Substance Misuse Recovery Worker

**Based in the community across South and West Yorkshire Status**: Fixed-term for 12 months Salary: Band 5, £29,553 - £36,166, per annum, dependent on experience Hours: Full-time, 37.5 hours per week ________________________________________ Working in the community as part of NHS Integrated Veterans Mental Health Service (Op Courage) in South & West Yorkshire with travel required and regular attendance at an NHS Hub. Hub is based Yeadon, Leeds. About Us: Combat Stress is the UK's leading mental health charity for veterans. For over a century we've been helping former servicemen and women deal with issues like post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety and depression.

Today we provide specialist treatment and support for veterans from every service and conflict, focusing on those with complex mental health issues related to their military service. We provide a range of community, outpatient and residential mental health services to veterans with complex mental health problems. We provide services in-person, and via phone and online. About the role: This is a new and exciting position for a Substance Misuse Recovery Worker to join Combat Stress and work alongside the NHS as part of Op Courage in the South and West Yorkshire region of North England.

For a Substance Misuse Recovery Worker, an appointment working with our Armed Forces veterans would be extremely rewarding. Our veterans have served in every campaign since the First World War and for over a hundred years our team has been there to support them with their mental health needs. You will work with a service user group who have a real motivation to make positive changes to their lives and your experience, compassion and focus on recovery will help achieve this. Experience of working with military and veteran populations would be welcome but it is not essential.

As a healthcare environment, and for the health and wellbeing of our staff, veterans and visitors, we encourage everyone at Combat Stress especially professionals that are veteran facing to take up the offer to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 What we offer: You will work within a reputable charity that is constantly evolving to meet the needs of our veterans, that has a fantastic cause and a committed follower base. Benefits:

- 27 days paid holiday plus bank holidays. After 5 years continuous service, this will increase to 30 days paid holiday plus bank holidays and after 10 years continuous service, this will increase to 33 days paid holiday plus bank holidays
- Competitive stakeholder pension scheme - contributions matched up to 11% of salary
- Discount shopping vouchers
- Cycle to work scheme
- Access to the Employee Assistance Programme
- Flexible working
- Access to Blue Light Card scheme
- Death in Service Scheme Plus many more. ________________________________________ Closing date: 30 June 2024 Interview date: TBC Please note, we reserve the right to close this advert early, should we receive a sufficient amount of applicants ________________________________________