Moving On Inverclyde is developing an extended-hours Harm Reduction and Stabilisation Service in partnership with Inverclyde Alcohol and Drug Recovery Service (ADRS).

This service supports adults following a non-fatal overdose or identified high-risk alcohol or drug incident. Our focus is straightforward: safety, stabilisation, and reconnection at critical points of vulnerability.

We are seeking a Senior Harm Reduction and Stabilisation Practitioner to lead this developing service. You will provide oversight during extended hours, support proportionate risk decision-making, supervise practitioners, and ensure consistent, trauma-informed practice.

This is a non-clinical role. Clinical assessment and prescribing remain the responsibility of NHS partners.

The service operates seven days per week between 9am and 10pm. Regular evening and weekend working is essential.

We are looking for someone who:

• Has significant experience supporting adults affected by substance use
• Is confident managing risk and making sound decisions
• Can provide calm leadership in dynamic situations
• Works well within partnership settings
• Shares our harm reduction and recovery values

We recognise the value of lived experience and the insight it can bring. We welcome applications from individuals who combine personal insight with the skills and experience required for this role.

Full UK driving licence required.

This is an opportunity to shape a new pathway within Inverclyde — strengthening safety, partnership working and recovery at moments when support matters most.

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

About Us:

Murray’s Initiative (formally known as Glasgow Council on Alcohol) is an independent Scottish charity that works to reduce alcohol and drug-related harm at both individual and community levels. Established in 1965, Murray’s Initiative adopts a long-term, trauma-informed and asset-based approach to changing the culture around substance use. Its services are built on a person-centred, harm-reduction model, supporting people whether their goal is to reduce consumption or achieve abstinence.

Murray’s Initiative offers free, confidential counselling services for people concerned about their own or someone else's drinking. Murray’s Initiative delivers a range of interventions including groupwork and employability support as well as a number of holistic and inclusive services, such as a women’s service for survivors of gender-based violence, young persons peer education service, LGBTQ+ health and wellbeing support and tailored wellbeing programmes.

Murray’s Initiative is also a recognised provider of professional development, offering a comprehensive training portfolio including education aimed at increasing awareness of alcohol use and promoting healthier lifestyles, COSCA Counselling Skills and a Diploma in Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy.

Murray’s Initiative deliver services over 6 days per week and throughout Glasgow, East Dunbartonshire and East Renfrewshire, helping people make meaningful, positive change in their lives.

The foundation of Murray’s Initiative is our supportive and inclusive culture for all who engage and work with us.

About the Role:

The role of Community Engagement Worker is to provide a community-based Alcohol Brief Intervention (ABI) service in the wider community and primary care settings within Greater Glasgow in partnership with other statutory, voluntary and community agencies within the area.

As part of the role, the Community Engagement Worker will host alcohol information stalls in communities across Greater Glasgow to talk to members of the public about alcohol consumption and provide evidence based screenings and interventions.

The postholder will also be support the wider Education & Development team on delivery of the Alcohol Brief Interventions Skills training.

Travel throughout Greater Glasgow will be essential for this role.

The Community Engagement Worker will report to the Service Manager – Education & Development.

This post requires membership of the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme for protected adults. Successful applicants will be required to join the PVG Scheme.

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.