Recovery Champion in Kettering

Overview

Change Grow Liveare a charity dedicated to the belief that we can make a difference to our Service Users lives, offering support and respect in a safe environment, treating each user as an individual and working with them to find the right treatment and care options.

Our core values are‘Be open, be compassionate and be bold’and our team members apply these daily to achieve our mission ofhelping people change the direction of their lives, grow as individuals, and live life to its full potential.

Do you have lived experience of substance abuse?Would you like to use that experience to help and support others? If so, this could be the perfect opportunity for you.

We are looking for enthusiastic and friendly Recovery Champion to join our Corby team. The post-holder will work with service users initiating, building, and utilising recovery capital to move into long term sustained recovery.

This will be achieved by working with service users, supporting, and delivering pods or one to one intervention as required.

Where: Corby

Hours: Full-time, 37.5h per week

Contract Type: Permanent

Responsibilities

About the role:

• Work with service users initiating, building, and utilising recovery capital to move into long term sustained recovery.
• Promote visible recovery
• Initiate and maintain links with the recovery community and mutual aid
• Provide positive role model support to service users
• Be involved in promoting and ensuring service user involvement across the service
• Engage and re-engage service users into treatment
• Promote healthier lifestyles and increase service user choice
• Promote and support individuals into both abstinence based and medically assisted forms of recovery
• Reduce alcohol and drug related harm to the individual and wider community
• Engage with a comprehensive training programme
• Contribute to the overall performance of the service to ensure that targets are achieved

About you:

• Lived experience of drug or/and alcohol use
• Willingness to develop and demonstrate an understanding of safeguarding focusing on children and vulnerable adult’s procedures.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skillsalong withgood IT skills
• Be able to build relationships with individuals with multiple needs, whilst remaining empathetic and non-judgemental towardService Users
• Confident in working alone as well as part of a team
• Canremain calm under pressure
• Ableto travel asrequired, including where public transport is not available
• Work flexibly across all sites within an agreed number of hours to maintain the most appropriate level of service provision. This will include evening and weekend working.

What We Offer

• Enjoy a dedicated weekly Wellness Hour, access to our Wellness Hub, and a comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme to support your mental and emotional health.
• We’re committed to your development, with extensive training, funded learning, and pathways into senior or specialist roles.
• Benefit from transparent pay, a contributory pension scheme, and additional support through our wellbeing resources.
• Start with 25 days of annual leave plus bankholidays(pro rata), increasing to the maximum 30 days over five years of service.
• Join a supportive, values-led team where you’ll feel encouraged and valued from your very first day.
• Where possible, we’re open to discussing working patterns that help you maintain a healthy work–life balance.
• Enjoy discounts on shopping, cinema trips, holidays and more, along with our Refer a Friend scheme.

Please read attached Job Description for a more detailed out line of responsibilities and Person Specifications

A note about using AI in your application

AI can be areally helpfultool when putting together your application, and we're happy for you to use it. However,what we're most interested in is you.

We want to understand your experiences, achievements and strengths, so please make sure your application reflects your own story and clearly shows how you meet the essential criteria and the impact you've made in previous roles.

There's no need to write in a particular style. The strongest applications are those that are authentic, specific and clearly demonstrate your skills, experience and potential.We look forward to learning more about you.

Full-time hours at Change Grow Live are 37.5 hours per week. For part-time roles, the salary and payments will be pro rata based on contracted hours.

Salary Range (pro rata if part time)

CGL SPOT (20) (£26,296.03 - £26,296.03)

ILW / OLW /Fringe

N/A - Outside London Weighting Area

Closing Date

2/10/2026

This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at an enhanced level.