Recovery Practitioner

Are you passionate about supporting people with substance misuse towards their recovery journey? Then this role could be for you! The Role We are looking for a dynamic and committed individual to join our Via Harrow service in the borough of Harrow. This exciting and rewarding role will provide you with significant scope for growth and innovation within a supportive and friendly multidisciplinary team of clinical and non-clinical professionals. The main purpose of this role is to provide excellent quality of care to people who use our service accessing treatment across the Borough with a particular focus on people with opioid use and poly substance users with complex needs, including prescription management. Your responsibilities will include the following: Working as part of a dynamic team delivering an effective and safe service covering Duty, Referrals, and Assessments. Responsible for managing a caseload of clients which include opiate substitute prescribing, relapse management, providing a good quality of interventions at varying stages of their recovery. Working as part of a creative team in developing and delivering a wide range of group sessions. Liaising with external agencies (GP, CMHT, Hospitals, Safeguarding Teams) to promote safe treatment and wellbeing for the best outcome for all clients. Duties may include supporting other areas of service delivery as well as helping to take part in a wide range of special interests and activities that support health and wellbeing such as smoking cessation and local events. The Service Via Harrow is an established Community Integrated service that is well performing and highly functioning. The service consists of both clinical and psychosocial and is CQC registered to provide a range of clinical interventions including BBV & health interventions, OST, and community detox, as well as robust family and carers and service user involvement provision. Working hours will be Monday – Friday, 9am to 5pm, with some evenings (7pm) and occasional weekends if needed. 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. Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Via we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles. For an informal chat about the role please contact

Antonio Silvestro ,

Team Leader

or

Natacha Compton, Criminal Justice Senior Practitioner . The closing date for applications is

Sunday 7 July at midnight. We only accept applications via our application form; sorry we don’t accept CVs. For guidance on how to complete the application visit our website. 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 is subject to satisfactory completion of our safeguarding checks including DBS, and we follow safer recruiting principles.

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