Psychosocial Intervention Recovery Worker in Chelmsford

Location – Chelmsford

Hours – 37.5 hours per week

Working Pattern – Monday – Friday

Salary – £27,000 per annum

Closing date – 6th May 2026

Open Road provides drug and alcohol treatment services and offender support services across Essex & Kent, including a range of structured interventions that deliver mentoring, advice and relapse prevention programmes. Accredited with Investing In Volunteers and Investors in People, our mission is to empower a diverse range of individuals, families and communities to lead healthy and meaningful lives, free from addiction, offending behaviour and disadvantage, to ensure healthier, happier lifestyles.

Benefits of Working for Open Road:

• Full job specific training including drug & alcohol, case and risk management, Trauma Informed Practice and Motivational Interviewing.
• Access to funding for further development training in many areas including a pathway into management.
• Competitive salary plus regular salary reviews.
• Flexible working or hybrid homeworking policy following successful completion of probation for most roles.
• 25 days per year AL plus Bank Holidays, and you can take an additional day off for your birthday!
• Access to the L&G Health App for services including a GP service, mental health support and wellbeing services.
• Pension and Life Assurance – Details of our Royal London scheme are available, as well as our Death in Service benefit which is x2 salary.

What is the role?

The Psychosocial Intervention Worker (Drugs) will be part of the drug treatment and recovery service, delivering low & high-intensity, structured psychosocial interventions to adults affected by drug use. The post holder will manage a targeted caseload and deliver evidence-based one-to-one and group psychosocial interventions, in line with agreed treatment protocols and pathways. The role includes overseeing and supporting volunteer counsellors, contributing to a psychologically informed, recovery-focused and harm reduction-based service, and working collaboratively with colleagues and partner agencies to improve engagement, retention and treatment outcomes.

A day in the life:

• You will be delivering a high-quality, structured psychosocial interventions to individuals and groups, using evidence-based approaches such as Motivational Interviewing, CBT-informed techniques, relapse prevention and harm reduction.
• Facilitate engaging, inclusive group programmes that support behaviour change and recovery, including psychoeducational sessions and pathways into detox and residential rehabilitation.
• Manage a caseload of clients with complex needs, completing assessments, risk management and recovery-focused care planning.
• Work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams to coordinate care and support access to wider services such as housing, employment and peer support.
• Provide guidance and day‑to‑day support to volunteer counsellors and facilitators, contributing to their development while ensuring safe and effective service delivery.

What you need:

• Ability to facilitate structured group interventions, with evidence of relevant training, supervised practice, or transferable experience.
• Able to demonstrate the skills to deliver structured psychosocial or therapeutic interventions to adults affected by drug use – qualification on CBT, MI.
• Accomplished written and verbal communications skills with a high degree of personal IT competency.
• Excellent time management skills, and an ability to work on own initiative, prioritising accordingly.
• Ability to liaise and work in partnership with a wide range of professional and agencies to support clients engagement.
• Excellent understanding of professional boundaries, safeguarding and risk management.

We welcome applications from candidates seeking flexible working. Due to the client-facing and service delivery requirements of this role, regular on-site presence will be required. Flexible working requests will be considered on a case-by-case basis, in line with business needs. This position is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service check at enhanced level.