Chesterfield Substance Misuse Practitioner (Alcohol)

Are you experienced, skilled, and passionate about making a difference to people's lives? We're looking for a dedicated Substance Misuse Practitioner to engage and assess people who use our service, ensuring they receive timely and personalised support that meets their individual set of circumstances and needs.

This specific role will involve managing your own caseload of individuals accessing treatment for support to address their alcohol use. Within this role you will conduct assessments and 121 appointments which will involve offering a range of harm reduction techniques and structured key work sessions. You will work in a all-inclusive way with people accessing our service, which will include communicating with other professionals, making referrals to other services, completing risk assessments and developing recovery-focused care plans which aim to support individuals to improve their health and well-being and achieve their personalised treatment goals. You will work closely with our dedicated alcohol clinical team as you support people to reduce their alcohol use, which may also involve preparing them to complete community/in-patient detoxes and/rehab, with robust aftercare and relapse prevention support.

This role will involve working 22.5 hours per week over 3 days, within our office opening hours of Monday-Friday 9am-5pm. You will be based in our Chesterfield office (S41 7TH) in northern Derbyshire. This role is offering a permanent contract.

If you want to help other people change their lives, we'd love to have you in our team. You'll give people support and inspiration that will help them change their lives for the better.

We are keen to hear from anyone with experience of working with drug/alcohol use, and/or has lived experience, who is motivated and passionate about recovery.

• Opportunity to access potential yearly salary increments subject to appraisal, meaning potential salary increase up to £27,500 (pro rata)


• 25 days' annual leave plus Bank Holidays (increasing each year to a maximum of 30 days) (pro rata)


• 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


• A rewarding role with the opportunity to help us support people on their journey to recovery and change their lives for the better.


• We'll ensure you get all the support you need to thrive and succeed in your role and find your place amongst our incredible and collaborative team.


Phoenix Futures Group is a charity with over 50 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. We encourage and welcome
applications from people of all backgrounds and believe it is important to include people with lived experience to ensure the needs of the people we support are represented. We are committed to creating an inclusive working environment where everyone is free to be themselves and we ensure equity of opportunity.