

A full job description and person specification along with an application form are available to download from our website.

To apply, please ensure you complete an application form, including your responses to the shortlisting criteria (in Person Specification), along with a completed Equal Opportunities Questionnaire.

You can either fill out these forms online or download them from the right and send to: recruitment@turning-tides.org.uk. Please note we do not accept CV’s.

Turning Tides requires all staff and volunteers to be committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults. Successful applicants (dependent on role) are required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure via the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

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Please note that we will only contact the candidates that have been shortlisted for interview. If you have not heard from us within 3 weeks please assume you have been unsuccessful this time.

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