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Recovery & Wellbeing Practitioner
| Posting date: | 17 February 2025 |
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| Salary: | £26,940 to £30,762 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 16 March 2025 |
| Location: | Ellesmere Port, Cheshire |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Via |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | JOB0136 |
Summary
Come and support adults in their recovery journeys with our Ellesmere Port Drug and Alcohol Service, delivering impactful care through 1:1 sessions and group programs.
The Role
This rewarding and exciting role will be key in ensuring that effective, efficient and appropriate care is planned and managed well for people and that this care achieves a positive impact to the recovery of the individual.
Based within the Ellesmere Port integrated Drug and Alcohol Service, your role will support adults who use our service within the area to achieve their recovery journey goals, via 1:1s and structured groupwork programme. Your responsibilities will include:
• Delivering excellent drug and alcohol services to people and their significant others, including family members friends and carers, to facilitate positive outcomes.
• Having experience in working within substance misuse services, and delivering structured treatment groups.
• Managing a case load and co-ordinate and deliver assessment and evidence-based interventions (brief and structured), recovery planning and aftercare planning.
• Working collaboratively with colleagues and key stakeholder across multi-disciplinary teams, ensuring adherence with all Via policies and Safeguarding principles.
• Delivering harm reduction advice, psychosocial interventions, needle & syringe exchanges, Blood borne virus testing and interventions, drug testing and overdose prevention advice.
An empathetic and non-judgmental approach is imperative, as this role involves working with a wide range of challenging issues and behaviours. Good time management and team working skills are essential in this fast-paced service.
The Service
Cheshire West and Chester is a fully integrated recovery service delivered by Via We offer free and confidential support for individuals affected by drug and alcohol problems and their families and carers. We believe with the right support; people can make long-lasting transformations in their lives to improve their health and wellbeing.
Location
Based at Unity House, 4 York Road Ellesmere Port, CH65 0DB.
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
For an informal discussion about the position, or if you would like to visit the service, please contact Jane Murphy, Service Manager via Jane.Murphy@viaorg.uk
The closing date for applications is Sunday 16 March at midnight.
You will need to be available for interview on Monday 24 March.
The Role
This rewarding and exciting role will be key in ensuring that effective, efficient and appropriate care is planned and managed well for people and that this care achieves a positive impact to the recovery of the individual.
Based within the Ellesmere Port integrated Drug and Alcohol Service, your role will support adults who use our service within the area to achieve their recovery journey goals, via 1:1s and structured groupwork programme. Your responsibilities will include:
• Delivering excellent drug and alcohol services to people and their significant others, including family members friends and carers, to facilitate positive outcomes.
• Having experience in working within substance misuse services, and delivering structured treatment groups.
• Managing a case load and co-ordinate and deliver assessment and evidence-based interventions (brief and structured), recovery planning and aftercare planning.
• Working collaboratively with colleagues and key stakeholder across multi-disciplinary teams, ensuring adherence with all Via policies and Safeguarding principles.
• Delivering harm reduction advice, psychosocial interventions, needle & syringe exchanges, Blood borne virus testing and interventions, drug testing and overdose prevention advice.
An empathetic and non-judgmental approach is imperative, as this role involves working with a wide range of challenging issues and behaviours. Good time management and team working skills are essential in this fast-paced service.
The Service
Cheshire West and Chester is a fully integrated recovery service delivered by Via We offer free and confidential support for individuals affected by drug and alcohol problems and their families and carers. We believe with the right support; people can make long-lasting transformations in their lives to improve their health and wellbeing.
Location
Based at Unity House, 4 York Road Ellesmere Port, CH65 0DB.
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
For an informal discussion about the position, or if you would like to visit the service, please contact Jane Murphy, Service Manager via Jane.Murphy@viaorg.uk
The closing date for applications is Sunday 16 March at midnight.
You will need to be available for interview on Monday 24 March.
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