Job Description

Job Reference

JOB0188

Location

Gloucester

Salary

26,940 - 30,762 per annum

Vacancy Type

Fixed Term/Full Time

Working Hours

37.5 hours per week

Application Deadline

Monday, June 9, 2025

Job Summary

Make a real impact in Gloucester - support recovery, lead change, and grow with a passionate team dedicated to transforming lives.

The Role

This is an exciting opportunity to hold a mixed caseload and support other tasks including assessment, duty and groups in a thriving service, making positive changes in peoples' lives, through a non-judgmental, recovery-based approach that values the strengths and choices of those individuals.


Through joining Via you will receive a warm welcome, peer support, training, regular supervision and the chance to thrive in a lively and innovative service.


The main purpose of this role is to provide excellent quality of care to people who use our service accessing treatment for substance use and their complex needs, in partnership with our clinical team, counsellors and other professionals involved in client's care.


You will have an in-depth knowledge and experience of the challenges affecting people with substance use and related health and wellbeing issues.


Working as part of a dynamic team you will be responsible for managing a caseload of clients, to include prescribing, providing a good quality of interventions at varying stages of their recovery as well as developing and delivering a wide range of groups.


The duties are varied, and no two days will be the same.


Duties may include supporting other areas of service delivery as well as helping to take part in a wide range of special interests and activities that support health and wellbeing such as smoking cessation and local events.

The Service

Adult Drug and Alcohol Services across Gloucestershire transferred to Via on 1st April 2024. The role is part of Via's structure and provides a great opportunity to build on existing service strengths, drive new developments and make a positive impact as part of this new contract.




To see the generous range of benefits we offer at Via including 30 days annual leave for all new starters, our health and wellbeing initiatives, financial perks and development opportunities - visit our Benefits Package




This is a maternity cover fixed term contract.




For an informal chat about the role, contact

David Reynolds, Team Leader

at David.Reynolds@viaorg.uk or 01452 223014.


The closing date for applications is

Monday 9 June

.

Interviews are likely to take place on Thursday 19 June.

All our applications are sifted by humans. Please send us applications that reflect your own knowledge, experience and values and not applications that have been generated by artificial intelligence (AI).




We accept applications via https://www.viaorg.uk/work-at-via/career-paths/ using our short application form, and your CV. For guidance on how to complete the application visit https://www.viaorg.uk/work-at-via/how-to-apply/. Please submit your application as soon as possible as we may close adverts at any time if we receive a sufficient number of applications.


Via welcomes enquiries from everyone, and we value diversity in our workplace. Our commitment to promoting diversity and developing a workplace environment where all staff are treated with dignity and respect is central to our recruitment process.


We're a Disability Confident Employer and are committed to the employment and career development of disabled people. We offer an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for our jobs, please confirm in the personal statement part of our application form that you are applying under this scheme.


Appointment to all our posts are subject to satisfactory completion of our safeguarding checks including DBS and we follow safer recruiting principles.


Please email people@viaorg.uk if you have any recruitment enquiries or if you require this documentation in an accessible format.