Are you someone who enjoys a varied workload and who is passionate about promoting recovery? The role of Recovery Development Worker ensures a focus on building and strengthening visible recovery within and across communities. You may have lived experience of recovery or have skills and experience in a similar role. This role requires energy, enthusiasm and adaptability across the 7-day working week. Some evening and weekend work is critical to our operational delivery. The role demands a solution focused and strengths-based approach when working with all Recovery Scotland stakeholders.

About the job

The Recovery Development Worker is suited to an individual with "lived" and/or “learned” experience of recovery from problematic substance use or addictive behaviours, such as problem gambling, or someone who has been directly affected by another person’s substance use or addictive behaviours.

This experience of recovery and resilience can instil hope and is a powerful example within recovery communities. Individuals with lived experience of substance use must be at least 24 months free from problematic substance use and not engaging with services.

The post holder will be required to join the PVG scheme.

About you

You will be someone who thrives in a small, enthusiastic, and committed team. Your experience and skills of promoting recovery can be evidenced and you are adaptable, can use your initiative and be confident with autonomous working. Using your lived experience or work experience you foster positive and trusting relationships and you can demonstrate a focus on recovery and resilience. You will have excellent organisational and self-motivation skills. You are committed to developing your skills further and passionate about lifelong learning.

You will be dedicated and compassionate when working with the Recovery Scotland team and with community members, families, volunteers, and external partners.

About Recovery Scotland

Recovery Scotland is a charity working with local and national partners to support and promote recovery from substance use by ensuring lived experience is visible, included and represented. We work with communities supporting a wide range of recovery focused activities and educational opportunities. We work within local and national guidelines promoting resilience and recovery with individuals, families, and communities.

Our work champions community membership, volunteering, self-management, and personal and professional development.

Change Grow Live are a charity dedicated to the belief that we can make a difference to our Service Users lives, offering support and respect in a safe environment, treating each user as an individual and working with them to find the right treatment and care options.

Our core values are ‘Be open, be compassionate and be bold’ and our team members apply these daily to achieve our mission of helping people change the direction of their lives, grow as individuals, and live life to its full potential.

We are currently recruiting a Support Worker to work as part of a multidisciplinary team, ensuring access to a wide variety of services and interventions throughout all stages of the service users recovery journey.

Support Workers work as part of a forward looking, flexible and creative team. Our services are user focused and aspirational in their work with our service users to realise their identified goals, including the attainment of the highest quality of life possible, social reintegration, and sustained reduction in drug/alcohol use.

Where:Edinburgh

Hours:Part time, 30 hrs per week

Full Time Salary:£25,077.00 pro rata

Full-time hours at Change Grow Live are 37.5 hours per week. For part-time roles, the salary and all payments will be paid pro rata based on contracted hours.

Responsibilities

About the role:

• To support the provision of the service’s key activities; assessment, implementation, monitoring and review of recovery plans; structured psychosocial support, group work, peer led interventions, and planned treatment exit.
• To deliver effective engagement and harm reduction interventions as required by service users presenting with a wide range of drug or alcohol issues.
• To support service users, under the guidance of recovery coordinators, to access the full range of provision within the recovery orientated system of care, maximising benefits and recovery capital towards sustained recovery and community re-integration.
• To co-deliver support activities and interventions alongside the multi-disciplinary team, external agencies, peers and volunteers.
• To work with the recovery coordinator to build and develop the service user’s personal strengths, social networks and recovery capital.
• To effectively and proactively signpost service users into a rage of health and social care services that will support their recovery.
• To adhere to the implementation of all risk management procedures including child and adult protection protocols and guidelines taking personal responsibility for keeping up to date on the requirements of these procedures.
• To fully inform service users about their recovery/treatment options, involve them in decisions and consent and encourage them to take opportunities to achieve a sustained recovery.
• To form productive working relationships with external agencies and professionals, existing and new, to ensure service users have access to a wide range of recovery and community.

About you:

• Experience in providing a range of evidence-based treatment/support interventions within a Health and Social Care setting (through paid or voluntary work).
• Basic understanding and knowledge of the harmful effects associated with drugs and/or alcohol use in relation to health, social welfare, housing, employability and personal relationships.
• Basic knowledge and understanding of interventions available to substance users.
• Basic knowledge and understanding of policies related to the safeguarding of children and vulnerable adults and how these influence practice.
• An understanding of models of recovery and wider community service provision in supporting recovery.
• Understanding of principles of effective record keeping and administration processes.
• A good general standard of education to Standard Grade/GCSE level or equivalent including English. S/NVQ Level 2 in Health and Social Care or equivalent level experience.
• Work effectively with colleagues and partnership agencies.
• Show a capacity to work on your own initiative and the ability to keep calm under pressure.
• Effectively time manage and prioritise tasks both independently and as part of a team.

What we will give to you:

• 27 days of annual leave, plus bank holidays(6). Additionally, you'll receive one extra day of annual leave for each year of service during your first five years, therefore you will enjoy 32 days of leave after five years with us.
• Paid ‘Wellness’ hour each week along with a ‘Wellness’ hub and Employee Assist Programme
• Contributory pension scheme
• A great selection of benefits incl. discounts for shopping, cinema, holidays, etc.
• A friendly and supportive team
• Training, career development & progression opportunities
• Refer a Friend and receive vouchers if candidate successful

If this sounds like you and you’d like to begin your journey with Change Grow Live, then we’d love to talk to you

Direct applications only — we will not be engaging agencies for this vacancy.

Please note: This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Applicants must already have the right to work in the UK at the time of application. For applicants with time-limited visas, unfortunately, we are unable to support new visa applications or extensions. More information about eligible roles and occupations can be found here: Skilled Worker visa: Overview - GOV.UK

Scottish Recovery Consortium (SRC) is looking for a pro-active, team player to join the team to work within our Prison and Healthcare project.

As an employee of the Scottish Recovery Consortium (SRC), reporting to the Prison Recovery Development Lead. The successful post holder will have a unique opportunity to work within Scottish Prisons establishments developing and promoting peer lead recovery initiatives, creating a culture of recovery across the Scottish prison service by supporting the development of an operational approach to the “Recovery from Within” project, which works in collaboration with all stakeholders and promotes a person-centred approach to Recovery

The role involves facilitate groups delivering SRC’s “Recovery from Within” learning offerings to residents and staff across the prison service with a focus on developing community assets and supporting sustainable peer led Recovery development within prisons.

Your role will be to:

• Facilitate the delivery of SRC “Recovery from Within” learning offerings to residents, staff and partners developing greater awareness of the experience of addiction and recovery within key institutions
• Build relationships that will support the continuum of recovery for residents which compliments the core work and traditional approaches of prisons, substance use services, criminal justice and healthcare systems.

Scottish Drugs Forum (SDF) is looking for a driven, strategic, and values-led Senior Learning and Development Officer – Drug Trends and Emergency Responses to lead our work in this area at a time when Scotland’s response to drug-related issues requires urgency and strong leadership.

About Us

Scottish Drugs Forum (SDF) is Scotland’s national resource of expertise on drugs and drug use. Established in 1986, we are a membership-based charity working towards our vision of a Scotland free from drug-related health and social harm, through compassionate, inclusive, and evidence-informed policy and practice.

Our mission is to improve the country’s response to drug-related issues through compassionate, inclusive, and evidence-informed policy and practice. We bring together people with lived and living experience, service providers, researchers, and decision-makers to create a more humane and effective approach to drugs - one that recognises dignity, reduces stigma, and saves lives.

About the Role

The Workforce Development Team deliver a wide range of learning and development opportunities aimed at enhancing the skills, knowledge and confidence of the workforce who engage with people experiencing problems with alcohol and drugs across Scotland.

The Senior Learning and Development Officer for Drug Trends and Emergency Responses plays a pivotal role in enhancing Scotland’s capacity to address emerging drug trends and in leading preparedness and coordinated responses to incidents, outbreaks, and clusters of harm.

This role offers an exciting opportunity join one of Scotland’s most respected drugs policy organisations.

What We’re Looking For

We’re seeking someone who is:

• A skilled communicator with a deep understanding of Scotland’s drug landscape.

• A strategic thinker who can balance reactive work with long-term planning.

• Confident in working collaboratively.

• Passionate about inclusion, human rights, and amplifying the voices of people with lived and living experience.

What You’ll Get

• The chance to make a real difference at a national level.

• A supportive, flexible working environment committed to staff wellbeing and development.

• Generous holiday allowance and pension contribution.

• Ongoing opportunities for learning and professional growth.