Recovery Worker
Salary: £26,988 - £30,102 per annum pro rate
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Location: Yate
Contract Type: Permanent
DHI are recruiting a Recovery Worker to support clients within the South Glos area who are on one of our drug and alcohol recovery programmes. We are looking for people who can bring creativity and enthusiasm to supporting clients, helping them to make positive changes in their lives.
You will be joining an experienced Drug and Alcohol Community Team that works hard to support each other and to deliver an exceptional service to our clients
As a recovery worker, you will deliver key working and evidence-based psychosocial groupwork programmes to support individuals make positive changes to their drug use. The role is varied and as interesting and requires you to carry out needs assessments and risk assessments alongside other tasks.
A Driving Licence with access to vehicle and willingness to use it for work travel is essential.
About You
At DHI we highly value transferable skills and life experience. If you have good organisational skills, can manage relationships, solve problems, and are resilient, adaptable and flexible then we would love to hear from you.
Your background could be from anywhere where you have needed to apply problem solving and motivational skills. Teaching, ex-armed forces, customer service are all examples of just some professions where we believe these transferable skills are often found, or you may have lived experience.
Our Values
We are an award winning charity that challenges social exclusion by supporting people to achieve their potential and our values underpin this.
If you share DHI’s values of flexibility, stimulation, self- direction and zest for life, then we encourage you to apply.
We look forward to exploring these with you during the interview process should you be successful at the shortlisting stage.
What We Offer
Alongside on the job support and mentoring we offer a variety of training to enable the successful candidate to develop and thrive within this role including motivational interviewing, relapse prevention, professional boundaries and training with regard to drug and alcohol related topics that are relevant to the post.
As an employee of DHI, you will have also access to our Employee Assistance Programme, our Cycle Scheme, up to 31 days paid annual leave (service-related) , company pension scheme and Charity Worker Discounts.
Next Steps
If you’d like to know more about the role contact Lisa Wheeler: LWheeler@dhi-online.org.uk to arrange an informal discussion. Or to apply for the Recovery Worker vacancy please follow the instructions below:
How to apply
To apply for this role please complete the application form by 5pm Friday 25 September 2026. Interviews will be held shortly after the closing date.
All applicants are required to submit a statement that is part of the application form that should address the following questions in no more than 500 words.
- State how you meet the requirements within the Person Specification
- What do our core values mean to you in relation to this role
We strongly encourage you to complete our Equality & Diversity monitoring form to help us achieve a diverse workforce. The form does not form part of the selection process.
We strongly encourage you to complete our Equality & Diversity monitoring form to help us achieve a diverse workforce. This form will not be used as part of the selection process, and it is fully anonymous. Please also tell us where you saw the post advertised.
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