Recovery Worker - ROAR

Turning Point UK; Oldham; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Turning Point UK seeks passionate Recovery workers to support communities in Oldham & Rochdale. With varied roles in treatment services, outreach, and rehabilitation, candidates will engage directly with service users to foster recovery. Extensive training, career progression, and a supportive work culture await motivated individuals ready to make a difference.

Benefits

25 days paid holiday plus Bank Holidays

Options to buy additional holidays

Qualifications

• Valued experience in substance use, mental health, and social care.
• Transferable skills in housing or social care preferred.

Responsibilities

• Act as key worker for service users to support treatment goals.
• Maintain regular contact and offer psycho-social interventions.
• Work closely with clinical staff and partner agencies.

Skills

Communication

Task Management

Flexibility

Creativity

Job description

Do you want to help build a brighter future for communities and individuals in Oldham & Rochdale? Turning Point’s drug & alcohol services are expanding during an exciting time in the sector with new funding and investment. We have a range of roles for people passionate about supporting others to make change.

We have roles in different teams including:

1. Community based treatment services: providing assessment, coordinating treatment, and working in partnership to support individuals. The roles include delivering structured psycho-social interventions in group and one-to-one settings to enable service users to acquire thinking skills and behaviors for lasting change.
2. Homeless outreach provision: targeting homeless individuals, offering flexible outreach responses to highly vulnerable individuals sleeping rough or living in temporary accommodation.
3. Criminal Justice rehabilitation/recovery services: working closely with Probation Services, Prisons, and Police to provide rapid, tailored responses that support recovery and rehabilitation.

You will have opportunities to progress your career with a structured learning journey and clearly defined pathways to achieve your long-term goals and work to your strengths.

Whether you aim to progress into management and leadership or become a specialist as an Advanced Substance Use Practitioner, Turning Point will support and encourage your career development.

Role Responsibilities

Recovery workers act as ‘key workers’ to a caseload of service users, supporting them to set treatment goals and develop plans to achieve these. The role includes maintaining regular contact, offering advice, information, psycho-social interventions, assessments, risk management planning, and working closely with clinical staff and partner agencies. Effective communication, task management, and a commitment to Turning Point values are essential. Experience with substance use, mental health, homelessness, or supporting health and social care is valued, but candidates with the right values are encouraged to apply.

The Ideal Candidate

The candidate should understand substance and alcohol use challenges and opportunities for recovery. Transferable skills from mental health, housing, or other social care backgrounds are also valued. Flexibility, dynamic working ability, knowledge of relapse barriers, excellent communication skills, and shared organizational values are essential. Our Trainee Recovery Worker program offers entry-level opportunities for those without all experience but with interest in this field.

We value creativity and initiative. All roles involve identifying opportunities to improve services and user experiences, supported by extensive training and a culture of continuous learning and service improvement.

About us

We support our employees with a total reward package including:

• 25 days’ paid holiday plus Bank Holidays, increasing up to 27 days + Bank Holidays, with options to buy additional holidays.
• Explore all benefits at: Turning Point Benefits.

We reserve the right to close this advert early if the position is filled before the closing date.

Starting salary: £25,116, with annual progression up to £29,383.