Trainee Recovery Practitioner

Wdp; Ellesmere Port; On-site; GBP 24,000; Part time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity awaits for a Trainee Recovery Practitioner to join a dedicated charity focused on supporting individuals dealing with substance misuse. This role emphasizes flexibility, curiosity, and strong listening skills, allowing you to make a real difference in people's lives. You'll receive training to develop therapeutic relationships and create individual recovery plans, all while working in a supportive environment that values your growth and development. If you're passionate about helping others and eager to learn, this traineeship could be the perfect start to your career in social care.

Benefits

30 days annual leave

Health and wellbeing initiatives

Financial perks

Training and career development opportunities

Qualifications

• Must have lived experience of substance misuse.
• Ability to complete peer mentoring qualification within 1 year.

Responsibilities

• Support recovery team in engaging individuals with substance misuse issues.
• Build therapeutic relationships and deliver psycho-social interventions.

Skills

Interpersonal Skills

Flexibility

Attention to Detail

Commitment to Learning

Education

OCNLR Level 2 Award in Peer Mentoring

Job description

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Job Reference: JOB0099

Location: Ellesmere Port, Cheshire

Salary: £23,821 per annum for full time (between £10,163 and £15,245 Pro rata)

Vacancy Type: Permanent/Part Time

Working Hours: Between 16 and 24 hours per week (to be agreed with the successful candidate)

Application Deadline: Sunday, April 6, 2025

Job Summary

A new and exciting opportunity has arisen for a Trainee Recovery Practitioner to join our Via Cheshire West and Chester.

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.
• 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.

Location

Ellesmere Port and Northwich, coverage to be agreed with the successful candidate.

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 Jane Murphy, Service Manager via [e-mail].

The closing date for applications is Sunday 6 April at midnight.

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 this link using our short application form, and your CV. For guidance on how to complete the application visit this link. 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.