Participation Advisor JOB0252

• Job Reference
• JOB0252
• Location
• Home based with travel to Via services and stakeholder meetings as required
• Salary
• £35,098 - £41,088 per annum, including London Weighting where appropriate
• Vacancy Type
• Permanent/Full Time
• Working Hours
• 37.5 hours per week, with some requirement of evening work
• Application Deadline
• Tuesday, October 7, 2025
• Job Summary
• Make a National Impact Through Volunteering, Lived Experience and Participation.Are you passionate about championing the rights of people with lived and living experience in the substance misuse field? This new and exciting opportunity might be for you!The Role

  This role is an exciting opportunity within a newly revamped Volunteering and Participation Team at Via.

  As the Participation Advisor, you will support on the delivery and implementation of the Involvement & Participation Strategy across the organisation, championing the rights of people with lived and living experience to shape and improve services.

  In this role, you will play a key part in leading on national and local initiatives enabling participation on all levels.

  The Service

  You will form part of the Central Team of Volunteering and Participation Services.

  Location

  This role is home-based with travel to Via services and key stakeholder meetings as 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

  Max Griffiths, Head of Volunteering & ParticipationviaMax.Griffiths@viaorg.ukor 07557 393980.

  The closing date for applications is

  Tuesday 7 October at midnight.Interviews are likely to take place week commencing 13 October.

  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 Participation Advisor