Specialist Recovery Practitioner | Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

CNWL NHS Foundation Trust; England; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A specialist healthcare provider in England is seeking an experienced addiction support worker to join their multidisciplinary team. The ideal candidate will have expertise in substance misuse and the ability to deliver evidence-based interventions. Responsibilities include assessment, care planning, and providing both individual and group work support to clients dealing with substance dependencies. This position is vital in helping clients achieve recovery and improve their quality of life.

Qualifications

• Experience in delivering evidence-based interventions for substance users.
• Ability to work within a multidisciplinary team.
• Understanding of harm minimisation techniques.

Responsibilities

• Assisting with assessments and care planning for individuals with substance issues.
• Delivering individual and group interventions.
• Ensuring compliance with clinical governance standards.

Skills

Specialist knowledge in substance misuse

Assessment and care planning skills

Motivational interviewing

Group work facilitation

Risk management

Education

Relevant qualification in substance misuse or mental health

Job description

ARC-MK help people over the age of 18, residing in Milton Keynes, who want to break a cycle of addiction to substances or long-term alcohol addiction. We offer a variety of psychosocial and clinical interventions to support clients throughout their treatment journey.

This role will hold a caseload of individuals and specifically provide support to individuals through offering 1-1 and group work interventions.

The post holder will use their specialist knowledge and skills in substance misuse to undertake assessment, care planning, implementing and evaluating the case and treatment of clients. He/she will perform duty assessments to clients that are new to the service, in addition to acting as keyworker to a defined allocated caseload of clients, under the supervision of designated manager within the team.

The post holder will be responsible for ensuring that the delivery of the care and management of this client group is done in compliance with expected Standards and ensuring adherence to policies and procedures.

The Addictions Directorate within CNWL Foundation Trust is a large, well-established provider which offers a wide range of specialist NHS drug and alcohol treatment interventions to the diverse and multicultural populations in Central and North West London. Our drug and alcohol services include community services, 1 in-patient service. We also run national Gambling and Gaming Services, Smoking Cessation services and a Club Drug Clinic.

Our substance use services are dedicated to helping reduce the harm caused by substance use dependency; helping people overcome their dependency on substances and helping clients and their families rebuild their lives and enable recovery. We are committed to working in partnership with other providers and service users in local systems of treatment and recovery.

CNWL is committed to providing high quality, evidence-based treatment options and is a learning organisation which promotes staff competence and training and values clinical governance, audit and research. We are linked with Imperial College, University of London and are committed to evaluating our services and developing new and innovative approaches.

For further information about the advertised role, please refer to the job description & person specification included in the documents section of this advert.

Main Responsibilities

• To work as a member of the multidisciplinary team which provides a range of specialist services to service users presenting with substance use issues, including alcohol. Including delivering evidence-based interventions such as: harm minimisation approaches, motivational interviewing, relapse prevention, care planning individual intervention, health education and detoxification programmes, mindfulness, counselling and group work in 1-1 and group work settings.
• To make continuous assessments of the psychological, emotional, social and rehabilitative needs of clients, taking into account the needs of family, local community and developing care plans and evaluation of these plans.
• To be able to assess and case manage clients who inject drugs, in particular assessing injection sites and be conversant with the precepts of harm minimisation, taking a predominant role in providing duty assessments to clients who are new to the service.
• To ensure compliance of, and use agreed and established Outcome Monitoring Tools and any other relevant quality measures to support the delivery of contracted service.
• Work with internal and external colleagues to ensure the best practice is shared and knowledge is available to the to ensure services meet required standards, are evidence-based and demonstrate impact in terms of a recovery orientation. Leading on an area of specialism, where appropriate.
• To manage the transfer of individuals between agencies and services.
• To promote across the service and ensure full risk assessments and risk management is delivered effectively, under supervision.
• To ensure an understanding, compliance with and implementation of clinical governance.

This advert closes on Thursday 2 Oct 2025