Senior Group Facilitator in Uxbridge inUxbridge PUBLISHED THU 30 JAN 2025 Jump to job information section

The Senior Group Facilitator is a fast paced, highly rewarding, service user facing role integral to the smooth running and holistic offer of care and treatment to service users using the ARCH Hillingdon service.

You will need to be creative and possess determination to continually improve and adapt the offers of therapeutic, recovery and skill-based groups in order to promote recovery and independence amongst our service users.

We are looking for someone who has:

Good communication skills: verbal and written, English to GCSE or equivalent

Experience in facilitating groups and individuals' activities

Experience of working in a multi-cultural environment

Be able to demonstrate an understanding of the needs of service users with substance use issues.

Experience of working in substance use and/or mental health settings is an advantage Do you have passion for substance use care?

Do you have creative skills which you can use to engage service users into groups?

If so, there is an exciting opportunity for you to join our team as the Senior Group Facilitator to work alongside the Recovery Day Programme (RDP) team, Nurses, Recovery Practitioners, Peer Support Workers and Consultant Psychiatrist at ARCH Hillingdon. You will work closely with the Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) in leading on the facilitation of service user centred activities.

Communication and clinical responsibilities. The post holder will be responsible for the development and maintenance of facilitating groups in the context of a drug and alcohol substance misuse service. The post holder will also be responsible for completing some independent clinical work, such as, initial assessments. Please see job description for further details.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

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The Senior Group Facilitator is a fast paced, highly rewarding, service user facing role integral to the smooth running and holistic offer of care and treatment to service users using the ARCH Hillingdon service.

You will need to be creative and possess determination to continually improve and adapt the offers of therapeutic, recovery and skill-based groups in order to promote recovery and independence amongst our service users.