Recovery Practitioner
| Posting date: | 20 May 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £29,124 to £32,946 per year |
| Additional salary information: | including London Weighting where appropriate |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 08 June 2025 |
| Location: | Mitcham, London |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Via |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | JOB0190 |
Summary
Are you committed, organised and highly-motivated, with an in-depth knowledge and experience of the challenges affecting people with substance misuse and related health and wellbeing issues.
The Role
This is an exciting opportunity to hold a mixed caseload and support other tasks including assessment, duty and groups in a thriving service, making positive changes in people’s lives, through a non-judgmental, recovery-based approach that values the strengths and choices of those individuals.
Through joining Via you will receive a warm welcome, peer support, training, regular supervision and the chance to thrive in a lively and innovative service.
The main purpose of this role is to provide excellent quality of care to people who use our service accessing treatment for substance misuse and their complex needs, in partnership with our clinical team, counsellors and other professionals involved in client's care.
You will:
• be responsible for managing a caseload of clients, including prescribing.
• provide a good quality of interventions at varying stages of their recovery as well as developing and delivering a wide range of groups.
The duties are varied, and no two days will be the same. Duties may include supporting other areas of service delivery as well as helping to take part in a wide range of special interests and activities that support health and wellbeing such as smoking cessation and local events.
The Service
Launched in 2018, Via Merton in Mitcham is a fully-integrated substance misuse service, providing clinical and psychosocial interventions, operating from a main treatment hub, with additional satellites within the community. 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 Merton residents, irrespective of circumstance.
Location
This post will be based at the Via Merton in Mitcham Town Centre, CR4 2PF.
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 chat about the role please contact Agnieszka Froch, Team Leader via Agnieszka.Froch@viaorg.uk or 0300 303 4610.
The closing date for applications is Sunday 8 June at midnight.
Interviews are likely to take place on Wednesday 18 June.
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).
The Role
This is an exciting opportunity to hold a mixed caseload and support other tasks including assessment, duty and groups in a thriving service, making positive changes in people’s lives, through a non-judgmental, recovery-based approach that values the strengths and choices of those individuals.
Through joining Via you will receive a warm welcome, peer support, training, regular supervision and the chance to thrive in a lively and innovative service.
The main purpose of this role is to provide excellent quality of care to people who use our service accessing treatment for substance misuse and their complex needs, in partnership with our clinical team, counsellors and other professionals involved in client's care.
You will:
• be responsible for managing a caseload of clients, including prescribing.
• provide a good quality of interventions at varying stages of their recovery as well as developing and delivering a wide range of groups.
The duties are varied, and no two days will be the same. Duties may include supporting other areas of service delivery as well as helping to take part in a wide range of special interests and activities that support health and wellbeing such as smoking cessation and local events.
The Service
Launched in 2018, Via Merton in Mitcham is a fully-integrated substance misuse service, providing clinical and psychosocial interventions, operating from a main treatment hub, with additional satellites within the community. 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 Merton residents, irrespective of circumstance.
Location
This post will be based at the Via Merton in Mitcham Town Centre, CR4 2PF.
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 chat about the role please contact Agnieszka Froch, Team Leader via Agnieszka.Froch@viaorg.uk or 0300 303 4610.
The closing date for applications is Sunday 8 June at midnight.
Interviews are likely to take place on Wednesday 18 June.
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).
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