Women s Recovery Champion
Location: Southend on Sea
Salary: £26,000 per annum
Vacancy Type: Permanent, Full Time
Closing Date: 19th June 2026
An exciting opportunity to join a dynamic Recovery Support Team in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, working closely with the STARS recovery community. This is a full-time role (35 hours per week) where you’ll play a key part in supporting individuals on their recovery journey across the wider Southend area.
We are looking for an enthusiastic, empathetic, and motivated practitioner with a strong understanding of professional boundaries and ideally lived experience or knowledge of recovery and the local community.
You’ll work alongside the BRiC Coordinator and wider multi-agency partners to deliver person‑centred recovery support and help build strong pathways into and through recovery services.
What you’ll be doing
- Carrying a small caseload of recovery support clients
- Delivering 1:1 sessions, group work, and structured recovery interventions
- Facilitating welcome PODS and lived experience workshops
- Supporting recovery groups and service user involvement activities
- Working with partners to develop community recovery pathways
- Supporting assessments, care planning, and harm reduction approaches
- Helping clients access housing, benefits, training, and employment support
- Contributing to outcome‑focused targets and service improvement
What we’re looking for
- Passion for recovery‑focused, community‑based support
- Ability to work confidently in a multi‑agency environment
- Strong relationship‑building and motivational skills
- Understanding of harm reduction and abstinence‑based approaches
- Organised, reflective, and committed to professional development
Experience in recovery services or lived experience of recovery would be highly desirable.
Benefits
- Flexible working
- Training and development opportunities
- BHSF Cashback Scheme (optional)
- Season Ticket Loan Scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Crisis Loan Scheme
- Electric Car Scheme
- 3 x Wellbeing Days (pro rata'd for part time employees)
- Access to Blue Light Card
- 25 days (rising to 30 with length of service) Annual Leave plus Bank Holidays
- Contributory Pension Scheme Employer matched contributions of up to 6% in the first two years service and up to 9% thereafter
- Death in Service Payment (2x annual salary)
- Critical Illness Insurance (subject to qualifying criteria)
