Key Information
- Position: Recovery Motivator
- Contract: Part-time
- Salary: £10,582 per annum
- Location: Kirklees
- Hours per week: 15
- Application closing date: 16/06/2026
About the Role
As a Recovery Motivator, you will work across the contract to support those starting their recovery journey. You will engage with people at the point of assessment to reduce disengagement and use your skills and experience to promote wellbeing and harm reduction.
Emerging Futures, in partnership with CGL, delivers the substance misuse contract across Kirklees. This new contract will ensure a person‑centred, trauma‑informed approach to treatment and support.
You will be integrated within the CGL Access & Engagement Team and will need excellent communication skills to enable connections with individuals, allowing conversations around support and accessible recovery options for people who are between triage and treatment. You will contribute to the service to ensure that service users receive high‑quality services that adhere to the best‑practice guidelines, policies, and ethos of Emerging Futures.
This role is suitable for those undertaking permitted work whilst receiving benefits.
Responsibilities
- Support individuals at the start of their recovery journey.
- Engage with clients to reduce disengagement and promote wellbeing.
- Facilitate conversations around support and recovery options between triage and treatment.
- Contribute to the delivery of high‑quality services in line with best‑practice guidelines.
- Work collaboratively within the CGL Access & Engagement Team.
About you – Qualifications
- Experience of supporting individuals to initiate and sustain their own wellbeing in the community.
- Experience of supporting individuals to initiate and sustain behaviour change that increases safety and wellbeing.
- Established in your own recovery, if relevant.
- Evidence of client caseload management.
- Coaching or counselling qualification (desirable).
- Evidence of working in a cooperative partnership approach (desirable).
- Completed Emerging Futures accredited 5‑day Recovery Coach training (desirable).
