Recovery Practitioner

Job Summary

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

The Role

Working as part of a wider flexible team, you will cover a geographical area (more detail is below) supporting service delivery for short to medium time periods, as and when required.

The role will be providing cover across our London, and surrounding areas, services – as such a willingness and ability to travel across the Greater London, and surrounding areas is essential. We will aim to focus your work in the following areas:

• West & Central London & surrounding areas,

• East & Central London & surrounding areas,

• North & Central London & surrounding areas,

• South & Central London & surrounding areas.

As such please state your geographical preference on your application. While we will always prioritise accommodating your geographical preferences, you may be asked to work in other areas.

Though the roles are flexible, we can provide you with the security of a permanent position with an enhanced salary and a generous benefits package – visit our Benefits Package.

You will also receive a comprehensive and robust induction package with access to further ongoing training and professional development opportunities. All reasonable travel expenses will be reimbursed.

The Service

We are looking for highly skilled and experienced staff to support flexible service delivery, as part of the Via - FLEX Team. FLEX stands for:

• F – Fixed role not a fixed work base

• L – Locations, locations, locations – go where you are need

• E – Experience essential, along with your expert skills and knowledge

• X – Xtra capacity for teams that need extra support.

As part of our important work, we are developing an exciting and established team to work flexibly and responsively across our services, providing exceptional support and structured interventions to the people we help.

The Via - FLEX Team has multiple elements including a substantive team (permanent posts), which will work across a range of services fulfilling their placement needs to provide additional capacity and support when required.

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

For an informal chat about the role please contact Meera Callender, Team Leader via or Paul Dryland, Team Leader, via

The closing date for applications is Sunday 14 July at midnight.

Interviews are likely to take place on Monday 22 July, this is to be confirmed.

We only accept applications via using our application form, sorry we don’t accept CVs. For guidance on how to complete the application visit . Please submit your application as soon as possible as we may close adverts at any time if we receive a sufficient number of applications.

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.

We’re a Disability Confident Employer and are committed to the employment and career development of disabled people. We offer an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for our jobs, please confirm in the personal statement part of our application form that you are applying under this scheme.

Appointment to all our posts are subject to satisfactory completion of our safeguarding checks including DBS and we follow safer recruiting principles.