Recovery Practitioner - FLEX Team

We're Looking for Our Next Superstar! Are you passionate, driven, and ready to make a real impact? We’re on the hunt for a true superstar to join our team as a Recovery Practitioner, supporting individuals with drug and alcohol issues.

The Role
Join our dynamic and flexible team, where you'll have the opportunity to make a real difference in the lives of those struggling with drug and alcohol issues. As a Recovery Practitioner, you'll provide essential support across various locations, ensuring our services are delivered effectively.

Key Responsibilities:

Cover a geographical area, supporting service delivery for short to medium periods as needed, across all our services. The locations will and could include:

• West & Central London & surrounding areas
• East & Central London & surrounding areas
• North & Central London & surrounding areas
• South & Central London & surrounding areas

What We Offer:

• A comprehensive and robust induction package.
• Ongoing training and professional development opportunities.
• Reimbursement of all reasonable travel expenses.

Requirements:

• Willingness and ability to travel across Greater London and surrounding areas.
• Level 3 Tackling Substance Misuse (or equivalent).
• Experience of working in substance misuse services.

The Service
We are seeking highly skilled and experienced professionals to join our Via - FLEX Team, dedicated to delivering flexible and responsive service. FLEX stands for:

• F – Fixed role, not a fixed work base
• L – Locations, locations, locations – go where you are needed
• E – Experience essential, along with your expert skills and knowledge
• X – Xtra capacity for teams that need extra support.

As part of our vital work, the Via - FLEX Team has been developed to provide exceptional support and structured interventions to those we serve. This team operates flexibly across our services, ensuring we meet the needs of our clients effectively.

The Via - FLEX Team includes a substantive team (permanent posts) that works across a range of services, fulfilling placement needs and providing additional capacity and support whenever required.

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 contact Meera Callender, Team Leader via [email protected] or Eleanor Lyden-Vieten, Area Director [email protected]


At Via we believe in continuously attracting top talent. That’s why we operate a rolling recruitment process - accepting and reviewing applications on an ongoing basis.

This approach allows us to remain agile, responsive and ready to welcome exceptional individuals as they become available. We encourage interested candidates to apply early, as positions may be filled as soon as the right talent is found.

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).

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