Trainee Recovery Practitioner

Viaorg; Chester, Ellesmere Port; On-site; GBP 9,000 - 15,000; Part time

Job summary

Viaorg is seeking a Trainee Recovery Practitioner in Chester, offering a unique opportunity to leverage your lived experience to help others battling substance misuse. In this role, you will learn to support individuals through their recovery journey, collaborate with team members, and gain valuable training in a rewarding environment.

Benefits

30 days annual leave

Health and wellbeing initiatives

Financial perks

Career development opportunities

Qualifications

• Lived experience of substance misuse.
• Ability to complete Peer Mentoring award within 1 year.

Responsibilities

• Support individuals with substance misuse needs.
• Record and document interactions.
• Develop individual recovery plans with clients.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Flexibility

Listening

Education

OCNLR Level 2 Award in Peer Mentoring

Job description

Job Reference JOB0209 Location Chester & Ellesmere Port Salary £9,719 - £14,579 per annum, dependent on hours agreed Vacancy Type Permanent/Part Time Working Hours 16 to 24 hours per week, to be agreed with successful candidate Application Deadline Sunday, July 20, 2025 Job Summary

Are you ready to turn your lived experience into a powerful force for change? Via’s Cheshire West and Chester Service is offering a unique opportunity to begin your journey as a Trainee Recovery Practitioner - where every day brings the chance to make a real difference in someone’s life.

The Role

You'll enjoy working with people from all backgrounds, making a difference to their lives – supporting with a variety of individual needs around substance misuse. No two days are the same and we treat every person who comes into our service as an individual, so being flexible, curious and a good listener are key. You'll have to record information about what you do, so enjoying a bit of paperwork and attention to detail is important too.

You will have a lived experience of substance misuse and possess OCNLR Level 2 Award in Peer Mentoring or equivalent. Or the ability and commitment to complete this within 1 year of employment.

Some of the things you will learn about throughout your traineeship: - How to support the recovery team in engaging people who have substance misuse problems, providing them with advice, support and recovery focused interventions to support their recovery and health care needs.

• Over time with training, build therapeutic relationships and deliver psycho-social interventions - How to participate in people’s assessments and learn to develop individual recovery plans that clearly identify how achieving each goal will enable progression in addressing substance use and re-integrating into the community.
• Service based recovery communities, and how they can support individual's recovery journeys. How other team members' work, such as our clinical team - developing 'recovery resources' and accessing peer and mutual support groups so that you can support people in developing their own recovery strategies. Plus much more!
• An interest in the social care sector, within the field of drugs and alcohol - Excellent team working and interpersonal skills, with a willingness to work with managers, colleagues, and peers in order to deliver service objectives.
• Ability to work and study in order to gain positive outcomes for those who use our service and yourself.
• A commitment to seek learning opportunities to improve and broaden your own professional knowledge.
• A friendly and supportive team - Training, career development & progression opportunities If this sounds like you and you'd like to begin your traineeship journey with Via then we'd like to talk to you.

The Service

Via is a charity dedicated to the belief that we can make a difference to lives of those who use our services, offering peer mentoring support and respect in a safe environment, treating each person as an individual and working with them to find the right support options.

Via is an adult treatment and recovery service which offers a range of pharmacological and psycho-social interventions to the Cheshire West & Chester community who are experiencing issues with drugs and alcohol use. Peer Mentor Team delivers support to those who have completed their structured treatment and those who could benefit from additional support during their recovery journey.

Location

We have 2 roles - 1 @ Chester & 1 @ Ellesmere port, please ensure when applying you stipulate which Hub you are applying for.

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

For an informal chat about the role please contact Amanda Casey, Team Manager (Ellesmere Port) via [e-mail] or Andy Cornish, Team Manager (Chester) via [e-mail]

The closing date for applications is Sunday 20 July at midnight.

Interviews will take place week commencing 21 July – you will need to be available for interview that week.

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).

We accept applications via https://www.viaorg.uk/work-at-via/career-paths/ using our short application form, and your CV. For guidance on how to complete the application visit https://www.viaorg.uk/work-at-via/how-to-apply/ . Please submit your application as soon as possible as we may close adverts at any time if we receive a sufficient number of applications.

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.

Please email [e-mail] if you have any recruitment enquiries or if you require this documentation in an accessible format.

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