Recovery Practitioner - Outreach Inroads

Recovery Practitioner - Outreach Inroads

Job Reference JOB0206 Location Woking Salary £27,720 - £31,542 per annum, including London Weighting where appropriate Vacancy Type Permanent / Full Time Working Hours 37.5 hours per week Application Deadline Wednesday, July 2, 2025 Job Summary

Come and join our High Impact Complex Drinkers (HICD) Service as an Outreach Recovery Practitioner, engaging with people in the community making a difference and improving the lives of those in most need.

The Role

Are you enthusiastic and an experience alcohol recovery worker, who is dedicated to performing an outreach role across the county? This exciting new role will offer you the chance to make a lasting difference to the lives of people who use our service.

If you're working with us, here are some things you do in a typical week :

• Work closely with partners from adult social services, alcohol liaison teams, probation, housing, community safety teams, and a range of other health and social care agencies to engage and re-engage people into treatment.
• Provide assertive outreach with a focus on safeguarding, engagement, and harm reduction across Surrey, working with the wider i-access team to ensure seamless access to treatment interventions.
• Assist people in accessing treatment services and making sustained changes to improve their lives.

The Service

Via is commissioned to provide Assertive Outreach to some of the most vulnerable and complex alcohol drinkers in Surrey, working alongside multi-disciplinary teams to minimise risk and impact on the community and emergency services.

This service is an established community Integrated service that is well performing and highly functioning.

Location

You will work peripatetically across Surrey, with an administrative base in Woking, and will need access to a car for travel.

For an informal chat about the role, contact Michael Shaw , Service Manager Michael.Shaw@viaorg.uk 07759 131832 or Zoe Waite – Senior Practitioner Zoe.Waite@viaorg.uk 07840853518.

The closing date for applications is Wednesday 2 July at midnight.

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 - Outreach (HICD)

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