Recovery Worker – Bournemouth Ref: 0137ZS
Join us as a Recovery Worker in Bournemouth.
Our team is recruiting a full‑time (37.5 hours) Recovery Worker to provide high quality recovery care to a diverse service user group. If you are enthusiastic, creative, and passionate about improving lives, we would love to hear from you.
As a leading charity, we support people with drug, alcohol, and mental health challenges through over 80 services across England and Scotland, offering free and confidential support to more than 100,000 people each year.
As a Recovery Worker, we offer a starting salary of £26,250 per annum. The salary rises each year in line with our pay progression salary bands, to £30,900 per annum.
Main duties of the job
As a Recovery Worker you will provide support and advice to people experiencing difficulties due to substance misuse and work within a highly skilled, multidisciplinary team. You will help clients identify their goals, ambitions, and passions, creating treatment plans and guiding them on their path to recovery. This frontline role delivers continuity of care through effective partnership working, care coordination, and intervention delivery.
The successful candidate will be compassionate, proactive and confident in partnership working, with a strong understanding of the challenges faced by individuals experiencing substance misuse and mental health difficulties.
We are looking for a Recovery Worker working 37.5 hours per week, Monday‑Friday, between 09:00 – 17:00.
About us
WithYou provides free and confidential support without judgement to over 100,000 people each year experiencing challenges with drugs, alcohol and mental health across England and Scotland.
Person Specification
Experience
- Positive and motivated candidates who can communicate with a wide range of people, organised, and with excellent time‑management skills.
- Ability to build effective links with PCNs, CMHTs, Access Wellbeing Hubs, Interface Meetings, and Steps 2 Wellbeing services.
- Supporting clients to attend appointments and advocating on their behalf with partner agencies.
- Providing outreach support and attending multi‑agency meetings to ensure coordinated care.
- Offering low‑level emotional wellbeing support, including support around anxiety, depression and neurodiversity.
- Supporting clients to engage with external mental health services and improve access to appropriate care pathways.
- Focusing on engaging individuals with mental health needs into the treatment system and reducing barriers to support.
- UK driving licence and access to a vehicle.
- Ideally you have previous experience working or volunteering with people who misuse substances. We welcome applications from those with lived experience.
- Above all, an inspiring and engaging approach to what we do.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975. Consequently, a Disclosure to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly CRB) will be required to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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