Recovery Coordinator Apprentice
Change Grow Live - The Quarter - Walsall
Unit 4, The Quarter (WS1 1QU)
Closes in 11 days (Monday 3 November 2025)
Posted on 16 October 2025
Contents
Summary
An exciting Apprenticeship opportunity has arisen within CGL Walsall for you to join a dynamic team committed to providing intensive key work to families who have drug and/or alcohol misuse issues. You will be very much a part of the team and will offer, planning and running our group work programmes, case management and working with our
- Wage
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£15,038 a year
- Training course
- Adult care worker (level 2)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday, 09:00 - 17:00
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Monday 24 November 2025
- 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
At Change Grow Live Walsall, as a Recovery Coordinator Apprentice, you will be working towards the Adult Care Level 2 apprenticeship, over the duration of 18 months, alongside your daily roles and responsibilities.
Your roles and responsiblities will include:
- Supporting service users from point of entry into the service and through their treatment/recovery journey
- Providing screening, assessment, and recovery planning and onward referral
- Reducing drug and alcohol related harm to service users and the wider community
- Promoting carer, service user and community involvement
- Providing advocacy for access to partnership services
- Working with service users to support social (re)integration, enabling them to lead meaningful and purposeful lives: promoting recovery, resilience, peer support and self determination
- Provide high quality support and interventions to families with a multi-disciplinary Safeguarding team
- To reduce substance misuse related harm to individuals and their children
- 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
- Work in partnership with other agencies and carry out joint key working to enable effective engagement and movement from semi structured psychosocial interventions to promote recovery
Change Grow Live offer some fantastic benefits which include:
- Health Checks
- Help paying for childcare
- Cycle to work scheme
- Food intolerance and allergy testing
- Gym flex
- Life insurance
- Will Writing Service
- Employee assistance programme
Please note that before employment can commence an enhanced DBS check will need to be carried out.
Where you'll work
Unit 4, The Quarter
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
Adult Care Worker Apprenticeship Level 2 including Functional Skills in maths and English
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
Other in:
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Team Working
- Organisation Skills
Other requirements
The key dates provided should be used as a guide only, should the right candidate be found the position will close.
About this employer
CGL is a health and social care charity working with individuals, families and communities across England and Wales that are affected by drugs, alcohol, crime, homelessness, domestic abuse, and antisocial behaviour. Their projects, delivered in communities and prisons, encourage and empower people to regain control of their lives and motivate them to tackle their problems.
After this apprenticeship
- Ongoing training and development
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The contact for this apprenticeship is:
LIFETIME TRAINING GROUP LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000346951.
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Closes in 11 days (Monday 3 November 2025)
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