Harm Reduction Senior Practitioner

Wdp; London Borough of Harrow; On-site; GBP 33,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking organization as a Harm Reduction Senior Practitioner in Harrow, where you will lead impactful health initiatives. This role involves coordinating partnerships to promote harm reduction and health across the borough, managing a team, and engaging with the community to enhance service accessibility. If you are passionate about making a difference in public health and have a solid background in substance misuse, this is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a well-regarded service committed to recovery and well-being.

Benefits

30 days annual leave

Health and wellbeing initiatives

Financial perks

Development opportunities

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of harm reduction and health promotion.
• Experience in managing teams and developing community partnerships.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate partnerships to reduce alcohol-related harm and promote health.
• Line manage a team delivering health-oriented interventions.

Skills

Harm Reduction Strategies

Health Promotion

Team Management

Partnership Development

Substance Misuse Knowledge

Education

Relevant Health or Social Care Qualification

Job description

Job Reference JOB0171

Location: Harrow

Salary: £33,575 - £34,052 per annum, including London Weighting where appropriate

Vacancy Type: Fixed Term/Full Time

Working Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Application Deadline: Sunday, May 18, 2025

Job Summary

Excited to lead change? Join our thriving team in Harrow as a Harm Reduction Senior Practitioner and drive impactful health initiatives across the borough!

The Role

This is an exciting opportunity to join a thriving service and help build an ever larger network of partnerships to highlight harm reduction and health promotion across the borough.

You will co-ordinate across these partnerships focusing on key areas such as reducing alcohol related harm, safer injecting practices, and smoking cessation; with good knowledge on each of these areas.

You will work from the service site and, at times, across the local community, undertaking a wide range of promotion and development of partnerships to make our service more accessible.

The successful applicant will line manage a team delivering a variety of health-oriented interventions, encouraging development and learning both within the team and also our community partners.

The Service

Via Harrow is a fully integrated substance misuse service, providing clinical and psychosocial interventions from a main treatment hub in Harrow and from a range of satellite services in the borough. The team actively promotes recovery and works with individuals that are directly and indirectly affected by substance misuse, working with the local community to improve the health, wellbeing, and functioning of Harrow residents, irrespective of circumstance.

This service is an established Community Integrated service that is well performing and highly functioning; it is CQC registered to provide a range of clinical interventions including BBV & health interventions, OST, and community detox alongside a comprehensive psychosocial and recovery focused model.

Location

Harrow Recovery Centre is based at 97 Pinner Road, HA1 4ET, close to Harrow-on-the-Hill tube station.

This is a fixed term vacancy until 31 March 2026.

Benefits

To see the generous range of benefits we offer at Via including 30 days annual leave for all new starters, our health and wellbeing initiatives, financial perks, and development opportunities – visit our Benefits Package.

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Via, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Contact Information

For an informal chat about the role please contact Allen Quine, Service Manager via [e-mail] or 07973 459001.

The closing date for applications is Sunday 18 May at midnight.

All our applications are sifted by humans. Please send us applications that reflect your own knowledge, experience, and values and not applications that have been generated by artificial intelligence (AI).

We accept applications via this link using our short application form and your CV. For guidance on how to complete the application visit this link. Please submit your application as soon as possible as we may close adverts at any time if we receive a sufficient number of applications.

Via welcomes enquiries from everyone, and we value diversity in our workplace. Our commitment to promoting diversity and developing a workplace environment where all staff are treated with dignity and respect is central to our recruitment process.

We’re a Disability Confident Employer and are committed to the employment and career development of disabled people. We offer an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for our jobs; please confirm in the personal statement part of our application form that you are applying under this scheme.

Appointment to all our posts is subject to satisfactory completion of our safeguarding checks including DBS, and we follow safer recruiting principles.

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