Chesterfield Trainee Drug and Alcohol Practitioner

Want to develop a career working in substance use treatment? Then come to work with our dedicated team, committed to supporting a change in the lives of those using drugs and alcohol in our trainee role.

This role will be based at our Chesterfield office, working 37.5 hours per week Monday‑Friday 9am‑5pm on a fixed term contract for 6 months. There may be opportunities to apply for other permanent roles within the service during the traineeship.

We are looking for a Trainee Drug and Alcohol Practitioner to complete assessments, co‑facilitate groups and manage a smaller caseload of service users presenting with drug and alcohol issues. You will be supported in growing your knowledge of drug and alcohol work through our 6‑month traineeship, where you will be supported to develop competencies associated with a substance use practitioner through a mixture of training, coaching, shadowing and practice‑based learning.

The role will involve assessing service users entering treatment identifying their treatment need with the treatment goal, offering a range of harm reduction interventions and structured key working, helping engage service users in a care‑planned and recovery‑focussed way to attain improved health outcomes and achieve their personalised treatment goals.

This will involve you effectively organising and delivering 1‑2‑1 care‑planned support and facilitating group work sessions as required, using appropriate models, interventions and approaches tailored to meet the individual needs of service users. Furthermore, you will support them in their individual, person‑centred journey to build recovery capital by partnership working with other support agencies and local projects. You will work closely with specialist teams within our service, including recovery connectors, employment workers, rehab workers, counsellors and clinical colleagues.

Full role training and shadowing opportunities will be included in your induction.

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.

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 looking for a Trainee Drug and Alcohol Practitioner to join our Chesterfield team, which are based in the central Chesterfield area of north Derbyshire. This wonderful, diverse team is knowledgeable and supportive, with a wealth of knowledge to impart.

We are keen to hear from anyone with experience of working within the field of drug and alcohol use, and/or has lived experience, or from someone who may not have experience with drugs/alcohol but is very motivated and passionate about recovery and supporting others.

We welcome applications from individuals that have good communication skills, both written and verbal, are highly motivated, can use their own initiative, and have good organisational and diary management skills. Administrative skills are also vital for this role to maintain good record keeping, have a keen eye for data detail and confidence updating Excel spreadsheets. As this role is outreach satellite site based, we require candidates to have a driving licence with access to a vehicle for work and be confident in outreach working.