Recovery Worker

Change Grow Live; Hertford (NC); On-site; Confidential; Part time

Job summary

Change Grow Live in Hertford is seeking a dedicated professional to join its Spectrum team. The role involves working with service users on entry and through their recovery journey, with emphasis on screening, assessment and onward referral.

You will contribute to reducing harm while promoting involvement of carers and the wider community. The role requires excellent communication, ability to work independently, and a strong understanding of substance misuse and mental health services.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of substance misuse issues or similar field experience.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with good IT skills.
• Proactive, able to work independently with strong time management.
• Knowledge of mental health interventions and good practice.
• Collaborative team player with ability to work with diverse stakeholders.
• Ability to manage change prioritising service users' needs.
• Understand information governance and safeguarding responsibilities.
• Demonstrate willingness to learn and develop professionally.

Responsibilities

• Support service users from entry through treatment/recovery journey.
• Provide screening, assessment, recovery planning and referrals.
• Reduce substance misuse harm in the community.
• Promote involvement of carers, service users and community.
• Advocacy for access to partner services.
• Deliver motivational interviewing when appropriate.
• Uphold safeguarding for children and adults.
• Support social reintegration and recovery-oriented goals.
• Engage with partners and maintain professional standards.

Skills

Communication

IT skills

Time management

Mental health knowledge

Team player

Stakeholder engagement

Adaptability

Tools

MS Office

Job description

Change Grow Live are a charity dedicated to the belief that we can make a difference to our Service Users lives, offering support and respect in a safe environment, treating each user as an individual and working with them to find the right treatment and care options.

Our core values are ‘Be open, be compassionate and be bold’ and our team members apply these daily to achieve our mission of helping people change the direction of their lives, grow as individuals, and live life to its full potential.

An exciting opportunity has arisen within Spectrum for you to join a dynamic team committed to supporting people with drug and/or alcohol issues on their recovery journey.

This role includes key working, running and planning our group work programmes, case management and interacting with partner agencies to ensure people accessing Spectrum can improve and change their lives. Don’t worry, there is a wide array of training and development opportunities to help support you in your work.

You will work with people with mental health issues, social & health care needs and substance misuse issues.

Where Hertford

Hours 0

Contract Type Sessional

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

• Supporting service users from point of entry into the service and through their treatment/recovery journey
• Providing screening, assessment, and recovery planning and onward referral
• Reducing drug and alcohol related harm to service users and the wider community
• Promoting carer, service user and community involvement
• Providing advocacy for access to partnership services
• motivational Interviewing
• Children’s & adult safeguarding
• Substance awareness
• Working with service users to support social (re)integration, enabling them to lead meaningful and purposeful lives promoting recovery, resilience, peer support and self-determination
• Acupuncture
• Equality/ diversity and inclusion,
• First aid

About you

• Have a strong understanding of substance misuse issues and/or experience of working within a similar field
• Be an excellent communicator, both verbal and written with good IT skills
• Proactive and able to work on own initiative with excellent time management and prioritising skills
• Have a good working knowledge of mental health interventions, services and good practice
• Be a supportive team player with strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work in partnership with a wide range of professionals, agencies and internal/external stakeholders
• Ability to manage change successfully in a way that prioritises the needs of service users
• Understand the importance of information governance processes and commit to follow and apply all necessary safeguards
• Seek out learning opportunities to improve and broaden your professional knowledge and skills and to contribute and oversee the learning and development of others

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.

£18.46/Hr.

N/A - Outside London Weighting Area

12/11/2026

9/11/2026

Heather Brooks | [e-mail] | 07881335222

This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at an enhanced level.