Job Description

Salary:

16,951 (28,252 FTE) + Healthcare Scheme + Onsite Parking

Hours:

22.5 hours per week, regular shift pattern operating between the hours of 8am and 7pm Mon-Sun.

Homelessness isn't just about losing a home--it's about losing stability, security, and often, hope. We are recruiting a specialist Alcohol Recovery Worker to support individuals facing homelessness and the additional challenge of substance misuse.

Through a contract with Wirral Borough Council, YMCA Wirral operates a

Controlled Drinking Environment (CDE)

which provides a safe, supervised, and dignified space for individuals struggling with alcohol dependency.

What You'll Be Doing

Supporting people through the highs and lows, offering practical help, understanding and encouragement. Delivering

harm reduction

strategies and techniques within the CDE. Inspiring change and making a

lasting difference

in people's lives.

What We're Looking For

A

kind heart

and a strong sense of empathy. Great communication skills to support and encourage others. A calm and measured approach to handling challenging situations. Knowledge of health, social care, housing or criminal justice systems. Personal or professional experience of homelessness, substance misuse or other related issues is desirable but not essential as training will be provided.

Purpose of Job

Our Alcohol Recovery and Engagement team deliver high quality, psychologically informed housing and hostel services to vulnerable, single homeless individuals, a number of whom have complex needs. These needs may include mental health issues, brain injury, neurodiversity, substance misuse and/or offending behaviour.

Working alongside the wider team at YMCA Wirral, the Alcohol Engagement Worker will recruit clients at the earliest possible stage, to deliver structured interventions that reduce harm to themselves and support them to access pathways to substance misuse treatment and wider health interventions.

The Alcohol Recovery & Engagement Worker will help individuals begin and sustain their recovery by conducting assessments, creating personalised plans, connecting clients to community resources, and fostering a positive recovery environment. Team members will also support individuals into both abstinence-based and medically assisted forms of recovery to reduce alcohol related harm.

The role is funded through Public Health grant income and so has the broader aims of ultimately reducing the number of alcohol-related hospital admissions as well as delivering positive outcomes for individual service-users.

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We are a growing and vibrant team of professionals who work hard to improve the lives of those who need it most. If you're ready to begin work at the coalface of our life changing services, we'd love to hear from you.

TO MAKE YOUR APPLICATION - PLEASE FILL THE FORM ON OUR CAREER PAGE ON THE WEBSITE AND EMAIL IT IN TO THE EMAIL ADDRESS PROVIDED.

Job Type: Part-time

Pay: 16,951.00 per year

Expected hours: 22.5 per week

Benefits:

Free parking Health & wellbeing programme On-site parking
Work Location: In person