Recovery Connectors (various roles) – Nottingham Recovery Network

TimeOut Gambling Project; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 5,400 - 8,900; Part time

Job summary

Double Impact is seeking Recovery Connectors to join the Nottingham Recovery Network in Nottingham City. This is a 12-month fixed term contract based on 13.5 hours per week.

You will be in long-term recovery and support others to achieve abstinence, guiding service users through their recovery journeys alongside managers, team leaders and peer mentors. You will help them navigate treatment pathways and maintain motivation.

Qualifications

• DI Mentoring Training is preferred.
• Reliable and able to work with basic IT packages.

Responsibilities

• Support service users to take the recovery journey and complete treatment.
• Build recovery capital and help navigate treatment journeys with peers and managers.
• Provide one-to-one mentoring and signpost to mutual aid, education, volunteering and employment opportunities.
• Promote recovery and possibility thinking to motivate other service users.
• Uphold Double Impact values at all times and bring personal lived experience to the role.

Job description

The Nottingham Recovery Network comprises of Framework Housing Association, Double Impact and Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. The service is publicly funded and has been established to support people who misuse drugs and alcohol. We provide a single point of advice, support and treatment for anyone in Nottingham City who wishes to change their relationship with alcohol or drugs

Recovery Connectors – Nottingham Recovery Network

Contract Type: 12-month Fixed Term Contract

Location: Nottingham City (Nottingham Recovery Network)

Hours: 13.5 hours

Salary: £8922.42 based on 13.5 hours per week

Double Impact is a registered charity and not for profit organisation, established in 1998. We believe that with the right support everybody can recover and that in recovery anything is possible.

We are looking for Recovery Connectors to join the team. To be eligible for this role you will be in long-term Recovery and be passionate about supporting others to achieve abstinence and sustainable change for the future.

As a Double Impact Recovery Connector, you will understand the road to successful long-term recovery from drug or alcohol use and the challenges faced in the journey to get you there. You will understand because you will have been through it yourself, visible proof that with the right support and help, sustained long term recovery is possible.

You will work closely with team managers, team leaders, colleagues and peer mentors, supporting service users to take the recovery journey, building their recovery capital and helping them to navigate their treatment journeys, with the aim that service users are enabled to successfully complete treatment and sustain long term recovery.

You will help us to build a culture of individual aspiration, spreading the messages amongst service users that recovery is worth aspiring to, motivating others starting on their journey by seeing the progress made by their peers.

The Recovery Connector post will provide the opportunity to build, develop skills and knowledge of working in the substance use field, while actively championing recovery, using your own skills and experiences to bring added value to the role.

Candidates will have ideally completed the DI Mentoring Training, be reliable and have basic IT Skills and familiarity with basic IT packages. Successful candidate will uphold the values of Double Impact at all times, championing recovery and possibility thinking – a true motivator to other service users.

Pathways

The Academy

The Academy aim to support individual and collective recovery through learning, training, mentoring and volunteering, within a welcoming and supportive environment.

The Academy is a recovery community where everyone can feel like they belong. It is a space for people in recovery to connect with others who have lived through similar experiences.

It can also provide space for people to address their substance misuse and offending behaviour and reduce reoffending through connecting with others in recovery.

A really important part of what the Academy offers is Peer Support, which this role is integral to.

Recovery Connectors provide one to one mentoring support to clients to help them navigate their own recovery pathway. They can help orientate new clients within the service, welcome and induct new clients, establish supportive non-judgmental relationships with clients to help them achieve their recovery milestones and goals, help facilitate access to mutual aid and education, training, volunteering and employment opportunities and signpost and/or refer to a range of treatment/community support agencies.

Recovery Connectors are visible examples of recovery and are available to provide support and guidance, as needed, and promote the fact that recovery is real and is possible.

Hospital Liaison

Drug & Alcohol Liaison Team (DALT) see patients who present to Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) and require substance use specific support/ treatment whilst being treated for their primary complaint.

Our aim is to prescribe medically assisted withdrawal meds for those dependent to Alcohol and Opioid Substitute Therapy to those who are Opiate dependent. Once stable and safe our aim is to engage/ refer them with community substance use teams. Recovery connectors will help connect/ support around discharge planning, wrap around support and referral into treatment services

Community Access and Engagement (Triage)

The Triage Team are the first port of call for individuals looking to access drug and/or alcohol treatment services in the City Boundary. Recovery Connectors will be expected to support Practitioners within the Triage team at Health Promotion events, raising the profile of our presence in the local community, including provision of our regular community and pop-up clinics.

You will support us in breaking barriers, stigmas and misconceptions about treatment by visiting venues such as Hostels, Foodbanks, community groups and speaking with service users with an aim of promoting and increasing people’s confidence and motivation to access support.

Rough Sleepers Drug & Alcohol Treatment Team (RSDATT)

RSDATT work with people who are currently rough sleeping, or are at high risk of rough sleeping across the city. The RSDATT team primarily work as an outreach team, applying a flexible approach to engaging and supporting service users who may otherwise struggle to engage with traditional services (e.g., meeting service users in the community, flexible sessions, creative approaches to engagement).

All staff working in RSDATT are likely to work with individuals who pose high levels of risk (to self and others),and be likely to work with challenging behaviours. There is a high likelihood that whilst working in RSDATT you may be exposed to people who are currently under the influence of substances, and may enter situations where there is visible drug paraphernalia. It should also be noted that working in the RSDATT team can be emotionally challenging (e.g., seeing or hearing highly distressing material, feelings of stuckness or hopelessness when faced with systemic barriers, and struggling to engage highly risky clients).

This being said, you will receive a high level of support from your RSDATT colleagues, including access to a team Clinical Psychologist who provides group supervision as well as ad-hoc support in managing the emotional demands of the role. The postholder will be encouraged to engage in ongoing learning throughout their time in RSDATT and the role will develop as your confidence and skills develop.

Closing Date: 30 October 2026

Double Impact embraces diversity and takes a pro-active approach to equality in services and employment. Registered Charity No. 1139865.