Recovery & Wellbeing Practitioner

Wdp; Chester; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking organization as a Recovery & Wellbeing Practitioner in Chester, where you will make a significant impact on individuals' recovery journeys. This role involves delivering compassionate care and support to adults facing substance misuse challenges, ensuring they achieve their recovery goals through personalized interventions and group work. With a commitment to diversity and a supportive environment, this position offers a chance to contribute to meaningful transformations in the community. If you are passionate about helping others and thrive in a collaborative setting, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

30 days annual leave

Health and wellbeing initiatives

Financial perks

Development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in working within substance misuse services.
• Ability to deliver structured treatment groups effectively.

Responsibilities

• Deliver drug and alcohol services, facilitating positive outcomes.
• Manage a case load and deliver evidence-based interventions.

Skills

Empathy

Time Management

Teamwork

Substance Misuse Experience

Intervention Delivery

Job description

Transform Lives and Strengthen Communities as a Recovery & Wellbeing Practitioner in Chester!

The Role

This rewarding and exciting role will be key in ensuring that effective, efficient and appropriate care is planned and managed well for people and that this care achieves a positive impact to the recovery of the individual.

Based within the Chester integrated Drug and Alcohol Service, your role will support adults who use our service within the area to achieve their recovery journey goals, via 1:1s and structured groupwork programme. Your responsibilities will include:

• delivering excellent drug and alcohol services to people and their significant others, including family members friends and carers, to facilitate positive outcomes.
• having experience in working within substance misuse services.
• managing a case load and co-ordinate and deliver assessment and evidence-based interventions (brief and structured), recovery planning and aftercare planning and risk assessments.
• having experience of delivering structured treatment groups.
• working collaboratively with colleagues and key stakeholder across multi-disciplinary teams, ensuring adherence with all Via policies and Safeguarding principles.
• delivering harm reduction advice, psychosocial interventions, needle & syringe exchanges, Blood borne virus testing and interventions, drug testing and overdose prevention advice.

An empathetic and non-judgmental approach is imperative, as this role involves working with a wide range of challenging issues and behaviours. Good time management and team working skills are essential in this fast-paced service.

The Service

Cheshire West and Chester is a fully integrated recovery service delivered by Via We offer free and confidential support for individuals affected by drug and alcohol problems and their families and carers. We believe with the right support; people can make long-lasting transformations in their lives to improve their health and wellbeing.

Location

Based at Aqua House, 51 Boughton, Chester, CH3 5AF.

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

The closing date for applications is Sunday 25 May at midnight.

You will need to be available for Interview on Friday 30 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).

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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