Recovery Worker - Wandsworth (Borough Based Ref:0038ZD)

TN United Kingdom; London; On-site; GBP 27,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading charity is seeking a compassionate Recovery Worker in Wandsworth to provide high-quality support to individuals facing drug, alcohol, and mental health challenges. This full-time role involves creating treatment plans, engaging with clients, and ensuring they receive the necessary care and resources. Join a team dedicated to making a positive impact in the community.

Benefits

28 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Extra day off for your birthday

Enhanced maternity and paternity leave

Paid volunteer leave

Pension scheme

Access to Blue Light Card discounts

Flexible working opportunities

Refer a Friend scheme with £500 bonus

Qualifications

• Experience in health, social care, or criminal justice settings.
• Ability to build meaningful relationships with clients.
• Passion for supporting individuals with drug and alcohol challenges.

Responsibilities

• Support clients in identifying goals and creating treatment plans.
• Engage and assess service users in a hospital setting.
• Provide harm reduction information and ensure access to treatment.

Skills

Compassion

Communication

Organizational Skills

Motivational Interviewing

Job description

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Recovery Worker - Wandsworth (Borough Based Ref:0038ZD), London

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Client:

We Are With You

Location:

London, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

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EU work permit required:

Yes

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Job Reference:

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Posted:

19.05.2025

Expiry Date:

03.07.2025

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About the Role

Join our team as Recovery Worker in Wandsworth.

Are you a compassionate and motivated individual who wants to change people’s lives? Our team in Wandsworth is 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.

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.

All applicants must submit a CV along with a cover letter explaining why they should be considered for this role.

The closing date for applications is the 1st June 2025. Please note: This role may close earlier than the stated deadline if we receive a high volume of applications, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

About the role

Our Recovery Workers play a vital role in supporting clients to identify their goals, ambitions, and passions. You’ll work with them to create the best treatment plan for their needs and to guide them on their path to recovery. In this role you will work across the borough to engage and assess service users in a hospital setting - providing harm reduction information, using motivational interview skills, and ensuring that service users are referred and signposted to appropriate services and supported to access drug and alcohol treatment.

This is a frontline role at WithYou, where you will provide continuity of care through effective partnership working, care coordination, key work responsibilities, and intervention delivery. You will manage an active caseload, connecting quickly with clients and ensuring they’re always treated with respect and dignity. This team is part of a consortium of leading substance misuse providers, including South London and Maudsley Trust (SLAM), CDARS, and St Mungo's.

This position is full time and permanent with a salary of £27,821.35 - £35,762.50 per annum (this is inclusive of an Inner London Weighting payment of £4,000 per annum).

What we’re looking for

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.

A full job description and person specification are available on request by emailing [emailprotected] .

About Company

WithYou provides free and confidential support, without judgement, to more than 100,000 people every year experiencing challenges with drugs, alcohol and mental health across England and Scotland.

Our name reflects who we are – a positive place where people can progress, connect with others and get friendly, expert help in a way that’s right for them.

Our staff team changes lives. If you’re passionate about helping people get the support they need for issues with drugs, alcohol and mental health, we’d love to hear from you.

DE&I

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 goals of radically improving people's lives. 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.

WithYou 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.

• 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-enrollment 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 if your recommended friend completes their 6 months probation period