Recovery Worker
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Hours / week
- 37.5
- Posted
- 18/08/2026
- Closes
- 14/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This advert explicitly states that sponsorship is not offered.
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“This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship. If it is identified that you require sponsorship your application may be withdrawn”Quoted verbatim from the source advert
Role summary
This role involves providing comprehensive drug and alcohol treatment and support to service users in Hampshire. You will manage a caseload, conduct assessments, develop care plans, and offer a range of interventions to support individuals through their recovery journey. The position requires working as part of a multi-disciplinary team, including offering health support via testing clinics and maintaining accurate records. It is based in the Basingstoke hub and aims to empower service users to achieve a better quality of life.
Key responsibilities
- Be responsible for maintaining a full caseload of complex clients and supporting them to move forward in their recovery.
- To accept referrals, assess need and make appropriate recommendations as part as a robust duty system.
- Provide harm reduction advice, information and support with an emphasis on safer drug and alcohol use, safer sex, HIV, Hepatitis A, B and C and other blood borne viruses (BBVs).
- To carry out comprehensive assessments, construct care packages with multi-disciplinary colleagues where required, review care plans in a structured format and manage onward referral.
- To provide a range of structured psychosocial interventions including CBT-based brief solution-focused therapy, motivational enhancement techniques, and create and facilitate group work interventions.
- To make domiciliary visits consistent with need, particularly for service users with disabilities and to those with family responsibilities.
Essential criteria
- Experience of working in the drug and alcohol field (including voluntary work or placements)
- Strong communication skills, including motivational and trauma-informed approaches
- A commitment to, and understanding of, harm reduction & recovery approaches when working with people who use Drugs and Alcohol
- Ability to manage a caseload and maintain accurate records
- Accredited Drug and Alcohol Practitioner, or a willingness to work towards accreditation during employment with Inclusion
Desirable criteria
- Foundation Degree/HNC in related field which may include counselling, social work, nursing, psychology, social studies
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 5 at £29,970 – £36,483 a year, across England.
This advert: £32,073 – £39,043 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Inclusion
Recovery Worker
The closing date is 14 September 2026
Job summary
This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship. If it is identified that you require sponsorship your application may be withdrawn
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 all of your expertise in providing a remarkable service and care to your own caseload of service users, this includes being responsible for offering a range of interventions, care planning, assessments and supporting service users through their treatment journey and recovery ambitions - from beginning to end.
Working as part of our dedicated and multi-disciplinary team and alongside our prescribers, you will offer health support via testing clinics for blood borne viruses (BBVs), embracing the concept of recovery and keeping 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.Y
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