Criminal Justice and Outreach Practitioner - Dependency & Recovery Job 0309

• Job Reference
• Job 0309
• Location
• Chester
• Salary
• £26,940.00 to £30,762.00 - Dependent on experience
• Vacancy Type
• Permanent/Full Time
• Working Hours
• 37.5 hours per week
• Application Deadline
• Sunday, February 15, 2026
• Job Summary
• The Role

  Experience of working within substance misuse and criminal justice knowledge or a related Health and Social Care setting is essential as well as experience of delivering structured treatment groups. You must be committed, resourceful and highly motivated to engage people within treatment services and promote recovery through their daily practice.

  You will be co located within Chester probation offices and our Chester Hub as part of Dependency and Recovery to improve continuity of care upon release from prison to achieve people who use our services recovery journey goals, via 1:1s and structured groupwork, and case manage clients on probation alongside the Probation Practitioners.

  Your duties will include:

  • assessing their needs, delivering effective interventions, completing detailed reports, and working closely with our criminal justice partner agencies, clinical team and other partner agencies.
  • conducting assessments for clients, including Alcohol Treatment Requirement (ATR) and Drugs Rehabilitation Requirements (DRR) assessments.
  • managing a case load and coordinating and delivering assessments and evidence-based interventions (brief and structured), recovery planning and aftercare planning.
  • delivering harm reduction advice, psychosocial interventions, needle & syringe exchanges, Blood borne virus testing and interventions, drug testing and overdose prevention advice.

  An empathetic and non-judgmental approach is imperative, as this role involves working with a wide range of challenging issues and behaviours. Good time management and team working skills are essential in this fast-paced service.

  Based within Cheshire West & Chester integrated Drug and Alcohol Service, the Criminal Justice Outreach Practitioner role will support criminal justice service users within the area Contact, assess, refer and support drug and alcohol users in criminal justice settings (including Court, prisons, & probation offices), treatment agencies and other appropriate settings

  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

  To find out more about our service, visit

  New Beginnings in Cheshire West and Chester.

  Please do not reapply if you have previously applied within the last 12 months.

  For an informal chat about the role, or if you would like to visit the service, please contact

  Toni Bills-IngramviaToni.Bills-ingram@viaorg.uk

  The closing date for applications is

  Sunday 15^thFebruary at midnight.Interviews are likely to take place week commencing 16^thFebruary 2026

  We only accept applications via

  http://www.viaorg.uk/work-at-via/career-paths/using our application form, sorry we don’t accept CVs. For guidance on how to complete the application visithttp://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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