Caniad Team Leader

Caniad Team Leader

Adferiad Recovery delivers a new, flexible, and co-ordinated response to the exceptional circumstances faced by people with co-occurring mental health and substance misuse conditions and related issues. We harness the talents and experience of our founding and long-established leading Welsh Charities CAIS, Hafal, and WCADA in their fields, enabling our projects to meet the needs of our most vulnerable with a single, unified, and comprehensive approach.

Hours: 37.5 hrs per week (Monday – Friday, occasional evening and weekend availability)

Salary: £23,365.24 per annum

Holidays: 25 days per year plus 8 public holidays (pro rata)

Based at: Wrexham/Flintshire, covering North Wales region.

Responsible to: Service Manager

Job Purpose:

Caniad is a North Wales substance misuse and mental health service user and carer involvement project, hosted by Adferiad. Caniad works with people with lived experience of accessing mental health and/or substance misuse services, the health board, and the Area Planning Board to plan, develop and improve mental health and substance misuse services.

The Team Leader will support the Service Manager by ensuring all Caniad Coordinators’ duties are complete and accurate, as well as supporting the delivery of the Caniad service. The Team Leader will work to support and work as part of a team to facilitate involvement opportunities for a range of people who have recent experience of substance misuse and/or mental health services.

The project will identify involvement opportunities for service users and carers, facilitate and attendance at meetings and events, recruit new Caniad Involvers (clients), support provision of relevant training and IT support, reimburse expenses and administer the project’s time banking scheme.

Full driving licence and access to a vehicle for work purposes is essential for this role.

Adferiad Recovery welcomes applications from everyone with the right to work in the UK, and values diversity in the workplace.

All employees are required to act inclusively to encourage, promote, and cultivate our values, (such as rights affirming and cultural diversity).

Working towards becoming a Rights Affirming organisation, we actively encourage applications from people where the Person Specification calls for a particular qualification or experience, we will consider waiving these requirements if an applicant who could not achieve them because of a disability can demonstrate he/she would be capable of performing well in the job and fulfils the criteria in other respects.

We are a living wage employer.

FOR MORE INFORMATION, A FULL PERSON SPECIFICATION AND HOW TO APPLY, PLEASE GO TO OUR WEBSITE: https://adferiadrecovery.peoplehr.net/Pages/JobBoard/Opening.aspx?v=514951f4-ab12-4988-82c2-62dfc2a8501e

If you have difficulty accessing this information or would like it in a different format, please contact our recruitment team at recruitment@adferiad.org

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: £23,365.24 per year

Benefits:

• Additional leave
• Company events
• Company pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Discounted or free food
• Financial planning services
• Health & wellbeing programme
• Life insurance
• Referral programme
• Sick pay
• Store discount

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday
• Weekend availability

Licence/Certification:

• Driving Licence and access to a vehicle for work purposes (required)
• NVQ Level 3 in Care Management OR Health & Social Care (preferred)

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: AC174