Recovery Worker – Blackpool | Winstone House

Location: Winstone House, Blackpool

Role: Recovery Worker

Duration: 2 months

Hours: Full-time

Start: Urgent / Immediate

Pay: Starting from £14.50 per hour PAYE + holiday pay or £18.00 per hour Umbrella

Experienced candidates: Rates may be increased depending on experience

The Opportunity

We are urgently looking for an experienced Recovery Worker to join the multidisciplinary team at Winstone House, Blackpool, on a 2-month full-time assignment.

This is an excellent opportunity for a skilled Recovery Worker to support individuals throughout their treatment and recovery journey, helping to reduce drug and alcohol-related harm and promote long-term recovery, independence and social reintegration.

Key Responsibilities

• Support service users from initial entry through their treatment and recovery journey.
• Complete screening, triage and comprehensive assessments.
• Develop and review individual recovery plans using motivational interviewing techniques.
• Act as a Care Coordinator for an allocated caseload.
• Support social reintegration and meaningful community involvement.
• Carry out risk assessments and develop appropriate risk-management plans.
• Coordinate onward referrals to treatment, health and community services.
• Work alongside prescribing clinicians to support substitute prescribing programmes.
• Promote recovery, resilience, peer support and self-determination.
• Help develop recovery communities and strengthen links with local recovery and mutual-aid groups.
• Ensure accurate and timely recording, data collection and reporting.
• Work collaboratively as part of a multidisciplinary and multi-agency team.

We're Looking For

The ideal candidate will have:

• Previous experience working within CGL (Change Grow Live).
• Experience using CRiiS.
• Previous experience as a Recovery Worker, Care Coordinator or within a drug and alcohol treatment setting.
• Experience with assessments, recovery planning and risk management.
• Knowledge of substance-misuse treatment and harm-reduction approaches.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• A person-centred, flexible and recovery-focused approach.
• The ability to manage a caseload and work effectively within a multidisciplinary team.