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Job Title


Recovery Practitioner


Company : Wdp


Location : Stroud, England


Created : 2025-08-09


Job Type : Full Time


Job Description

Are you ready to make a meaningful impact in Stroud by supporting individuals on their recovery journey through compassionate, strength-based care? The Role This is an exciting opportunity to hold a mixed caseload and support other tasks including assessment, duty and groups in a thriving service, making positive changes in peoples’ lives, through a non-judgmental, recovery-based approach that values the strengths and choices of those individuals. Through joining Via you will receive a warm welcome, peer support, training, regular supervision and the chance to thrive in a lively and innovative service. The main purpose of this role is to provide excellent quality of care to people who use our service accessing treatment for substance use and their complex needs, in partnership with our clinical team, counsellors and other professionals involved in client's care. You will have an in-depth knowledge and experience of the challenges affecting people with substance use and related health and wellbeing issues. Working as part of a dynamic team you will be responsible for managing a caseload of clients, to include prescribing, providing a good quality of interventions at varying stages of their recovery as well as developing and delivering a wide range of groups. The duties are varied, and no two days will be the same. 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 Adult Drug and Alcohol Services across Gloucestershire transferred to Via on 1April 2024. The role is part of Via’s structure and provides a great opportunity to build on existing service strengths, drive new developments and make a positive impact as part of this new contract. 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 For an informal chat about the role please contactLisa Demain, Team Leadervia or 01452 223014. The closing date for applications isSunday 31 August at midnight. Interviews are likely to take place on either Friday 5 or Monday 8 September. 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). 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 if you have any recruitment enquiries or if you require this documentation in an accessible format.#J-18808-Ljbffr