Salary: 40-45k depending on experience
Hours: Full time 37.5
Location: South Gloucestershire
Contract Type: Permanent
DHI is an award-winning charity looking for an experienced and passionate Service Manager to lead our adult drug and alcohol treatment service in South Gloucestershire.
In this key leadership role, you'll oversee service delivery, manage a high-performing team, and work closely with partners and commissioners to continuously develop the service to support people affected by substance use. You'll ensure services are person-centred, recovery-focused, safe and effective, with significant involvement from peers and service users. You will have oversight and ensure integration with our clinical partner.
We’re looking for someone who:
- Has experience / ability to oversee and lead both clinical and non-clinical staff / services
- Has excellent understanding of harm reduction, recovery and substance use interventions
- Can drive performance and manage risk
- Is confident working with complex client needs
- Brings resilience, flexibility, and a solution-focused mindset
A Driving licence with access to a vehicle and the willingness to use it for work travel is essential.
Desirable: Management qualification, experience in change management or service development.
Our Values
If you share DHI’s values of flexibility, stimulation, self- direction and zest for life, then we encourage you to apply.
What We Offer
- You’ll receive 26 days of paid annual leave, increasing by one additional day for each full year of service after your first year, up to a maximum of 31 days
- Company pension scheme (7% employer contribution to 3% employee)
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Charity Worker Discounts
- Cycle Scheme
- Mileage allowance of 45p per mile for work related travel (excluding to base location)
- Training and development opportunities
- Flexible working options considered
- Hybrid working available
- Signing on bonus payment of £1000
- Pay review after successful completion of a 6-month probation period
Next Steps
If you’d like to know more about the role contact Karen Proudlock: KProudlock@dhi-online.org.uk to arrange an informal discussion.
How to Apply
To apply for this role please provide a CV and covering letter and send to recruitment@dhibath.org.uk by midday 23 January 2026. Interviews expected week commencing 2 February 2026
All applicants are required to submit a covering letter that should address the following questions in no more than 500 words maximum.
- 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. Please also tell us where you saw the post advertised.
14 St. James' Parade
Bath BA1 1UL
Salary: £26,000-29,000 per year
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Location: Patchway
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 provide a CV and covering letter and send to recruitment@dhibath.org.uk by midday on 30 January 2026. Interviews will be held shortly after this date.
All applicants are required to submit a covering letter that should address the following questions in no more than 500 words maximum.
• 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. Please also tell us where you saw the post advertised.
14 St. James' Parade
Bath BA1 1UL