Recovery Worker - Prison Inreach

We Are With You; Greater London; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 31,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

28 days annual leave

Birthday off

Pension scheme

Volunteer leave

Blue Light Card

Flexible working

Refer a Friend £500 bonus

Job summary

We Are With You is recruiting a Recovery Worker for roles in Wigan within a prison-linked recovery context. The role focuses on building therapeutic relationships, conducting assessments, planning recovery, and coordinating care to reduce substance-related harm and support resettlement.

The post is full-time (37.5 hours weekly) with progression through pay bands, and requires experience in health, social care or criminal justice settings, plus a commitment to compassionate, client-centered care.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience in health, social care, criminal justice, or motivation to work in drugs/alcohol sector.
• Proven track record of providing efficient and reliable customer service.
• Highly organised with excellent communication and time management.

Responsibilities

• Build therapeutic relationships with individuals in custody or custody settings.
• Provide assessment, recovery planning, harm reduction, and structured interventions.
• Coordinate care across prison staff, healthcare professionals, and community services to ensure continuity of care.
• Contribute to reducing reoffending and supporting successful resettlement.

Skills

Compassionate

Relationship-building

Time management

Teamwork

Communication

Customer service

Job description

Join our team as a Recovery Worker in Wigan.

Are you a compassionate and motivated individual who wants to change people’s lives? Our team in Wigan are looking for a Recovery Worker to join them in providing high-quality recovery care to a diverse client group. If you are enthusiastic, creative and passionate about helping others, we’d love to hear from you.

Our vibrant services in Wigan and Leigh provide support to people concerned about their own or someone else's alcohol or drug use. We have services in both Wigan and Leigh but much of our work is carried out in the local communities we serve. We are an integrated drug and alcohol service, delivering an asset based community approach to treatment. We specialise in harm reduction and needle syringe provision, psycho social interventions, opioid substitution treatment, referral to detox and community interventions. Check out what our Wigan and Leigh sites have to offer here.

As a leading charity supporting people with drug, alcohol, and mental health challenges, we operate over 80 services across England and Scotland, providing free and confidential support to more than 100,000 people each year. Find out more about us here.

Job Description

As a Prison In-Reach Recovery Worker, you will play a key role in supporting people affected by substance use within a custodial setting, working predominantly across HMP Forest Bank and HMP Styal. You will build positive, therapeutic relationships with people in prison, providing assessment, recovery planning, harm reduction, structured interventions and ongoing care coordination to support individuals to reduce substance-related harm and progress towards recovery and successful resettlement.

Working as part of a multidisciplinary prison team, you will liaise closely with prison staff, healthcare professionals, community services and other partner agencies to ensure continuity of care throughout a person’s time in custody and on release. This is a rewarding role where your expertise, compassion and ability to engage people can make a meaningful difference to health, wellbeing, recovery and reducing reoffending.

This is a full time, permanent position working 37.5 hours per week Monday to Friday. As a Recovery Worker, we offer a starting salary of £26,250, rising each year in line with our pay progression salary bands, to £30,900 per year.

Company Benefits

• 28 days annual leave, plus bank holidays
• An extra day off for your birthday or a special occasion of your choice
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• 2 days paid volunteer leave per year
• Auto-enrolment into We Are With You’s pension scheme
• Access to a Blue Light Card - giving you great savings on big high-street and online brands
• Flexible working opportunities and access to a range of services and resources to support you with your wellbeing
• We have an excellent Refer a Friend scheme which offers you a £500 bonus for any recommendations, any role! Our scheme allows you to recommend your friends and family to work with us and earn a £500 bonus payment for every successful referral you make. Please note, the Refer a Friend scheme is only applicable once your recommended friend has been employed for 6 months

Essential Skills

We’re looking for a compassionate and motivated individual, with an exceptional ability to build meaningful relationships. You will have demonstrable experience working within the health, social care, criminal justice or other specialist setting, or a clear motivation for wanting to work in the drug and alcohol sector. A successful track record of providing efficient and reliable customer service is essential.

You will be highly organised, have excellent communication skills, and be able to manage your time effectively. You will work collaboratively as part of a team to ensure a high-quality service is maintained.

Above all, we are looking for someone who is passionate about what we do and has a positive and engaging approach to our clients and key stakeholders.

Creating an Inclusive Environment

As an organisation, we continue to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports and celebrates the diverse voices and experiences of our staff. We know that representing the communities we serve is key to us meeting our vision of a future where everyone lives a life free from the harm associated with drugs and alcohol. We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring and we encourage people from underrepresented communities and backgrounds to apply to join our team, including people with lived experience, people with disabilities, people from racialised communities, LGBTQ+ people, people of all ages and armed forces veterans.

As part of our commitment to the Armed Forces Covenant we provide a guaranteed interview scheme for candidates that are veterans and meet all the essential criteria for a role. With You is also a Disability Confident Employer and we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for candidates with a disability and meet all the essential criteria for a role.

If you have a disability, a learning difficulty such as dyslexia or a medical condition which you believe may affect your performance during any aspect of our selection process, we’ll be happy to make reasonable adjustments to enable you to perform at your best.

Please note that you will be required to provide 3 years worth of references and where applicable, undergo an enhanced DBS check, to be considered for a role at WithYou.

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