Community Alcohol Recovery Worker

2 weeks ago


Portsmouth, United Kingdom The Society of St James Full time

**Community Alcohol Recovery Worker**

**37 hours per week, Permanent**

**Queen Alexandra Hospital and Community Setting**

**Salary Scale: 22-26 (£24,774 - £28,057)**

**About us**

This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic Charity and Housing Association. The Society of St James (SSJ) has been working in Hampshire for over 40 years, delivering high impact, person-centred, accommodation services to adults and young people experiencing homelessness, problematic substance use and mental health problems. We believe that every person is of worth and we are prepared to take risks to house and support the most at risk and socially excluded members of society.

**Service description**

The SSJ Recovery Hub offers a wide range of interventions including one to ones, therapeutic group work, needle exchange and prescribing interventions to people recovering from problems with drugs and alcohol who are living in Portsmouth. This post will focus on alcohol related hospital admissions to target individuals during their stay in hospital to offer assessment and ongoing recovery work in the community. This work may often be lone working.

**The Role**

You will work in a person-centred approach to support individuals who want to make changes to their lives by supporting them to access interventions that are important to them. Good risk management skills are essential, as well as a strong ability to build meaningful relationships with our service users. This will enable SSJ to deliver our purpose to create engaging opportunities for growth and development for employees and our service user’s alike.

The role will be based primarily at Queen Alexandra Hospital in Cosham, but the work will involve visiting clients in other services or in their own homes, working closely alongside partner agencies such as primary health providers, housing services, recovery services and social care. This will be on a need’s basis, as appropriate, and you will work within a flexible 37 hour working week including evening and some weekend work.

**To Apply**:
**Interview Date: Wednesday 20th March 2024**

**If you have any questions about this role please contact Sally Ruff or Tom O’Brien at the Recovery Hub on 023 9229 4573.**

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £24,774.00-£28,057.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Additional leave
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee discount
- Health & wellbeing programme

Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 08/03/2024



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