Senior Recovery Practitioner

Viaorg; Ellesmere Port; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading community service provider seeks a Senior Recovery Practitioner to support recovery and positive change. This role involves managing a team, providing expert guidance, and ensuring comprehensive care for individuals facing substance misuse challenges. The position offers substantial benefits, including 30 days of annual leave and opportunities for professional development.

Benefits

30 days annual leave

Health and wellbeing initiatives

Financial perks

Development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in line management and supporting high-performance teams.
• Providing expert advice on substance misuse challenges.
• Ability to develop tailored care plans for clients.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a team of recovery and wellbeing practitioners.
• Develop and implement care plans for individuals in recovery.
• Conduct non-judgmental, trauma-informed interventions.

Skills

Leadership

Compassion

Teamwork

Counseling

Case Management

Job description

Are you a compassionate leader with a passion for supporting recovery and driving positive change? Join our dedicated team as a Senior Recovery Practitioner and help shape the future of substance misuse support in your community.

The Role

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Recovery Practitioner, you will support staff and those who use our service. As a Senior Recovery Practitioner within a multi-disciplinary team, your expertise will contribute to effective interventions, improved health outcomes, and meaningful progress in recovery for people across the community.

You will require the following:

• have experience of line management.
• be part of a high-performance team that focuses on outcomes and welcomes innovation.
• have line management responsibilities of a team of recovery & wellbeing practitioner, ensuring best practices in substance misuse support.
• provide expert advice and guidance to individuals experiencing substance misuse challenges.
• hold a case load of complex cases, develop tailored care plans that support harm reduction, recovery, and access to treatment.
• offer non-judgmental, trauma-informed interventions in a safe and supportive environment.
• link in with local services to reduce the barriers faced by individuals using our service.
• contribute and attend relevant multi-agency meetings.

The Service

This service is an established Community Integrated service that is well performing and highly functioning, it is CQC registered to provide a range of clinical interventions including BBV & health interventions, OST, and community detox alongside a comprehensive psychosocial and recovery focussed model.

Location

Unity House, 4 York Road, Ellesmere Port CH65 0DB.

To see the generous range of benefits we offer at Via including 30 days annual leave for all new starters, our health and wellbeing initiatives, financial perks and development opportunities – visit our Benefits Package

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Via we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

The closing date for applications is Sunday 15 June at midnight.

Interviews are likely to take place week commencing 16 June.

All our applications are sifted by humans. Please send us applications that reflect your own knowledge, experience and values and not applications that have been generated by artificial intelligence (AI).

Via welcomes enquiries from everyone, and we value diversity in our workplace. Our commitment to promoting diversity and developing a workplace environment where all staff are treated with dignity and respect is central to our recruitment process.

We’re a Disability Confident Employer and are committed to the employment and career development of disabled people. We offer an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for our jobs, please confirm in the personal statement part of our application form that you are applying under this scheme.

Appointment to all our posts are subject to satisfactory completion of our safeguarding checks including DBS and we follow safer recruiting principles.

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