Outreach Practitioner - CHPSS
| Posting date: | 11 July 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £26,940 to £30,762 per year |
| Additional salary information: | (FTE) pro-rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 20 July 2025 |
| Location: | Gloucester, Gloucestershire |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Via |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | JOB0218 |
Summary
Are you passionate about making a real difference in the lives of people facing homelessness, substance use, and mental health challenges?
The Role
This is an exciting opportunity to hold a small complex case load working with those who may be experiencing homelessness, with substance misuse, alcohol and mental health difficulties as part of a multi-disciplinary team. Making positive changes in peoples’ 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 are experiencing homelessness as well as substance misuse and mental health difficulties and will be using our service to access treatment for substance use and their complex needs, in partnership with our clinical team, counsellors and other professionals involved in service user care.
You will have an in-depth knowledge and experience of the challenges affecting people with substance use and related health and wellbeing issues.
Working as part of a dynamic team you will be responsible for managing a caseload of people, to include prescribing, providing 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.
Please note this position is subject to enhanced DBS checks.
As well as a rewarding role and a diverse and inclusive team environment, check out our excellent benefits as a further reason to join our team!
The Service
Adult Drug and Alcohol Services across Gloucestershire transferred to Via on 1st April 2024. The role is partnership based (CHPSS Team) and provides a great opportunity to build on existing service strengths, drive new developments and make a positive impact as part of this new contract.
Location
This is a county wide role, but your base will be the Rikanel Centre and Via hub in Gloucester, with travel to other locations as required.
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
This is a permanent, part-time vacancy for 17.5 hours per week, working pattern negotiable.
For an informal chat about the role please contact Jenni Whale, In Reach Team Leader via Jenni.Whale@viaorg.uk
The closing date for applications is 20 July at midnight.
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 small complex case load working with those who may be experiencing homelessness, with substance misuse, alcohol and mental health difficulties as part of a multi-disciplinary team. Making positive changes in peoples’ 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 are experiencing homelessness as well as substance misuse and mental health difficulties and will be using our service to access treatment for substance use and their complex needs, in partnership with our clinical team, counsellors and other professionals involved in service user care.
You will have an in-depth knowledge and experience of the challenges affecting people with substance use and related health and wellbeing issues.
Working as part of a dynamic team you will be responsible for managing a caseload of people, to include prescribing, providing 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.
Please note this position is subject to enhanced DBS checks.
As well as a rewarding role and a diverse and inclusive team environment, check out our excellent benefits as a further reason to join our team!
The Service
Adult Drug and Alcohol Services across Gloucestershire transferred to Via on 1st April 2024. The role is partnership based (CHPSS Team) and provides a great opportunity to build on existing service strengths, drive new developments and make a positive impact as part of this new contract.
Location
This is a county wide role, but your base will be the Rikanel Centre and Via hub in Gloucester, with travel to other locations as required.
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
This is a permanent, part-time vacancy for 17.5 hours per week, working pattern negotiable.
For an informal chat about the role please contact Jenni Whale, In Reach Team Leader via Jenni.Whale@viaorg.uk
The closing date for applications is 20 July at midnight.
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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