Recovery Worker - Sefton

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  • Job type

    Temporary
  • Location

    Sefton
  • Working Pattern

    Full-time
  • Specialism

    Social Housing
  • Industry

    Staffing & Employment
  • Pay

    £17 Umbrella - £21 Umbrella
  • Closing 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.
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