Criminal Justice & Outreach Practitioner - Dependency & Recovery
| Posting date: | 27 August 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £26,940 to £30,762 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 21 September 2025 |
| Location: | Chester, Cheshire |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Via |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | JOB0245 |
Summary
Work alongside probation and health professionals to deliver integrated support that transforms lives and reduces reoffending.
The Role
Experience of working within substance misuse and criminal justice knowledge or a related Health and Social Care setting is essential. The successful candidates must be committed, resourceful and highly motivated to engage people who use our services and promote recovery through their daily practice.
This role will be co-located within probation offices as part of Dependency and Recovery to improve continuity of care upon release from prison, to case manage clients on probation alongside the Probation Practitioners. The role will require the post holder to assess the needs of those who use our services, deliver effective interventions, complete detailed reports, and work closely with our criminal justice partner agencies, clinical team and other partner agencies.
Responsibilities will include the following:
• Contact, assess, refer and support drug and alcohol users in criminal justice settings (including Court, prisons, & probation offices), treatment agencies and other appropriate settings.
• Conduct assessments for clients, including Alcohol Treatment Requirement (ATR) and Drugs Rehabilitation Requirements (DRR) assessments.
• Care planning and risk assessment.
• Caseload management of Criminal justice clients.
• Deliver evidence-based psychosocial one-to-one interventions.
• Experience of delivering structured treatment group programmes.
• Deliver harm reduction advice, guidance and education including through assertive outreach, needle & syringe programme delivery, brief and extended recovery interventions, blood borne virus intervention, overdose prevention including naloxone programmes.
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
Aqua House, The Boughton Centre, 51 Boughton, Chester CH3 5AF.
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 Jane Murphy, Service Manager via Jane.Murphy@viaorg.uk
The closing date for applications is Sunday 21 September at midnight.
Interviews are likely to take place week commencing 22 September.
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
Experience of working within substance misuse and criminal justice knowledge or a related Health and Social Care setting is essential. The successful candidates must be committed, resourceful and highly motivated to engage people who use our services and promote recovery through their daily practice.
This role will be co-located within probation offices as part of Dependency and Recovery to improve continuity of care upon release from prison, to case manage clients on probation alongside the Probation Practitioners. The role will require the post holder to assess the needs of those who use our services, deliver effective interventions, complete detailed reports, and work closely with our criminal justice partner agencies, clinical team and other partner agencies.
Responsibilities will include the following:
• Contact, assess, refer and support drug and alcohol users in criminal justice settings (including Court, prisons, & probation offices), treatment agencies and other appropriate settings.
• Conduct assessments for clients, including Alcohol Treatment Requirement (ATR) and Drugs Rehabilitation Requirements (DRR) assessments.
• Care planning and risk assessment.
• Caseload management of Criminal justice clients.
• Deliver evidence-based psychosocial one-to-one interventions.
• Experience of delivering structured treatment group programmes.
• Deliver harm reduction advice, guidance and education including through assertive outreach, needle & syringe programme delivery, brief and extended recovery interventions, blood borne virus intervention, overdose prevention including naloxone programmes.
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
Aqua House, The Boughton Centre, 51 Boughton, Chester CH3 5AF.
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 Jane Murphy, Service Manager via Jane.Murphy@viaorg.uk
The closing date for applications is Sunday 21 September at midnight.
Interviews are likely to take place week commencing 22 September.
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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