Drug and Alcohol - Recovery Support Worker - HMP Styal in Wilmslow

An exciting opportunity has arisen to recruit a dedicated, enthusiastic, and resourceful Drug and Alcohol Support Worker to join our team. This role is based within a dynamic and challenging prison environment, working as part of Spectrum's prison-based Drug & Alcohol recovery-focused treatment model. The successful candidate will contribute to the delivery of high-quality support across the key elements of the service, including assessment, case management, psychosocial interventions, release planning, and throughcare.

This Support Worker role offers the opportunity to work closely with, and provide essential support to, a team of Recovery Coordinators within a busy and dynamic prison-based Drug & Alcohol Service. The post holder will contribute to the delivery of services that help individuals achieve their recovery goals, improve outcomes, and support successful reintegration into the community.

Under the guidance of the Drug & Alcohol Service Manager (Recovery), Senior Practitioners, and other managers, the Support Worker will work effectively and flexibly as part of the wider team to maintain high standards of service delivery. The role involves both direct work with service users and administrative/office-based tasks to support the smooth operation of the service. This includes assisting with HR processes, maintaining records, coordinating appointments, and other office duties as required.

The Support Worker will also work collaboratively with partner agencies to provide meaningful interventions that motivate and support service users throughout their individual recovery journeys. This position requires a strengths-based, trauma-informed, and recovery-oriented approach, recognising service users as active participants in their own health, wellbeing, and recovery, while also supporting the administrative and organisational functions that underpin effective service delivery.

About us: Spectrum Community Health CIC provides a range of award-winning healthcare services on behalf of the NHS, Local Authority Public Health services, and other partners across substance misuse, sexual health, and health and justice settings. As a not-for-profit social enterprise and Community Interest Company, our focus is centred on people - our patients, service users, staff and partners. We are building on our ambition to deliver the best in health and wellbeing on a values-driven ethos and to maintain the highest standards of patient care and service.

Job responsibilities include:

• Ability to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team, supporting colleagues and service delivery in a flexible and collaborative way.
• IT literacy, including the ability to use electronic case management systems and Microsoft Office applications.
• Good organisational and time-management skills, with the ability to maintain accurate records and meet deadlines.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to build positive relationships with service users and professionals.
• Previous experience in an administrative/office based role.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, including the ability to build rapport with vulnerable individuals.
• Experience collaborating with partner agencies and multidisciplinary teams.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.