Change Grow Live
Recovery Worker
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Overview
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At Change Grow Live, we're driven by the belief that we can truly impact the lives of our service users. We offer a safe, supportive environment, honouring each individual and working collaboratively to identify the best treatment and care options. Our core values - 'Be open, be compassionate, and be bold' - guide us daily as we help people reshape their lives, grow as individuals, and embrace life to the fullest.
Exciting Opportunity: Recovery Worker (focusing on alcohol dependence)
Are you experienced, skilled, and passionate about making a meaningful difference? We are recruiting for a Recovery Worker to join our Barnet service to engage and assess our service users, ensuring they receive timely, personalised interventions that cater to their unique needs.
- Where: Barnet
- Full Time Hours: 37.5 per week
- Contract Type: Permanent
Full-time hours at Change Grow Live are 37.5 hours per week. For part-time roles, the salary and payments will be pro rata based on contracted hours.
Responsibilities
About the Role:
- Supporting service users from point of entry into the service and through their treatment/recovery journey
- Providing screening, assessment, and recovery planning and onward referral
- Reducing alcohol related harm to service users and the wider community
- Promoting carer, service user, and community involvement
- Providing advocacy for access to partnership services
- Working with service users to support social (re)integration, enabling them to lead meaningful and purposeful lives: promoting recovery, resilience, peer support, and self-determination
- Research, design, and prepare subject matter and materials for groups/pods
- Deliver structured content within group settings to service users at various stages of recovery
- Engage with debriefing and evaluations with co-facilitators after groups/pods have taken place, reviewing progress and identifying concerns with service users
- Tailor specific workshops around the needs of the service users, such as: anger management, sleep disorders, relationships, etc
- Supporting the alcohol team with the monthly community detox
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About You:
- Have a strong understanding of substance misuse issues and experience of working within a similar field
- Experience of working with groups/pods and managing group dynamics, such as conflict or challenging behaviour
- Be an excellent communicator, both verbal and written, with good IT skills
- Proactive and able to work on your own initiative with excellent time management and prioritising skills
- Have a good working knowledge of mental health interventions, services, and good practice
- Be a supportive team player with strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work in partnership with a wide range of professionals, agencies, and internal/external stakeholders
- Ability to manage change successfully in a way that prioritises the needs of service users
- Understand the importance of information governance processes and commit to following and applying all necessary safeguards
- Seek out learning opportunities to improve and broaden your professional knowledge and skills and to contribute and oversee the learning and development of others
What We Will Give to You:
- 25 days holiday (+ bank holidays) rising by 1 day for each year's service “Capped at 30 days”
- Paid ‘Wellness’ hour each week along with a ‘Wellness’ hub and Employee Assist Programme
- Contributory pension scheme
- Several benefits including discounts for shopping, cinema, holidays, etc.
- A friendly and supportive team
- Training, career development & progression opportunities
- Generous Refer-a-Friend Scheme
Important Notes:
- Direct applications only — we will not be engaging agencies for this vacancy.
- 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
- We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if we receive a high number of applications, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
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We look forward to learning more about you.
Salary Range (pro rata if part time)
CGL points 23 to 28 (£28,557.79 - £32,802.41)
ILW / OLW / Fringe
Outer London Weighting (£2,250.61)
Interview Date
7/9/2026
Closing Date
31/8/2026
If you have any questions on this opportunity that you would like to talk through, please contact us using the below details:
Lucy Gardner | lucy.gardner@cgl.org.uk
This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at an enhanced level.
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