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Recovery Practitioner - Via

Royal Borough of Greenwich

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GBP 29,000 - 33,000

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Job summary

Join the Royal Borough of Greenwich as a Recovery Practitioner, focusing on empowering individuals facing substance misuse difficulties. You will engage with the community to enhance service provision, ensuring thorough assessment and effective treatment interventions while striving for the wellbeing of vulnerable populations.

Benefits

30 days annual leave for new starters

Health and wellbeing initiatives

Financial perks and development opportunities

Qualifications

Experience working with substance misuse or vulnerable individuals required.
Ability to carry a caseload with thorough assessments.
Strong planning for effective treatment interventions.

Responsibilities

Support local community with substance misuse issues.
Conduct assessments and ensure safeguarding.
Deliver face-to-face and group work using evidence-based interventions.

Skills

Motivational interviewing

Brief advice and intervention

Assessments of need

Treatment interventions planning

Group work

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Salary

£29,124 - £32,946 per annum, including London Weighting where appropriate

Recovery Practitioner

Location

Greenwich

Salary

£29,124 - £32,946 per annum, including London Weighting where appropriate

Vacancy Type

Permanent/Full Time

Working Hours

37.5 hours per week

Application Deadline

15 June 2025

Job Summary

Join our team as a Recovery Practitioner and make a real difference - Empowering Lives, One Step at a Time in Greenwich!

The Role

You will be a dynamic, driven individual who is committed to supporting the local Opiate, Alcohol dependant and Non-dependant substance misuse community and their associated needs by:

Working with the local community, making every contact count through motivational interviewing and brief advice and intervention.
Identifying and targeting known hot spots, including partnership working and joint operations as required.
Supporting the RBG (to collate and gather information from a range of sources, including street drinkers, partner agencies and residents).
Supporting those in the area into mainstream services and working with local providers to enhance provision for this hard to engage population.

You will:

have experience of working with people who are experiencing substance misuse difficulties or who are vulnerable.
carry a caseload ensuring that assessments of need are conducted thoroughly, that safeguarding of those who use our service, their families and the wider community are protected from harm.
have responsibility for planning and delivery of effective treatment interventions for people.
deliver face to face, group work utilising evidenced based interventions.

The Service

Launched in 2020, Via Greenwich is a fully integrated substance misuse service, providing clinical and psychosocial interventions, operating from a main treatment hub in Woolwich. 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 Greenwich residents, irrespective of circumstance.

Location

This role will be in the Royal Borough of Greenwich (821 Woolwich Road,) providing a service across the whole borough but based Charlton. You may be required to work flexibly to provide some evening sessions and from other satellite services throughout Greenwich Borough where you will be able to support the local community.

The nearest train stations are Charlton and North Greenwich Station.

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.

For an informal chat about the role please contact Kasia Choluj, Deputy Service Manager via Kasia.Choluj@viaorg.uk

The closing date for applications is Sunday 15 June at midnight.

Interviews are likely to take place on Tuesday 17 May.

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 https://www.viaorg.uk/work-at-via/career-paths/ using our short application form, and your CV. For guidance on how to complete the application visit https://www.viaorg.uk/work-at-via/how-to-apply/. 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 are subject to satisfactory completion of our safeguarding checks including DBS and we follow safer recruiting principles.

Please email people@viaorg.uk if you have any recruitment enquiries or if you require this documentation in an accessible format.

For an informal discussion about this opportunity, please contact Kasia Choluj; Kasia.Choluj@viaorg.uk

If you require any assistance in viewing or accessing this opportunity, please contact recruitment@royalgreenwich.gov.uk or call 020-8921-8977

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