Job summary
- Main area
- Drug and Alcohol Recovery Worker
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 36 hours per week (Occasional weekend and evening working)
- Job ref
- 301-SB-26-7923828
- Employer
- Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust - Inclusion Services
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Inclusion Eastleigh
- Town
- Eastleigh
- Salary
- £32,073 - £39,043 Per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/05/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Recovery Worker
NHS AfC: Band 5
Job overview
This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship. If it is identified that you require sponsorship to undertake this role your application may be withdrawn
Are you committed to making a positive change and empowering service users to achieve a better quality of life?
We have an exciting opportunity for a passionate and caring individual to join our teams within Inclusion Recovery Hampshire, a drug and alcohol treatment and support service for individuals impacted by their own or someone else’s use of alcohol or drugs.
In this role, you will manage your own caseload and deliver high-quality, person-centred care throughout each service user’s treatment and recovery journey. This will include completing assessments, care planning, delivering a range of interventions, and supporting individuals to achieve their recovery goals from referral through to discharge.
You will work as part of a dedicated, multi-disciplinary team, alongside prescribers and other professionals, to provide health support including blood-borne virus (BBV) testing clinics. You will embrace a recovery-focused approach and ensure all records and documentation are accurate, timely, and up to date.
We welcome applications from individuals with an interest in, and experience of, working within the drug and alcohol field.
When completing your application, please clearly demonstrate how you meet the essential and desirable criteria listed below.
Shortlisting will be based on this information.
Main duties of the job
Recovery Worker (working 36 hours per week) at Inclusion Recovery Hampshire’s Eastleigh Service.
Everyone should feel comfortable getting the support they need for issues relating to drugs and alcohol and as a Recovery Worker, you will have a duty of care to those in need, providing high quality, inclusive and non-judgemental support. You will be motivated to support service users to develop the social networks and skills that they require to develop positive coping mechanisms, to guide them towards reintegrating successfully into the wider community.
Working for our organisation
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the Job Description and Person Specification for further details, a summary is below:
- Be responsible for maintaining a full caseload of complex clients and supporting them to move forward in their recovery.
- To accept referrals, assess need and make appropriate recommendations as part as a robust duty system.
- Provide harm reduction advice, information and support with an emphasis on safer drug and alcohol use, safer sex, HIV, Hepatitis A, B and C and other blood borne viruses (BBVs).
- To carry out comprehensive assessments, construct care packages with multi-disciplinary colleagues where required, review care plans in a structured format and manage onward referral.
- To provide a range of structured psychosocial interventions including CBT-based brief solution-focused therapy, motivational enhancement techniques, and create and facilitate group work interventions.
- To make domiciliary visits consistent with need, particularly for service users with disabilities and to those with family responsibilities.
- To provide a needle exchange service.
Liaison Responsibilities:
- To develop and sustain links with multi-disciplinary services including statutory and non-statutory providers of drug and alcohol services, criminal justice services and providers of wrap around services.
- To develop a network of contacts with relevant agencies to promote service accessibility for the client group
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience in drug and alcohol or related field
Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent communication skills
Desirable criteria
- A commitment to, and understanding of, harm reduction & recovery approaches when working with people who use Drug and Alcohol
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Accredited Drug and Alcohol Practitioner, or a willingness to work towards accreditation during employment with Inclusion
Desirable criteria
- Foundation Degree / HNC in related field which may include counselling, social work, nursing, psychology, human resources, social studies
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dean Clark
- Job title
- SMS Recovery Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 1240103
- Additional information
- If you would like to know more and find out whether joining our dedicated team is for you then please get in touch with Dean Clark as we would love to hear from you.**** We do not accept CVs. Applications will only be considered if made via the website.********This vacancy may close early if a sufficient number of applications are received.****
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