Apprentice Recovery Worker
CHANGE, GROW, LIVE
Walsall (WS1 1QU)
Closes in 12 days (Sunday 4 January 2026)
Posted on 23 December 2025
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Summary
During your apprenticeship, you will be working towards the Level 2 Adult Care qualification over the duration of 15 months.
- Wage
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£15,038 a year
- Training course
- Adult care worker (level 2)
- Hours
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Exact shifts to be confirmed.
38 hours a week
- Start date
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Sunday 18 January 2026
- Duration
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1 year 3 months
- Positions available
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1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
- Supporting the recovery team in engaging with people experiencing substance use challenges, providing tailored advice, support, and recovery-focused interventions to meet their needs.
- Building therapeutic relationships and delivering personalised care plans with training and support.
- Work closely with local Social Services Teams and Family Intervention Projects.
- Promote family members involvement to improve outcomes for children.
- Present cases at The Beacon Clinical meetings for Multi-disciplinary discussion where a change in circumstances/behaviour potentially changes the service users risk profile.
- Review ongoing care and treatment liaising closely with the full range of specialist works within the multi-disciplinary team both within The Beacon and the Family Safeguarding Team.
- Learning to develop and access ‘recovery resources,’ as well as peer and mutual support groups, to help individuals build their own recovery strategies…and much more!
Where you'll work
Unit 4 the Quarter
Walsall
WS1 1QU
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
LIFETIME TRAINING GROUP LIMITED
Training course
Adult care worker (level 2)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Support individuals they are working with according to their personal care/support plan
- Ask for help from an appropriate person when not confident or skilled in any aspect of their role
- Provide individuals with information to enable them to have a choice about the way they are supported
- Encourage individuals to participate in the way their care and support is delivered
- Ensure the individual knows what they are agreeing to regarding the way in which they are supported
- Contribute to the on-going development of care/support plans for the individual they support
- Support individuals with cognitive, physical or sensory impairments
- Ensure dignity is at the centre of all work with the individuals they support, their families, carers and advocates
- Demonstrate all work is person centred, accommodating the individual’s needs, wishes and preferences
- Demonstrate empathy (understanding and compassion) for individuals they support
- Demonstrate courage in supporting people in ways that may challenge their personal/cultural beliefs
- Speak clearly and exhibit positive non-verbal communication to individuals, families, carers and advocates
- Use the preferred methods of communication of the individual they support according to their language, culture, sensory needs and their wishes
- Identify and take steps to reduce environmental barriers to communication
- Demonstrate they can check for understanding
- Write clearly and concisely in records and reports
- Keep information safe and confidential according to agreed ways of working
- Recognise potential signs of different forms of abuse
- Respond to concerns of abuse according to agreed ways of working
- Recognise, report and challenge unsafe practices
- Promote the health and wellbeing of the individual they support
- Move people and objects safely
- Demonstrate how to reduce the spread of infection, including use of best practice in hand hygiene
- Demonstrate the promotion of healthy eating and wellbeing by ensuring individuals have access to fluids, food and nutrition
- Demonstrate how to keep people, buildings and themselves safe and secure
- Carry out fire safety procedures when required
- Use risk assessments to support individuals safely
- Recognise symptoms of cognitive impairment, e.g. Dementia, learning disabilities and mental health
- Monitor and report changes in health and wellbeing for individuals they support
- Reflect on your own work practices
- Demonstrate the development of their own skills and knowledge, including core skills in writing, numbers and information technology
- Demonstrate their contribution to their development plan
- Demonstrate ability to work in partnership with others to support the individual
- Identify sources of support when conflicts arise with other people or organisations
- Demonstrate they can work within safe, clear professional boundaries
- Show they can access and apply additional skills required to perform the specific job role competently
Training schedule
During your apprenticeship, you will be working towards the Level 2 Adult Care qualification over the duration of 15 months.
Requirements
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Problem solving skills
- Team working
Other requirements
This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at an enhanced level.
About this employer
At Change Grow Live, we’re a charity dedicated to empowering individuals and creating lasting positive change in their lives. Guided by the values Be Open, Be Compassionate, and Be Bold, our team works to support people in changing the direction of their lives, growing as individuals, and living life to its fullest potential.
Company benefits
- 25 days of holiday increasing annually for first five years.
- A contributory pension scheme.
- Access to a wide range of benefits, including discounts on shopping.
- Opportunities for training, career development, and progression.
After this apprenticeship
Opportunities for training, career development, and progression.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
LIFETIME TRAINING GROUP LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000006442.
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Closes in 12 days (Sunday 4 January 2026)
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