Recovery Worker (NHS AfC: Band 5) - Drug and Alcohol Recovery Worker - Midlands Partnership Uni[...]

Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust - Inclusion Services; Aldershot; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 37,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS organization seeks a passionate Drug and Alcohol Recovery Worker to empower service users in their recovery journey. This full-time role involves providing high-quality support, conducting assessments, and facilitating interventions to help individuals reintegrate into the community. Join a dedicated team making a real difference in the lives of those affected by substance misuse.

Benefits

Comprehensive wellbeing and lifestyle support

In-house training and coaching support

Qualifications

• Experience in drug and alcohol or related field.
• Willingness to work towards accreditation.
• Relevant training in CBT, Motivational Interviewing.

Responsibilities

• Maintain a full caseload of complex clients.
• Provide harm reduction advice and support.
• Conduct comprehensive assessments and create care packages.

Skills

Harm reduction

Recovery approaches

Education

Foundation Degree / HNC in related field

Accredited Drug and Alcohol Practitioner

Job description

Main area Drug and Alcohol Recovery Worker Grade NHS AfC: Band 5 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Occasional weekend and evening working) Job ref 301-IT-25-7188993

Employer Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust - Inclusion Services Employer type NHS Site Inclusion Aldershot Town Aldershot Salary £29,970 - £36,483 Per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 08/06/2025 23:59

Recovery Worker

NHS AfC: Band 5

Job overview

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 within the Aldershot hub 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.

Main duties of the job

Full Time Recovery Worker (working 37.5 hours per week) at Inclusion Recovery Hampshire’s Aldershot Service.

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.

Working for our organisation

Inclusion, created in 2002 is part of the Specialist Services Care Group of Midlands Partnership University 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!

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the Job Description and Person Specification for further details, a summary is below:

• Be responsible for maintaining a full caseload of complex clients and supporting them to move forward in their recovery.
• To accept referrals, assess need and make appropriate recommendations as part as a robust duty system.
• Provide harm reduction advice, information and support with an emphasis on safer drug and alcohol use, safer sex, HIV, Hepatitis A, B and C and other blood borne viruses (BBVs).
• To carry out comprehensive assessments, construct care packages with multi-disciplinary colleagues where required, review care plans in a structured format and manage onward referral.
• To provide a range of structured psychosocial interventions including CBT-based brief solution-focused therapy, motivational enhancement techniques, and create and facilitate group work interventions.
• To make domiciliary visits consistent with need, particularly for service users with disabilities and to those with family responsibilities.
• To develop and sustain links with multi-disciplinary services including statutory and non-statutory providers of drug and alcohol services, criminal justice services and providers of wrap around services.
• To develop a network of contacts with relevant agencies to promote service accessibility for the client group

Person specification

Experience

• Experience in drug and alcohol or related field

Skills

• A commitment to, and understanding of, harm reduction & recovery approaches when working with people who use Drug and Alcohol

Qualifications

• Accredited Drug and Alcohol Practitioner, or a willingness to work towards accreditation during employment with Inclusion
• Relevant training / Qualification in associated field; CBT, Motivational Interviewing, Brief solution focussed therapy, Mapping techniques (ITEP/BTEI)
• Foundation Degree / HNC in related field which may include counselling, social work, nursing, psychology, human resources, social studies

Employer certification / accreditation badges

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name Kelsey Davis Job title Team Leader Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 0300 1240103 Additional information If you would like to know more and find out whether joining our dedicated team is for you then please get in touch with Kelsey Davis as we would love to hear from you. **** We do not accept CVs. Applications will only be considered if made via the website.**** ****This vacancy may close early if a sufficient number of applications are received.****