Are you passionate about helping people overcome addiction and rebuild their lives? Do you thrive in a fast-paced, supportive environment where every day brings the opportunity to make a real impact?
We're looking for a Drug & Alcohol Recovery Worker to join our dedicated team, delivering high-quality, person-centred support to adults with drug and alcohol support needs within an integrated healthcare setting.
This is a rewarding opportunity to work alongside healthcare professionals, prison staff, and community partners to empower people on their recovery journey and support successful rehabilitation and reintegration into the community.
What You'll Be Doing
- Managing a diverse caseload of clients with drug and alcohol support needs.
- Completing assessments, care plans, risk assessments, and regular reviews.
- Delivering engaging one-to-one and group interventions using evidence-based psychosocial approaches.
- Providing practical harm reduction advice and recovery-focused support.
- Supporting clients through both harm reduction and abstinence-based treatment pathways.
- Working collaboratively with healthcare, probation, housing, employment, and community services to deliver seamless, holistic care.
- Helping individuals prepare for release by building links with community services and promoting positive outcomes.
- Contributing to service targets, measuring outcomes, and maintaining accurate case records.
- Undertaking second signatory duties and oral swab testing where required (training provided).
We're Looking For Someone Who
- Is passionate about supporting people to achieve lasting recovery.
- Builds trust quickly and treats everyone with dignity, empathy, and respect.
- Can confidently manage a busy caseload while maintaining high-quality support.
- Has excellent communication and relationship-building skills.
- Enjoys working as part of a multidisciplinary team.
- Is proactive, resilient, and motivated to make a real difference every day.
- Can adapt to changing priorities and thrives in a dynamic environment.
- What You'll Need
- Experience working within drug and alcohol services, healthcare, mental health, criminal justice, or another related support setting.
- Experience carrying out assessments, care planning, and risk management.
- Confidence delivering one-to-one and group interventions.
- A good understanding of harm reduction and recovery-focused practice.
- Strong organisational, IT, and record-keeping skills.
- A collaborative approach and commitment to delivering outstanding client care.
- Flexibility to work occasional evenings or weekends when required.
- Willingness to travel to nearby services within the local cluster, with reasonable notice, to support continuity of care.