Recovery Practitioner

Would you like to join us in supporting those affected by drug and alcohol issues to improve their health and wellbeing?

The Role

Based within the core West Berkshire integrated Drug and Alcohol Service, this Recovery Practitioner role will support adult service users within the area to achieve their recovery journey goals, via 1:1s and structured groupwork packages.

The role will involve:

• To deliver excellent drug and alcohol services to service users and their significant others, including family members, friends, and carers, to facilitate positive outcomes.
• To manage a case load and coordinate and deliver assessment and evidence-based interventions (brief and structured), recovery planning, and aftercare planning.
• To work collaboratively with colleagues and key stakeholders across multi-disciplinary teams, ensuring adherence with all VIA policies and Safeguarding principles.

The core hours of this role will be Monday - Friday 9am until 5pm, but there will be some occasional out of hours work which would be considered on a rota basis.

Location

1 Station Road, Newbury, RG14 7LP
(the role may also involve some outreach across the county).

Benefits

We offer a generous range of benefits, including 30 days annual leave for all new starters, health and wellbeing initiatives, financial perks, and development opportunities.

For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Joanne Stevenson, Team Leader on .

How to Apply

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).

Diversity and Inclusion

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.

Safeguarding

Appointment to all our posts is subject to satisfactory completion of our safeguarding checks, including DBS, and we follow safer recruiting principles.

Please email if you have any recruitment enquiries or if you require this documentation in an accessible format.