Harm Reduction Senior Practitioner JOB0222

• Job Reference
• JOB0222
• Location
• Harrow
• Salary
• up to £34,052 per annum, including London Weighting where appropriate
• Vacancy Type
• Fixed Term/Full Time
• Working Hours
• 37.5 hours per week
• Application Deadline
• Thursday, October 23, 2025
• Job Summary
• Lead Change, Promote Health, and Build Stronger Communities

  Are you a passionate and knowledgeable harm reduction professional ready to take the next step in your career? We’re looking for a Harm Reduction Senior Practitioner to lead a dedicated team and drive forward health-focused interventions across Harrow - both within our service and out in the community.

  The Role

  You will work from the service site and, at times, across the local community, undertaking a wide range of promotion and development of partnerships to make our service more accessible.

  This is an exciting opportunity to join a thriving service and help build an ever larger network of partnerships to highlight harm reduction and health promotion across the borough. We will be looking for the successful applicant to co-ordinate across those partnerships focussing on key areas such as reducing alcohol related harm, safer injecting practices, opioid substitute treatment knowledge and smoking cessation; they will have good knowledge of these areas.

  You will line manage a team delivering a variety of health orientated interventions, encouraging development and learning both within the team and also our community partners.

  The Service

  Via Harrow is a fully integrated substance misuse service, providing clinical and psychosocial interventions from a main treatment hub in Harrow and from a range of satellite services in the borough. The team actively promotes recovery and work with individuals that are directly and indirectly affected by substance misuse, working with the local community to improve the health, wellbeing and functioning of Harrow residents, irrespective of circumstance.

  This service is an established Community Integrated service that is well performing and highly functioning, it is CQC registered to provide a range of clinical interventions including BBV & health interventions, OST, and community detox alongside a comprehensive psychosocial and recovery focussed model.

  Location

  Harrow Recovery Centre is based at 97 Pinner Road, HA1 4ET, close to Harrow-on-the-Hill tube station.

  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

  Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Via we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

  For an informal chat about the role please contact

  Allen Quine, Service ManagerviaAllen.Quine@viaorg.ukor 07973 459001.

  The closing date for applications is Thursday 23 October

  at midnight.

  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 Harm Reduction Senior Practitioner