Recovery Practitioner

Wdp; Gloucester; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a passionate team in Gloucester to make a real impact in the lives of individuals facing substance use challenges. This role offers the chance to manage a diverse caseload and provide essential support in a dynamic service environment. With a focus on recovery-based approaches, you will collaborate with a clinical team to deliver high-quality interventions and contribute to community health initiatives. This is a maternity cover fixed-term contract with a supportive workplace culture.

Benefits

30 days annual leave

Health and wellbeing initiatives

Financial perks

Development opportunities

Qualifications

• In-depth knowledge of challenges affecting people with substance use.
• Experience managing a caseload of clients.

Responsibilities

• Provide quality care to clients accessing treatment for substance use.
• Manage a mixed caseload and deliver a range of groups.
• Support health and wellbeing initiatives.

Skills

Substance Use Knowledge

Intervention Skills

Team Collaboration

Job description

Make a real impact in Gloucester - support recovery, lead change, and grow with a passionate team dedicated to transforming lives.

The Role

This is an exciting opportunity to hold a mixed caseload and support other tasks including assessment, duty and groups in a thriving service, making positive changes in peoples’ lives, through a non-judgmental, recovery-based approach that values the strengths and choices of those individuals.

Through joining Via you will receive a warm welcome, peer support, training, regular supervision and the chance to thrive in a lively and innovative service.

The main purpose of this role is to provide excellent quality of care to people who use our service accessing treatment for substance use and their complex needs, in partnership with our clinical team, counsellors and other professionals involved in client's care.

You will have an in-depth knowledge and experience of the challenges affecting people with substance use and related health and wellbeing issues.

Working as part of a dynamic team you will be responsible for managing a caseload of clients, to include prescribing, providing a good quality of interventions at varying stages of their recovery as well as developing and delivering a wide range of groups.

The duties are varied, and no two days will be the same.

Duties may include supporting other areas of service delivery as well as helping to take part in a wide range of special interests and activities that support health and wellbeing such as smoking cessation and local events.

The Service

Adult Drug and Alcohol Services across Gloucestershire transferred to Via on 1st April 2024. The role is part of Via’s structure and provides a great opportunity to build on existing service strengths, drive new developments and make a positive impact as part of this new contract.

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

This is a maternity cover fixed term contract.

The closing date for applications is Monday 9 June.

Interviews are likely to take place on Thursday 19 June.

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).

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 are subject to satisfactory completion of our safeguarding checks including DBS and we follow safer recruiting principles.

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