Drug and Alcohol Recovery Worker

2 days ago

Bristol, United Kingdom Developing Health and Independence Full time

**Salary**: £23,194-£27,852 per annum depending on experience

Hours: Full time 37.5 hours per week

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: Bristol

Additional Information: You will have the opportunity to work flexibly between home and DHI offices and as an employee of DHI, you will have access to our Employee Assistance Programme, Cycle Scheme, 26-31 days annual leave (service related), company pension scheme, charity worker discounts and monthly reflective practice.

**The Role**:
**The Role**

DHI are recruiting a Drug and Alcohol Recovery Worker to support clients within the Central Bristol area who are on one of our drug and alcohol recovery programmes. We are looking for people who can bring creativity and enthusiasm to supporting clients, helping them to make positive changes in their lives.

You will be joining an experienced Drug Engagement Team that works hard to support each other, and to deliver an exceptional service to our clients

As a Drug and Alcohol Recovery Worker you will have the opportunity to work flexibly between home and DHI offices to support clients. The role is varied and as interesting and requires you to carry out needs assessments and risk assessments alongside other tasks.

A proportion of the post will be to assess and initiate Opiate Substitute Therapy medication liaising with the clients, GP surgeries and dispensing pharmacies as required. (Training will be provided if required)

**About You**

At DHI we highly value transferable skills and life experience. If you have good organisational skills, can manage relationships, solve problems, and are resilient, adaptable and flexible then we would love to hear from you.

**Our Values**

We are an award winning charity that challenges social exclusion by supporting people to achieve their potential and our values underpin this.

If you share DHI’s values of flexibility, stimulation, self
- direction and zest for life, then we encourage you to apply.

We look forward to exploring these with you during the interview process should you be successful at the shortlisting stage.

**What We Offer**

We offer on the job support and mentoring within the team for this role, as well as training with regard to drug and alcohol related topics that are relevant to the post.

As an employee of DHI, you will have also access to our Employee Assistance Programme, our Cycle Scheme, 26-31 days (service related) leave and company pension scheme.

**Next Steps**

If you’d like to know more about the role contact: Rachael Bollan to arrange an informal discussion.

**How to Apply**:
Your covering letter should include the following three areas, each with a maximum of 500 words, using the following three bullets as your headers:

- Highlight how your experience matches the Essential Criteria
- State how you broadly meet the Attributes within the Person Specification
- Tell us how you meet our Values

We strongly encourage you to complete our Equality & Diversity monitoring form to help us achieve a diverse workforce. The form does not form part of the selection process. Please also tell us where you found the role.

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