Criminal Justice & Outreach Practitioner - Dependency & Recovery JOB0245

• Job Reference
• JOB0245
• Location
• Chester
• Salary
• £26,940 - £30,762 per annum
• Vacancy Type
• Permanent/Full Time
• Working Hours
• 37.5 hours per week
• Application Deadline
• Sunday, September 21, 2025
• Job Summary
• Work alongside probation and health professionals to deliver integrated support that transforms lives and reduces reoffending.The Role

  Experience of working within substance misuse and criminal justice knowledge or a related Health and Social Care setting is essential. The successful candidates must be committed, resourceful and highly motivated to engage people who use our services and promote recovery through their daily practice.

  This role will be co-located within probation offices as part of Dependency and Recovery to improve continuity of care upon release from prison, to case manage clients on probation alongside the Probation Practitioners. The role will require the post holder to assess the needs of those who use our services, deliver effective interventions, complete detailed reports, and work closely with our criminal justice partner agencies, clinical team and other partner agencies.

  Responsibilities will include the following:

  • Contact, assess, refer and support drug and alcohol users in criminal justice settings (including Court, prisons, & probation offices), treatment agencies and other appropriate settings.
  • Conduct assessments for clients, including Alcohol Treatment Requirement (ATR) and Drugs Rehabilitation Requirements (DRR) assessments.
  • Care planning and risk assessment.
  • Caseload management of Criminal justice clients.
  • Deliver evidence-based psychosocial one-to-one interventions.
  • Experience of delivering structured treatment group programmes.
  • Deliver harm reduction advice, guidance and education including through assertive outreach, needle & syringe programme delivery, brief and extended recovery interventions, blood borne virus intervention, overdose prevention including naloxone programmes.
  The Service

  Cheshire West and Chester is a fully integrated recovery service delivered by Via We offer free and confidential support for individuals affected by drug and alcohol problems and their families and carers. We believe with the right support; people can make long-lasting transformations in their lives to improve their health and wellbeing.

  Location

  Aqua House, The Boughton Centre, 51 Boughton, Chester CH3 5AF.

  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

  Jane Murphy, Service ManagerviaJane.Murphy@viaorg.ukorToni Bills-Ingram, Criminal Justice Team LeaderviaToni.Bills-Ingram@viaorg.uk

  The closing date for applications is

  Sunday 21 September at midnight.Interviews are likely to take place week commencing 22 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).

  We accept applications via

  https://www.viaorg.uk/work-at-via/career-paths/using our short application form, and your CV. For guidance on how to complete the application visithttps://www.viaorg.uk/work-at-via/how-to-apply/. Please submit your application as soon as possible as we may close adverts at any time if we receive a sufficient number of applications.

  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

  people@viaorg.ukif you have any recruitment enquiries or if you require this documentation in an accessible format.
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• JD Criminal Justice Recovery Practitioner