Complex Lives Recovery Navigator

Forward Leeds; Weymouth; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading organization in England is looking for a Complex Lives Recovery Navigator to empower individuals facing multiple challenges, including homelessness. Based in Weymouth, you will work within a multi-agency team to provide tailored support to vulnerable people, helping to enhance their health and wellbeing through innovative recovery strategies.

Benefits

Generous annual leave (27 days plus bank holidays)

Enhanced occupational sick pay

Pension scheme with employer contribution

Free training courses

Flexible working policies

Employee Assistance Programme

Qualifications

• Experience with harm reduction and recovery principles.
• Ability to work in a multi-agency environment.
• Strong understanding of substance misuse and related interventions.

Responsibilities

• Provide coordinated support to vulnerable individuals facing multiple exclusions.
• Engage with service users in their living environment to promote recovery solutions.
• Advocate for equitable access to necessary services.

Skills

Resilience

Compassion

Communication

Advocacy

Education

Relevant experience in social work or community support

Job description

Job Details: Complex Lives Recovery Navigator

Waythrough launched in October 2024 following the merger of Humankind and Richmond Fellowship. Our vision is to break down the barriers that stop people getting the support they need to live a life they value. We tackle poverty and disadvantage in communities, through mental health, drug and alcohol, housing and related support.

We have almost 200 services around England – and nearly 3,500 amazing staff and volunteers who run them. Every year our services support around 125,000 people.

Bringing together two big organisations is not a small task and it’ll take a while to fully integrate our systems, processes and approaches. That’s why you will notice the jobs here are still branded ‘Humankind’. Next year we’ll be fully integrating our recruitment systems but for now they are separate.

Location Weymouth Coffee Tavern, Weymouth, DT4 8JH

Location Region

Location Region Dorset

Location City

Location City Weymouth

Location Postal Code

Location Postal Code DT4 8JH

Interview Date

Interview Date 02 Jul 2025

Complex Lives Recovery Navigator
Location: Dorset (excluding Bournemouth, Christchurch, and Poole)
Contract: Fixed Term – Full Time

Are you passionate about empowering people experiencing multiple exclusion and homelessness? Do you have the resilience and compassion to work with those facing complex life challenges? If so, we want to hear from you.

We're seeking a Complex Lives Recovery Navigator to join our dedicated multi-agency team in Dorset until 31stMarch 2026. This role is part of an innovative, county-wide project designed to bring intensive, co-created recovery solutions to some of the most vulnerable individuals in our community.

About the role
You will work with the Dorset Rough Sleeping Drug and Alcohol team and local partners to provide coordinated support to people who experience multiple exclusion and homelessness. You and your colleagues will be inspiring and motivating positive change for the most vulnerable in our County. By working diligently and proactively, as part of an integrated multi-agency team, you will apply intensive and co-created recovery solutions, enabling health & well-being improvements that are meaningful and sustainable.

You will provide substance misuse-specific knowledge and interventions, bringing the right treatment to people with complex lives, where they are. You will be ensuring that ample treatment intensity is provided, at the appropriate pace and be able to think ahead making sure that doors are opened for enhanced recovery and mutually agreed ‘successful outcomes’ are achieved.

Working to a Strength-Based Approach focusing on individuals and community assets, you will work alongside other frontline practitioners. Where services essential to the progress of service users' treatment journey, are less accessible, you will be assertively advocating for equitable entry into those existing services through all appropriate channels.

You will be resourceful, able to articulate yourself appropriately on behalf of your service users and resilient to change and challenges. If you are the successful candidate, you will be part of an exciting project that will bring immediate and new opportunities for recovery and health improvement to those most marginalised. To support this, alongside line management and multi-disciplinary clinical meetings, you will be provided with regular psychologist-led reflective practice and be invited to inform the project learning and evaluation group.

Service Provision:

• Early and assertive engagement meetings with service users where they are living.
• Excellent boundaries and ability to apply ‘co-production’ principles to any stage of treatment/recovery.
• Responsible for managing dynamic risk and personal safety in a wide range of environments.
• Robust understanding of both harm reduction and recovery principles and practice
• Able to think creatively about treatment options, changes and transitions in the context of a multi-disciplinary and agency approach.
• Access supervision, group supervision and learning opportunities; being able to identify professional growth areas and support colleagues with their ongoing professional development.
• Engage in task and finish groups as appropriate to support evaluation and sustainability plan of the project.
• Encourage service users to become involved in the project and in service user forums in Dorset that will enhance their experience and increase a sense of belonging.
• Broker community assets and resources that will strengthen recovery, increase health and wellbeing and expand scope of opportunities for our service users.

Please note this role covers the county of Dorset (except Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole) and business mileage will be reimbursed as per Waythrough policy

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Who are we…
Waythrough (formerly Humankind) launched in October 2024 following the merger of Humankind and Richmond Fellowship. Our vision is to break down the barriers that stop people getting the support they need to live a life they value. We tackle poverty and disadvantage in communities, through mental health, drug and alcohol, housing and related support.
We have almost 200 services around England – and nearly 3,500 amazing staff and volunteers who run them. Every year our services support around 125,000 people.
Bringing together two big organisations is not a small task and it’ll take a while to fully integrate our systems, processes and approaches. That’s why you will notice the jobs here are still branded ‘Humankind’. Next year we’ll be fully integrating our recruitment systems but for now they are separate.
Thanks for bearing with us – and don’t forget to check out the Waythrough (formerly Humankind) jobs on the Richmond Fellowship and Aquarius job site https://recoveryfocus.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/Recovery_Focus_Careers .

What can Waythrough (formerly Humankind) offer you… ️ Generous annual leave entitlement (27 days, plus bank holidays, increasing to 32 after 1 years’ service) Annual leave purchase scheme Enhanced occupational sick pay % Enhanced employer contribution to your workplace pension Death in service benefit ️ Free Will writing Eyecare vouchers ️ Blue light card discount Fantastic learning and development opportunities, including free training courses Work-life balance- flexible working and family friendly policies ️ Happy, Healthy You! – our wellbeing offers for our workforce Employee Assist Programme and WaythroughSupport Networks
Waythrough (formerly Humankind) is an equal opportunities employer

We value unique perspectives and experiences that everyone can bring, and fully understand the strength in diversity and inclusion. We encourage applications from all backgrounds, regardless of race, gender, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, or disability. If you have a genuine passion for working for us, we want to hear for you. We also welcome applications from people with lived experience with substance use. If you require support with your application, please contact the Recruitment Team at [e-mail]

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DBS Requirement

DBS Requirement Enhanced Adult Barred

Does role require Police/Prison vetting? Both

Driving licence required for role?

Driving licence required for role? Yes

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