Job Reference JOB0180 Location Chester Salary £26,940 - £30,762 per annum (FTE) - pro rata Vacancy Type Permanent/Part Time Working Hours 30 hours per week Application Deadline Sunday, May 25, 2025 Job Summary
Empower Change and Foster Community Wellness as a Recovery & Wellbeing Practitioner in Chester!
The Role
This rewarding and exciting role will be key in ensuring that effective, efficient and appropriate care is planned and managed well for people and that this care achieves a positive impact to the recovery of the individual.
Based within the Chester integrated Drug and Alcohol Service, your role will support adults who use our service within the area to achieve their recovery journey goals, via 1:1s and structured groupwork programme. Your responsibilities will include:
* delivering excellent drug and alcohol services to people and their significant others, including family members friends and carers, to facilitate positive outcomes.
* having experience in working within substance misuse services.
* managing a case load and co-ordinate and deliver assessment and evidence-based interventions (brief and structured), recovery planning and aftercare planning and risk assessments.
* having experience of delivering structured treatment groups.
* working collaboratively with colleagues and key stakeholder across multi-disciplinary teams, ensuring adherence with all Via policies and Safeguarding principles.
* delivering harm reduction advice, psychosocial interventions, needle & syringe exchanges, Blood borne virus testing and interventions, drug testing and overdose prevention advice.
An empathetic and non-judgmental approach is imperative, as this role involves working with a wide range of challenging issues and behaviours. Good time management and team working skills are essential in this fast-paced service.
The Service
Cheshire West and Chester is a fully integrated recovery service delivered by Via We offer free and confidential support for individuals affected by drug and alcohol problems and their families and carers. We believe with the right support; people can make long-lasting transformations in their lives to improve their health and wellbeing.
Location
Based at Aqua House, 51 Boughton, Chester, CH3 5AF.
This is a part-time vacancy for 30 hours.
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 Andy Cornish, Hub Manager via Andy.Cornish@viaorg.uk
The closing date for applications is Sunday 25 May at midnight.
You will need to be available for Interview on Friday 30 May.
All our applications are sifted by humans. Please send us applications that reflect your own knowledge, experience and values and not applications that have been generated by artificial intelligence (AI).
We accept applications via https://www.viaorg.uk/work-at-via/career-paths/ using our short application form, and your CV. For guidance on how to complete the application visit https://www.viaorg.uk/work-at-via/how-to-apply/. 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.
Please email people@viaorg.uk if you have any recruitment enquiries or if you require this documentation in an accessible format.
Job Profile JD Recovery Practitioner
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