Recovery Practitioner - Safeguarding

Overview

Do you have specialist safeguarding experience and a passion for supporting vulnerable individuals through recovery? Join us as a Recovery Practitioner, where your expertise will be central to protecting those at risk while helping them navigate their journey to better health and wellbeing.

The Role

This is an exciting opportunity to deliver excellent drug and alcohol services to those who use our services and their significant others, including family members, friends, and carers, to facilitate positive outcomes.

Responsibilities

• manage a caseload of safeguarding clients, providing those who use our services, as well as the full range of stakeholders, information relevant to treatment.
• provide a range of interventions, such as harm reduction, brief interventions or assessment, where required.
• be actively involved in co-ordinating and participating in a multi-agency approach to those who use our services, liaising with a variety of partner agencies and safeguarding professionals.
• work collaboratively with colleagues and key stakeholders across multi-disciplinary teams, ensuring adherence to all Via policies and safeguarding principles.
• provide excellent quality of care to people who use our service accessing treatment for substance use and their complex needs, in partnership with our clinical team, counsellors and other professionals involved in client\\\’s care.
• have an in-depth knowledge and experience of the challenges affecting people with substance use and related health and wellbeing issues.

No two days are the same in this varied role, where you’ll support different areas of service delivery and get involved in a range of health and wellbeing activities, from smoking cessation to local community events.

Working as part of a dynamic team you will be responsible for managing a caseload of clients, to include prescribing, providing a good quality of interventions at varying stages of their recovery as well as developing and delivering a wide range of groups.

Through joining Via you will receive a warm welcome, peer support, training, regular supervision and the chance to thrive in a lively and innovative service.

The Service

Adult Drug and Alcohol Services across Gloucestershire transferred to Via on 1st April 2024. The role is part of Via’s structure and provides a great opportunity to build on existing service strengths, drive new developments and make a positive impact as part of this new contract.

Benefits

To see the generous range of benefits we offer at Via including 30 days annual leave for all new starters, our health and wellbeing initiatives, financial perks and development opportunities – visit our Benefits Package

Diversity and Inclusion

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Via we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

How to Apply

For an informal chat about the role please contact Chelsea Sims, Safeguarding Team Manager via Chelsea.sims@viaorg.uk

Application Timeline

The closing date for applications is Wednesday 24 September at midnight. Interviews are likely to take place on week commencing 6 October.

Notes

All our applications are sifted by humans. Please send us applications that reflect your own knowledge experience and values and not applications that have been generated by artificial intelligence (AI).