Recovery Worker/Recovery Nurse

NHS; Fareham; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dedicated Recovery Worker to join their team in Fareham. This role focuses on empowering individuals impacted by substance misuse, providing high-quality support and interventions throughout their recovery journey. You will work collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary team, ensuring comprehensive care and fostering community reintegration. The position offers a chance to make a significant impact on people's lives, with a commitment to staff well-being and professional development. If you are passionate about making a difference and have relevant experience, this opportunity is for you.

Benefits

In-house training and coaching

Comprehensive wellbeing support

Career development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in the drug and alcohol field is essential.
• Relevant qualifications in counselling, social work, or psychology are preferred.

Responsibilities

• Maintain a full caseload of complex clients and support their recovery journey.
• Provide harm reduction advice and deliver structured psychosocial interventions.
• Develop links with multidisciplinary services and manage onward referrals.

Skills

Understanding of complex needs

Evidence-based interventions

Education

Foundation Degree/HNC in related fields

Relevant training in CBT or Motivational Interviewing

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, including 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 Fareham 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) on a 12-month Fixed Term Contract at Inclusion Recovery Hampshire's Fareham 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 they require to develop positive coping mechanisms, guiding them towards reintegrating successfully into the wider community.

About us

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 affected by addiction, crime, mental health, or sexual health issues. We believe that those who use our services should receive high-quality, committed, and inclusive care, realizing all the benefits a modern NHS organization can provide. We work with patients and staff to achieve the best outcomes possible.

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

Job responsibilities

Please see the Job Description and Person Specification for further details. A summary is below:

• Maintain a full caseload of complex clients and support their recovery journey.
• Accept referrals, assess needs, and make appropriate recommendations as part of a robust duty system.
• Provide harm reduction advice, information, and support, emphasizing safer drug and alcohol use, safer sex, HIV, Hepatitis A, B, and C, and other blood-borne viruses (BBVs).
• Carry out comprehensive assessments, construct care packages with multidisciplinary colleagues, review care plans, and manage onward referrals.
• Deliver a range of structured psychosocial interventions, including CBT-based brief solution-focused therapy, motivational enhancement techniques, and facilitate group work interventions.
• Make domiciliary visits as needed, especially for service users with disabilities and those with family responsibilities.
• Retain contact with service users in residential rehabilitation units, including visits when required.
• Develop and sustain links with multidisciplinary services, including statutory and non-statutory providers of drug and alcohol services, criminal justice services, and wrap-around services.

Person Specification

Experience

• Experience working in the drug and alcohol field.

Skills

• Understanding of the complex needs faced by people who use drugs or alcohol.
• Skills in delivering evidence-based interventions to service users.

Qualifications

• Relevant training, qualification, or experience in related fields such as CBT, Motivational Interviewing, Brief Solution-Focused Therapy, Mapping techniques (ITEP/BTEI).
• Foundation Degree/HNC in related fields, including counselling, social work, nursing, psychology, or social studies.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975, and a Disclosure check will be required to assess any previous criminal convictions.