Recovery Worker - Sefton
JOB_53580704746278Job type
TemporaryLocation
SeftonWorking Pattern
Full-timeSpecialism
Social HousingIndustry
Staffing & EmploymentPay
£17 Umbrella - £21 UmbrellaClosing date
18 Feb 2026
Substance misuse recovery worker
Your new company
We’re looking for a passionate and proactive colleague to join the Barnet Service as an Outreach Worker. This is a fantastic opportunity to build on your experience supporting people and make a meaningful impact on their lives.
Your new role
- To engage with a range of individuals who have adopted ‘ street-based living’, including rough sleepers and beggars with a view to engaging them in appropriate services and moving them into more settled lifestyles.
- Increase service user choice, service user involvement and empower service users to maintain sustainable change; working collaboratively and proactively to ensure that services are fully co-ordinated and are working collectively towards the achievement of goals and positive outcomes for each individual client.
- To build and develop service users’ personal strengths and social networks in the UK and/or in the individual’s country of origin.
- To provide a range of flexible and effective interventions to engage with hard to reach service users.
Key Duties
- To identify and establish contact with rough sleepers and beggars, working
- Within protocols to rapidly assist service users through street outreach shifts at a
- Variety of times and a range of locations.
- To identify and establish contact with entrenched rough sleepers, including
- Those unwilling to engage with services, providing assertive outreach.
- To assist homeless service users in being discharged from hospital at an
- Appropriate time by moving them into appropriate accommodation as quickly as possible.
What you'll need to succeed
- Understanding of the needs of people who are rough sleeping and/or begging
- In-depth knowledge of at least one of the following: substance misuse, alcohol misuse, mental health
- Understanding of service users who have multiple and complex needs.
- Understanding the importance of multi-agency working within a strength based on an asset-building approach and maintaining professional boundaries
- Experience of facilitating multi-agency meetings
What you'll get in return
- Full time hours
- Weekly competitive pay
What you need to do now
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion about your career.
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