Recovery Practitioner

**Job Reference**

JOB00000425

**Location**

Redbridge

**Salary**

£26,624 - £30,446 inclusive of London Weighting where appropriate

**Vacancy Type**

Permanent/Full Time

**Working Hours**

37.5 hours per week

**Application Deadline**

Friday, December 8, 2023

**Job Summary**

**Would you like to help improve the health and wellbeing of those with drug and alcohol issues?**

**The Role**

The post arises from additional OHID funding. The post holder will be a dynamic, driven individual who is committed to supporting service users in the substance misuse community and their associated needs.

The community engagement practitioner will:

- support with engaging the community and delivering training on brief screening, harm reduction and brief advice.
- work alongside partner agencies and key stakeholders and support with the firming up of referral pathways and joint working initiatives.
- carry a caseload and work with clients who are hard to reach, non-engaging and requiring reengagement and/or home visits.

**The Service**

Via Redbridge is an established, integrated community service delivered across several provisions in the Borough. The service consists of both clinical and psychosocial elements and is CQC registered to provide a range of clinical interventions including BBV and health interventions, OST, and community detox, as well as having family and carers and service user involvement provision.

Together we offer a wide range of pharmacological, psychosocial, recovery-orientated, health focused and inpatient interventions that support individuals and their families who wish to receive advice, assessment, and treatment for their drug and/ or alcohol related needs.

Via Redbridge is an established community service that is performing well and highly functioning. We are a friendly team of professionals who support each other. The service operates Mon
- Fri, our core hours 9am to 5pm but there are times where we might need to work occasional evenings or weekends.

**Location**

The role is predominantly based in Ilford Chambers, but at times may involve travel to external meetings and satellites within the borough, and to other Via locations as needed.

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

**Interviews are likely to take place on 13 December 2023.**

Via welcomes enquiries from everyone, and we value diversity in our workplace. Our commitment to promoting diversity and developing a workplace environment where all staff are treated with dignity and respect is central to our recruitment process.