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Trainee Recovery Practitioner

Job details
Posting date: 30 January 2025
Salary: £25,484 per year
Additional salary information: including London Weighting, where appropriate
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 16 February 2025
Location: Brent Cross, North West London
Remote working: On-site only
Company: Via
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: JOB0120

Summary

Are you someone looking to embark on a career in substance misuse treatment with a passion for helping people? If you're looking to launch a rewarding career with no prior experience, we have an exciting opportunity for you!

The Role
This trainee practitioner role will be supported under training and supervision throughout their role in providing those who use our services with one-to-one support to motivate and facilitate their engagement in treatment. This role will be working primarily with opiate using people.

The Service
Via Brent, New Beginnings is a fully integrated substance misuse service, providing psychosocial and clinical interventions in partnership with Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust (CNWL). The service is based across 2 hubs; Cobbold Road and the Willesden Centre for Health. The team actively promotes recovery and works with individuals that are directly and indirectly affected by substance misuse, working with the local community to improve the health, wellbeing and functioning of Brent residents, irrespective of circumstance.

Location
The first 2 months of this post will be situated at our Cobbold Road site (NW10 9SU), before moving to the service’s Willesden Hub at the Willesden Centre for Health.

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

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Via we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

For an informal chat about the role please contact Zareena Mody, Stabilisation Team Manager via Zareena.Mody@viaorg.uk

The closing date for applications is Sunday 16 February at midnight.

Interviews are likely to take place week commencing 24 February.

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Disability Confident
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