Are you someone who enjoys a varied workload and who is passionate about promoting recovery?

The role of Recovery Worker involves working with the Team Lead and colleagues to 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 keen to work in a small, enthusiastic, and committed team. You are excited to develop your experience and skills in promoting recovery. Using your lived experience or volunteering/work experience, you can demonstrate a focus on recovery and resilience. You are open to develop your organisational and team working 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. We do this 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.

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.

Are you a compassionate and motivated individual who wants to change people’s lives? Our team in Argyll and Bute is looking for a Team Leader - if you are enthusiastic, creative and passionate about helping others, we’d love to hear from you.

As a leading charity supporting people with drug, alcohol, and mental health challenges, we operate over 80 services across England and Scotland, providing free and confidential support to more than 100,000 people each year.Find out more about us here.

Job Description

As a Team Leader, we offer a starting salary of £30,000, rising each year in line with our pay progression salary bands, to £36,000 per year. For further details please reach out to a member of the recruitment team via recruitment@wearewithyou.org.uk.

We are seeking a dedicated Team Leader to join the Argyll and Bute Recovery Service. This is an exciting opportunity to play an important role in the local recovery-oriented system of care (ROSC), working alongside NHS and third-sector partners to reduce harm and promote positive change for individuals impacted by drug and alcohol use.

Our team covers all of Argyll and Bute through an outreach delivery model. We provide a comprehensive range of support, including harm reduction, psychosocial interventions, rapid response and rehabilitation pathways. Our service is highly regarded by those we support, with client feedback consistently highlighting the quality of care and the values-driven dedication of our staff.

This is a fixed term role, until May 2027, working 37.5 hours per week.

Company Benefits

• 28 days annual leave, plus bank holidays
• An extra day off for your birthday or a special occasion of your choice
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• 2 days paid volunteer leave per year
• Auto-enrollment into We Are With You’s pension scheme
• Access to a Blue Light Card - giving you great savings on big high-street and online brands
• Flexible working opportunities and access to a range of services and resources to support you with your wellbeing
• We have an excellent Refer a Friend scheme which offers you a £500 bonus for any recommendations, any role! Our scheme allows you to recommend your friends and family to work with us and earn a £500 bonus payment for every successful referral you make. Please note, the Refer a Friend scheme is only applicable if your recommended friend completes their 6 months probation period

Essential Skills

You will partner with the Service Manager to support and grow the service. Your mission is twofold: consolidate our high-quality provision and expand our reach by increasing referrals through active community engagement.

You will be:

• A natural collaborator - you excel at building professional bridges with partners and community groups
• Proactive - you make things happen — you see an opportunity to improve the service or work in partnership and you explore it
• Flexible - you are happy to be based in Oban or Dunoon, but you enjoy the variety of traveling across Argyll and Bute. You will combine your Team Leader duties with a small caseload
• Able to travel - you must be a driver with your own car. Occasional overnight stays are part of the role, with all expenses covered

Secondments - because this role is fixed-term, due to contract cycles, we are highly supportive of inward secondment requests, from people with relevant experience.

Interested candidates are encouraged to contact Rachel McLean, Service Manager on 07855 167 421 or at rachel.mclean@wearewithyou.org.uk.

Carers of West Dunbartonshire is an innovative and value-based charity, which supports those over 18 years who look after a family member or friend due to illness, disability, frailty or addiction.

The successful candidate will be part of our existing, dynamic Carer Support Team. You will be responsible for assisting carers to access a range of support which will help them to manage their caring role.

You will be a highly motivated individual who, ideally has experience in Community Care and a good understanding of the issues relating to unpaid adult carers.