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Job Summary
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Are you committed to making a positive change and empowering service users to achieve a better quality of life? We have an exciting opportunity for a passionate and caring individual to join our teams within Inclusion Recovery Hampshire, a drug and alcohol treatment and support service for individuals impacted by their own or someone else’s use of alcohol or drugs.
In this role, you will utilise your expertise in providing a remarkable service and care to your own caseload of service users. You will offer a range of interventions, care planning, assessments and support service users through their treatment journey and recovery ambitions – from beginning to end. Working as part of a multidisciplinary team, you will offer health support via testing clinics for blood borne viruses (BBVs), embrace the concept of recovery and keep up-to-date and accurate records and documentation. The vacancy is open to qualified professionals or members of the public with some understanding of substance misuse and is based within the Basingstoke hub for Inclusion Recovery Hampshire. You will be an integral part of a team, making a real difference to people’s lives and the wider communities in which we serve.
Details
Position: Part time Recovery Worker (30 hours per week) at Inclusion Recovery Hampshire's Basingstoke Service.
Location: Inclusion Basingstoke, Jacobs House, Jacobs Yard, Basingstoke, RG21 7PE
Seniority level: Entry level
Employment type: Part-time
Job function: Administrative
Industries: Information Services
Pay: £31,049 to £37,796 per year (Agenda for Change, Band 5)
Contract: Permanent
Date posted: 26 September 2025
Employer: Inclusion (part of MPFT - Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust)
Employer website: https://www.mpft.nhs.uk
Main duties and responsibilities
1. Be responsible for maintaining a full caseload of complex clients and supporting them to move forward in their recovery.
2. Accept referrals, assess need and make appropriate recommendations as part of a robust duty system.
3. Provide harm reduction advice, information and support with emphasis on safer drug and alcohol use, safer sex, HIV, Hepatitis A, B and C and other BBVs.
4. Carry out comprehensive assessments, construct care packages with multidisciplinary colleagues, review care plans in a structured format and manage onward referral.
5. Provide a range of structured psychosocial interventions including CBT-based brief solution-focused therapy, motivational enhancement techniques, and create and facilitate group work interventions.
6. Make domiciliary visits consistent with need, particularly for service users with disabilities and those with family responsibilities.
7. Retain contact with service users while they are accommodated in residential rehabilitation units, including visits when required.
8. Provide a needle exchange service.
9. Develop and sustain links with multidisciplinary services including statutory and non-statutory providers of drug and alcohol services, criminal justice services and wrap-around services.
10. Develop a network of contacts with relevant agencies to promote service accessibility for the client group.
Person Specification
Experience
* Essential: Experience of working in the drug and alcohol field (including voluntary work or placements).
Skills
* Essential: Excellent communication skills.
* Essential: A commitment to, and understanding of, harm reduction & recovery approaches when working with people who use drugs and alcohol.
Qualifications
* Essential: Accredited Drug and Alcohol Practitioner, or willingness to work towards accreditation during employment with Inclusion.
Desirable
* Relevant training/qualification/experience in CBT, Motivational Interviewing, Brief Solution Focused Therapy, Mapping techniques (ITEP/BTEI).
* Foundation Degree/HNC in related field (counselling, social work, nursing, psychology, social studies).
Disclosure and Safeguarding
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and requires a Disclosure to be processed by the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).
Employer details
Employer: Inclusion
Address: Inclusion Basingstoke, Jacobs House, Jacobs Yard, Basingstoke, RG21 7PE
Employer’s website: https://www.mpft.nhs.uk
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