Recovery Champion
Change Grow Live
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Job summary
Change Grow Live is seeking an Outreach Recovery Champion in Reading to support people in taking first steps toward recovery and building healthier, safer lives. The role involves working flexibly across sites, including evenings and weekends, with a 37.5 hour week on a 6-month fixed-term contract.
You will deliver one-to-one interventions, recovery coaching and group support, while engaging rough sleepers or those at risk of homelessness to move toward settled accommodation.
Responsibilities
- Supporting people to build and sustain recovery capital and achieve long-term recovery
- Delivering one-to-one interventions, recovery coaching and group-based support
- Engaging people who are rough sleeping or at risk of homelessness and supporting them towards settled accommodation
- Promoting visible recovery and strengthening links with mutual aid and recovery communities
- Working alongside partner organisations to create integrated pathways of support
- Encouraging service user involvement and ensuring people's voices influence service delivery
- Acting as a positive role model, demonstrating that recovery and positive change are possible
- The role involves community outreach, partnership working and occasional evening or weekend working to meet the needs of the people we support.
Job description
Recovery is powerful.
Not because it changes what happened in the past, but because it creates possibilities for what comes next.
At Change Grow Live, we know that some of the most inspiring recovery journeys are led by people who have walked the path themselves. People who understand the challenges, recognise the barriers and can show others that change is possible.
We're looking for an Outreach Recovery Champion to join our Reading service, helping people take their first steps towards recovery and supporting them to build lives that are healthier, safer and more fulfilling.
The post-holder will work with service users initiating, building, and utilising recovery capital to move into long term sustained recovery. This will be achieved by working with service users, supporting, and delivering pods or one to one intervention as required.
The post-holder will be required to work flexibly across all sites within an agreed number of hours to maintain the most appropriate level of service provision. This will include evening and weekend working.
Location: ReadingContract: 6 Month Fixed Term ContractHours: 37.5 per week
Full-time hours at Change Grow Live are 37.5 hours per week. For part-time roles, salary and payments will be pro rata based on contracted hours.
- Supporting people to build and sustain recovery capital and achieve long-term recovery
- Delivering one-to-one interventions, recovery coaching and group-based support
- Engaging people who are rough sleeping or at risk of homelessness and supporting them towards settled accommodation
- Promoting visible recovery and strengthening links with mutual aid and recovery communities
- Working alongside partner organisations to create integrated pathways of support
- Encouraging service user involvement and ensuring people's voices influence service delivery
- Acting as a positive role model, demonstrating that recovery and positive change are possible
The role involves community outreach, partnership working and occasional evening or weekend working to meet the needs of the people we support.
Everything we do starts with people.
Guided by our values of Be Open, Be Compassionate and Be Bold, we work together to create services that are built on evidence, rooted in communities and focused on helping people achieve lasting change.
You’ll join a team that values lived experience, invests in development and genuinely believes in the power of recovery.
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, rising to 30 days with service
- A paid weekly Wellness Hour, Wellness Hub and Employee Assistance Programme
- Contributory pension scheme
- Employee benefits and discount platform
- Learning, training and development opportunities
- Supportive supervision and ongoing coaching
- Career progression opportunities across a national organisation
Please note: This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Applicants must already have the right to work in the UK at the time of application. For applicants with time-limited visas, unfortunately, we are unable to support new visa applications or extensions.
This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at an enhanced level.
CGL SPOT (20) (£26,296.03 - £26,296.03)
N/A - Outside London Weighting Area
16/10/2026
9/10/2026
sam pillinger | sam.pillinger@cgl.org.uk | 07507839030
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