Senior Worker/ Practitioner

Change Grow Live; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A compassionate support organization in Liverpool seeks a Senior Opiate Worker/Practitioner to empower individuals facing substance use challenges. In this full-time role, you will manage cases, support team leaders, and provide high-quality interventions. Ideal candidates should possess experience in a harm reduction setting and a passion for helping others. Join a supportive team that offers 25 days of leave, wellness initiatives, and career development opportunities.

Benefits

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Weekly wellness hour

Access to pension scheme

Training and career development opportunities

Qualifications

• Expertise in substance use practice.
• Experience in harm reduction and recovery-focused settings.
• Ability to engage and support diverse service users.

Responsibilities

• Support service users with structured clinical interventions.
• Develop recovery plans for substance use.
• Conduct health education on harm minimisation.
• Manage caseload and support team leaders.
• Run Needle Exchange initiatives.

Skills

Experience with complex substance use needs

Leadership and engagement

Safeguarding practice confidence

Training and guidance provision

Job description

At Change Grow Live (CGL), we believe in providing compassionate, person‑centred support to those facing challenges with substance use. Every individual’s journey is unique, and we are committed to offering care that respects dignity, promotes well‑being, and empowers people to make positive changes in their lives.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Opiate Worker/Practitioner within our Outreach Team in Liverpool.

What are we looking for? As Senior Practitioner, you will have an expertise in substance use and be able to support service users, frontline staff and managers. You should evidence your experience as a substance use practitioner in your application and how your experience meets the job description as a Senior Practitioner.

The Senior Practitioner will play a crucial role in ensuring the high‑quality delivery of substance use treatment and interventions within Liverpool. The role will entail some caseload management, supporting team leaders and managers with audits, supervision and training.

Location: Liverpool

Full Time Salary Range: £32,002.35 – £34,214.21 per annum dependent on experience (based on full time hours, pro rata for part time).

Hours: Full time, 37.5 per week

Please note: full‑time hours at Change Grow Live are 37.5 hours per week. For part‑time roles, the salary and payments will be pro rata based on contracted hours.

About the Role:

• Identify, and engage with, people who have substance misuse problems with complex physical and / or mental health needs, including co‑morbidity. Providing advice, support and recovery focused structured clinical and/or psychosocial interventions to support recovery and primary health care needs.
• Carry out comprehensive assessments and develop recovery plans that clearly identify how they will enable progression in addressing substance use and re/integrating into the community.
• Further develop CGL’s links with local recovery groups / mutual aid groups.
• Ensure that all aspects of confidentiality are adhered to and that consent to share information is always obtained.
• Provide health education especially in regard to harm minimisation, blood borne viruses and overdose prevention.
• Carry out key harm reduction strategies such as running of the Needle Exchange and distribution of Naloxone, after completion of appropriate training or demonstration of relevant experience.
• Support the Team Leader to carry out case file audits and ensure findings encourage a culture of learning within the team, to help improve service user outcomes via the delivery of team learning packages.
• Deputise for Team Leaders in meetings, when necessary.
• When applicable, manage the recruitment, supervision and development of Peer Mentors and Volunteers.

About You:

• We’re looking for a compassionate, skilled and experienced professional who:
• Has experience working with complex substance use needs in a harm reduction or recovery‑focused setting.
• Is passionate about empowering people to make informed choices about their health and well‑being.
• Has a positive leadership style and engages well with service users and colleagues.
• Is confident in safeguarding practice and policies.
• Is confident in developing partnerships to improve service accessibility and engagement.
• Can provide training and guidance to colleagues, sharing knowledge around harm reduction and interventions.

What We Offer:

• A supportive and inclusive team culture.
• 25 days of annual leave, plus bank holidays. Additionally, you’ll receive one extra day of annual leave for each year of service during your first five years, therefore you will enjoy 30 days of leave after five years with us.
• A weekly wellness hour, plus access to an Employee Assistance Programme.
• Access to a pension scheme and shopping, cinema, and holiday discounts.
• Training and career development opportunities.
• Refer a Friend Scheme.

Please reflect the attached Job Description and Person Specifications in your application.

Direct applications only — we will not be engaging agencies for this vacancy.

Please note: This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Applicants must already have the right to work in the UK at the time of application. For applicants with time‑limited visas, unfortunately, we are unable to support new visa applications or extensions.

We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if we receive a high number of applications, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

If this sounds like you and you would like to begin your journey with Change Grow Live, then we would love to talk to you.