INSPIRING CHANGE AND POSITIVE CHOICE
Double Impact is a registered charity and not for profit organisation, established in 1998.
Our Mission is to provide a quality service, which promotes recovery and community integration for people who have experienced problematic drug and alcohol use or gambling. This is achieved by providing opportunities for personal development, recovery orientation, healthy choices, education, vocational training, and pathways to volunteering and employment.
By placing our service users’ needs at the heart of our ethos and their own recovery journey, we provide a uniquely holistic, flexible service. We believe that with the right support everybody can recover and that in recovery anything is possible.
We have an exciting opportunity - we are looking for a:Notts Recovery Collective– Community Organiser
Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract for 5 years
Hours: 37 hours–Monday-Friday with occasional attendance outside of these at evenings/weekends for recovery events/programme activities
Salary: £25,000
Location: Based in Double Impact’s Mansfield premises, NG18, with travel County-wideSummary
The Notts Recovery Collective is a new, unique 5-year Lottery-funded project: it will develop a Member-led community of people in recovery, to shape a bold, inclusive, and sustainable future for recovery support in Nottinghamshire.
Over the next five years, the Collective will engage people in recovery, train and support volunteers, and foster skills-based and employment opportunities for people with lived experience. It will grow a peer support group network across the county while embedding lived experience leadership at its core, through a Members’ Committee and Steering Group.
We are looking for candidates who can guide The Notts Recovery Collective to be a proactive, inspiring model of what happens, when people in recovery are trusted to lead.Community Organiser Role
We are seeking an individual with Lived Experience of recovery from addiction, to work in co-production with – and being led by - a Members Committee, to:
• Support and grow a culture of Collective co-production, cooperation and self-directed activity, in keeping with co-production and Action Learning principles/practices

• Help establish the Collective and coordinate the Collective’s activity timetable/community offer: a wide variety of groups/activities, as requested by Members – both face-to-face and online
• Facilitate Peer Support Groups, both face-to-face and online
• Deliver training to support and accelerate the growth of a peer support network across the county
• Support Members to access volunteer opportunities within the Collective and other work/skills/personal development-related opportunities in the wider community
• Lead on the maintenance, usage and upkeep of the Collective’s Hub building in MansfieldThis is a great opportunity to join the team at the start of an exciting new 5-yr initiative. If you feel you meet the requirements and would like to know more about this opportunity, please contact Eleanor Youdell on 07808 036514 before Monday 19th Jan at 12pm.

Double Impact embraces diversity and takes a pro-active approach to equality in services and employment. Registered Charity No. 1139865Closing Date for applications: Monday 10am, 26th Jan 2026Interviews will be held w/c 2nd Feb 2026