Recovery Worker

Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust; England; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 30,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider seeks a part-time Recovery Worker to support individuals in their journey through substance misuse treatment. This role involves providing interventions, care planning, and assessments, and working within a multidisciplinary team to make a positive impact on service users' lives.

Benefits

Comprehensive wellbeing and lifestyle support

In-house training and coaching support

Qualifications

• Experience with substance misuse and care planning is beneficial.
• Motivated to support service users and develop social networks.

Responsibilities

• Provide care and support to service users throughout their recovery journey.
• Maintain accurate records and documentation.

Skills

Empathy

Communication

Teamwork

Education

Qualification in health or social care (not mandatory)

Job description

Are you committed to making a positive change and empowering service users to achieve a better quality of life?

We have an exciting opportunity for a passionate and caring individual to join our teams within Inclusion Recovery Hampshire, a drug and alcohol treatment and support service for individuals impacted by their own or someone else’s use of alcohol or drugs.

In this role, you will utilise all of your expertise in providing a remarkable service and care to your own caseload of service users, this includes being responsible for offering a range of interventions, care planning, assessments and supporting service users through their treatment journey and recovery ambitions – from beginning to end.

Working as part of our dedicated and multi-disciplinary team and alongside our prescribers, you will offer health support via testing clinics for blood borne viruses (BBVs), embracing the concept of recovery and keeping up-to-date and accurate records and documentation.

The vacancy is open to qualified professionals, or members of the public with some understanding of substance misuse and is based at Inclusion Grendon for Inclusion Recovery Hampshire.

You will be an integral part of a team, making a real difference to people’s lives and the wider communities in which we serve.

Part-time Recovery Worker at Inclusion Grendon, on a fixed term basis for 12 months up to 14/06/2026.

Everyone should feel comfortable getting the support they need for issues relating to drugs and alcohol and as a Recovery Worker, you will have a duty of care to those in need, providing high quality, inclusive and non-judgemental support. You will be motivated to support service users to develop the social networks and skills that they require to develop positive coping mechanisms, to guide them towards reintegrating successfully into the wider community.

Inclusion, created in 2002 is part of the Specialist Services Care Group of Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT). We provide caring and effective services across England, including, West Yorkshire, West Midlands, East Midlands, West Mercia, Thames Valley, Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Thurrock, Essex.

We support individuals, families and communities who are affected by addiction, crime, mental health or need treatment for their sexual health. We believe that the individuals and families who use our services should receive high quality, committed and inclusive care, realising all the benefits a modern NHS organisation can provide. We work with patients and our staff teams to achieve the best outcomes we can.

We invest heavily in training and development, and the wellbeing of our people, both staff and service users is central to who we are. Here at MPFT, we are proud of the comprehensive wellbeing and lifestyle support offer available, in addition to in-house training and coaching support. Our services are robustly governed, evidence-based, inclusive, and designed and provided in conjunction with service users. We are committed to providing the best service we can, and if you share our values, we want you on our team!

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Lucy Joy Job title: Cluster Manager Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07779873315

If you would like to know more and find out whether joining our dedicated team is for you then please get in touch with Lucy as we would love to hear from you.

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****This vacancy may close early if a sufficient number of applications are received.****