Recovery Worker - Duty (Ref: 0025ZA)

TN United Kingdom; Shrewsbury; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading charity as a Recovery Worker in Shrewsbury, providing high-quality recovery care to clients facing drug, alcohol, and mental health challenges. This frontline role involves creating treatment plans, managing caseloads, and ensuring respectful client interactions. Ideal candidates are compassionate, organized, and have experience in health or social care settings.

Benefits

28 days annual leave, plus bank holidays

Extra day off for your birthday

Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption leave

2 days paid volunteer leave per year

Access to a Blue Light Card

Flexible working opportunities

Refer a Friend scheme with £500 bonus

Qualifications

• Experience in health, social care, or related setting.
• Ability to build and maintain effective relationships.
• Good oral and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Support clients to identify their goals and create treatment plans.
• Manage an active caseload and provide continuity of care.
• Work collaboratively as part of a team.

Skills

Communication

Teamwork

Resilience

Education

ONC/NVQ level 3

Job description

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Recovery Worker - Duty (Ref: 0025ZA), Shrewsbury

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Client:

We Are With You

Location:

Shrewsbury, United Kingdom

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Other

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Posted:

19.05.2025

Expiry Date:

03.07.2025

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About the Role

All applicants must submit a CV along with a cover letter explaining why they should be considered for this role. Applications will not be accepted without a cover letter.

Please note: This role may close earlier than the stated deadline if we receive a high volume of applications, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

Join our team as Recovery Worker (Duty Cover) in Shrewsbury.

Are you a compassionate and motivated individual who wants to change people’s lives? Our team in Shrewsbury is looking for a Recovery Worker to join them in providing high-quality recovery care to a diverse client group. If you are enthusiastic, creative, and passionate about helping others, we’d love to hear from you.

As a leading charity supporting people with drug, alcohol, and mental health challenges, we operate over 80 services across England and Scotland, providing free and confidential support to more than 100,000 people each year. Find out more about us here.

About the role

Our Recovery Workers play a vital role in supporting clients to identify their goals, ambitions, and passions. You’ll work with them to create the best treatment plan for their needs and to guide them on their path to recovery.

This is a frontline role at WithYou, where you will provide continuity of care through effective partnership working, care coordination, key work responsibilities, and intervention delivery. You will manage an active caseload, connecting quickly with clients and ensuring they’re always treated with respect and dignity.

What we’re looking for

We’re looking for a compassionate and motivated individual, with an exceptional ability to build meaningful relationships. You will have demonstrable experience working within the health, social care, criminal justice, or other specialist setting, or a clear motivation for wanting to work in the drug and alcohol sector. A successful track record of providing efficient and reliable customer service is essential.

You will be highly organised, have excellent communication skills, and be able to manage your time effectively. You will work collaboratively as part of a team to ensure a high-quality service is maintained. Above all, we are looking for someone who is passionate about what we do and has a positive and engaging approach to our clients and key stakeholders.

To be successful in this role, you will:

• have attained ONC/NVQ level 3 or be willing to achieve this within 12 months
• have some experience of working in a health, social care or related setting
• have the ability to build and maintain effective relationships with clients and colleagues alike
• be able to work effectively in a team, supporting others when needed
• be resilient under pressure and able to prioritise your work
• have good oral and written communication skills
• be comfortable using IT and digital media
• be organised and able to manage your time effectively
• able to be flexible with your working hours on occasion
• be happy to support other WithYou locations when needed
• have a full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle

A full job description and person specification are available on request by emailing [emailprotected].

As part of this role, you will be required to work on a Saturday between the hours of 9 am - 5 pm on a rotational basis. Hours worked during this time will be toiled between Monday - Friday, 9 am - 5 pm.

About Company

WithYou provides free and confidential support, without judgement, to more than 100,000 people every year experiencing challenges with drugs, alcohol, and mental health across England and Scotland.

Our name reflects who we are – a positive place where people can progress, connect with others, and get friendly, expert help in a way that’s right for them.

Our staff team changes lives. If you’re passionate about helping people get the support they need for issues with drugs, alcohol, and mental health, we’d love to hear from you.

DE&I

As an organisation, we continue to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports, and celebrates the diverse voices and experiences of our staff. We know that representing the communities we serve is key to meeting our goals of radically improving people's lives. We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring, and we encourage people from underrepresented communities and backgrounds to apply, including people with lived experience, people with disabilities, people from racialized communities, LGBTQ+ people, people of all ages, and armed forces veterans.

As part of our commitment to the Armed Forces Covenant, we provide a guaranteed interview scheme for candidates that are veterans and meet all the essential criteria for a role.

WithYou is also a Disability Confident Employer, and we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for candidates with a disability and meet all the essential criteria for a role.

If you have a disability, a learning difficulty such as dyslexia, or a medical condition which you believe may affect your performance during any aspect of our selection process, we’ll be happy to make reasonable adjustments to enable you to perform at your best.

• 28 days annual leave, plus bank holidays
• An extra day off for your birthday or a special occasion of your choice
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption leave
• 2 days paid volunteer leave per year
• Auto-enrollment into We Are With You’s pension scheme
• Access to a Blue Light Card - giving you great savings on big high-street and online brands
• Flexible working opportunities and access to a range of services and resources to support your wellbeing
• We have an excellent Refer a Friend scheme which offers you a £500 bonus for any recommendations, any role! Our scheme allows you to recommend your friends and family to work with us and earn a £500 bonus payment for every successful referral you make. Please note, the Refer a Friend scheme is only applicable if your recommended friend completes their 6 months probation period