Recovery Worker | East London NHS Foundation Trust

P2R are looking a flexible worker with experience of working in social care preferably with substance misuses.

Path to Recovery, Drug and Alcohol Services providescommunity baseddrug and alcohol services to Bedford Borough and Central Bedfordshire

The purpose of the job is to reduce drug and alcohol related harms to individuals,familiesand communities, and empower service users to achieve a better quality of life and wellbeing andfulfilltheir personal ambitions for recovery. The post holderwill

• put service users at the centre of everything they do, and consistently deliver ahigh qualityservice that promotes and supports recovery in line with Trust vision and processes
• work to values that include self-determination,empowermentand choice for service users
• workin partnership with service users and empower them to draw on their individual strengths andassets, andset goals they would like to achieve in all aspects of their lives.
• deliver personalised andevidence basedinterventions in one-to-one and group settings, and will optimise their interventions to achieve the best possibleoutcomes

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve.

Our values are

We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

• To manage a caseload of 35-70 service users, depending on complexity and other responsibilities
• To carry out drug and alcohol misuse assessment including assessment of personal strengths and recovery capital, and risks.
• To develop recovery plans using a person centred approach to develop, implement and evaluate needs and strengths based care plans and risk management plans in partnership with service users, carers and other professionals.
• To offer health promotion and deliver harm reduction interventions, including needle exchange and access to physical health care including BBV and health screening
• To provide IBA, extended IBA, one-to-one and group interventions
• To liaise with professionals e.g. GP at start of treatment, at review and discharge
• To provide evidence based drug and alcohol interventions in line with guidelines e.g. NICE, CQC, in a variety of settings promoting flexibility and choice for service users.
• To deliver prescribing interventions, working in partnership with medical colleagues; titration, monitor and review maintenance regimes, detoxification etc.
• To maximise engagement with service users and reduce the risks both to the individual service user and to others affected by their drug and/or alcohol misuse.
• To facilitate service users and carers to be involved in care and treatment.
• To refer service users to appropriate Health and Social Care services that support their recovery and support them in accessing these services.
• To lead and participate in the clinical activities of the Team such as evening service and duty worker system.
• To make full use of all available interventions for delivering treatment, including online
• To work as an effective member of the multi-disciplinary team ensuring effective communication with other team members and other professionals.
• To attend, lead and contribute to multi-disciplinary and multi-agency clinical meetings.
• To receive and participate in clinical supervision in accordance with Trust policy
• To attend, lead and contribute to team meetings.
• To maintain electronic health care records in accordance with Trust’s Record Keeping policies.
• To record data in line with the service Operational Policies
• To produce high quality letters and reports about service users’ care and treatment.
• To use Information Management and Technology effectively and efficiently in accordance with Trust policies.
• To complete incident reporting in accordance with Trust policies.

This advert closes on Sunday 2 Aug 2026