The Scottish Recovery Consortium (SRC) is seeking a collaborative, proactive and values-driven individual to join our Experiential Team as a MIST National Officer (Experiential Team).

This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the implementation and ongoing development of the Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) Standards, helping to improve access to treatment and related services and reduce drug-related deaths and harms in Scotland.

Working closely with SRC colleagues and in partnership with Public Health Scotland’s Medication Assisted Treatment Standards Implementation Support Team (MIST), you will play an important role in supporting the development of the experiential agenda. You will help ensure that the voices and experiences of people accessing services, family members inform quality improvement and service development across Scotland.

The role involves building strong relationships with a wide range of partners, including Alcohol and Drug Partnerships, NHS services, Health and Social Care Partnerships, third sector organisations, grassroots recovery communities, and people with lived and living experience.

We are looking for someone with excellent relationship-building skills, a strong commitment to a human rights-based approach, and the ability to work collaboratively across national and local structures to support learning, engagement and continuous improvement.

Benefits include:

• 10% pension contribution
• Life assurance
• 28 days annual leave plus public holidays

If you are passionate about recovery, rights-based practice and making a meaningful difference in Scotland’s alcohol and drug sector, we would love to hear from you.

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 person’s 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, East Renfrewshire and North Lanarkshire, 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 the counsellor is to provide a counselling, advice and information service for individuals aged 16 and over with their own problematic alcohol or drugs use. The service is delivered from our offices in Glasgow and within community settings throughout Glasgow and surrounding areas.

The Counsellor will report to the Counselling Practice Manager.

This post requires a Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme membership - successful applicants will be required to join the PVG Scheme for both adults and children.

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 person’s 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, East Renfrewshire and North Lanarkshire, 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 Counselling Practice Manager

The Counselling Practice Manager will lead and manage Murray’s Initiative’s Integrated Counselling Services, which includes commissioned counselling services for adults seeking support for their alcohol and / or drug use and a privately funded wellbeing counselling service.

The Counselling Practice Manager will manage and support all counsellors working in Glasgow, East Dunbartonshire, East Renfrewshire and North Lanarkshire, student placements from the Murray’s Initiative Diploma and volunteer counsellors. The post holder will contribute to service delivery by managing a small caseload of clients. The post holder will support the Head of Client Services/Deputy CEO in managing and co-ordinating a high-quality service within Murray’s Initiative, whilst ensuring that staff counsellors, volunteers, and students receive appropriate supervision, support, and guidance.

As part of the Service Management Team, the Counselling Practice Manager will develop, influence and drive forward the strategy for Murray’s Initiative.

The Counselling Practice Manager will report to the Head of Client Services / Deputy CEO.

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

We have an exciting and rewarding opportunity to join the Phoenix Futures Glasgow based Housing Services, in our new position of Living Skills Worker.

If you are looking for an organisation that values your energy, ideas and passion we’d like to speak to you. As a specialist addiction recovery charity and housing association, we have developed considerable expertise in the provision of housing to support our clients at all stages of their recovery. You will ideally have a background in housing, homelessness, addictions or a related field and have experience of working with multiple stakeholders to deliver outstanding services that meet local needs. In return for your commitment, we offer a generous salary and benefits package and flexible working.

About You

Are you ready to make a profound impact on people's lives? We're seeking an extraordinary person to support the success of our new residential rehab service. Your experience should include:

• SVQ level 3 or above compliant or equivalent qualification, or completion/willingness to complete an agreed number of modules in your probationary period
• Commitment to on-going learning and development
• Relevant experience of work in the field of substance use or other comparable field
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills as well as being able to present practical living skills
• Actively demonstrate the values and beliefs of the organisation

Your Rewards

• Opportunity for pay increments on appraisal meaning salary can increase to £28, 000
• Benefits including season ticket loan, pension scheme and life assurance
• Support through occupational sick pay, eye-care vouchers and regular wellbeing talks and activities
• Continuous training and career development via PXL our dedicated learning management system
• Access to a 24/7 Employee Assistance programme including telephone and online access

The Role

You will support individuals to sustain and maintain their recovery and support with re-integration into the wider community by facilitating 1:1 and groupwork. You will assist individuals in developing their own skills, including tenancy sustainment and practical living skills, in the next stage of their treatment and to resettle within the local community and society. This will also include working as part of a team to provide quality accommodation and support services for vulnerable adults within a safe and secure environment. Additionally, you will be the lead with the Recovery Through Nature (RTN) programme within the service, supporting all RTN work within Glasgow.

As well as supporting the individuals in our services you will support family members and loved ones of the individuals that access the service and assist and facilitate family support groups for those that are accessing Phoenix services.

The Glasgow Housing service currently provides ongoing aftercare support for individuals on completion of a range of residential rehabilitation stays, and therefore you will assist all clients in sustaining long-term recovery.

The Service

Our Glasgow Housing Service is a supported accommodation consisting of 10 flats, housing up to 16 individuals. All our residents have completed a residential rehabilitation programme prior to entering the service. Tenancy sustainment skills and maintaining their recovery is at the forefront of what the service provides. Residents will stay at the service for up to 6 months in preparation for moving to their own tenancy and living independently. We also provide an aftercare service to ensure the transition of moving into their own house is a smooth as possible and the individual continues to receive the support they need.

About Phoenix Futures

Phoenix Futures Group is a charity with nearly 60 years’ experience and a leading provider of drug and alcohol treatment.

Our values are what define us and ensure we work to the highest standards. We believe in being the best, we are passionate about recovery, we value our history and use it to inform our future.

We work with local authorities, other charities and service providers across the country to deliver innovative programmes and projects that change lives for the better, setting people on the path to health and emotional wellbeing.

We provide a diverse range of services, our expertise in psychosocial treatment and support is the common thread that runs through everything we do. People need psychological interventions, social support, meaningful use of time, sense of purpose and a place of safety to sustain their recovery. At our core, we support people, families and communities to recover from drug and alcohol dependency.