Recovery Coordinator

Overview

Full Time, Fixed Term until 31 March 2028. The Substance Use Support Team (SUST) is in its sixth year working with individuals experiencing multiple disadvantages, supporting their engagement with drug and alcohol services and helping them maintain their accommodation.

As part of the Trauma Informed Recovery Pathway you will:

• Work with people experiencing complex challenges, including a history of rough sleeping and homelessness, across a range of accommodation types.
• Manage challenges, adapt approaches to engagement, communicate clearly, and support positive change.
• Collaborate closely with Horizons Bristol (Drug and Alcohol Services), housing providers, Adult Social Care, health care and allied services to ensure holistic support and treatment is wrapped around each client.
• Prepare and coordinate admission to detox and residential rehabilitation placements.
• Work independently across the city, applying a proactive, holistic approach to support clients through diverse challenges.
• Support clients in accessing appropriate move‑on housing and homelessness services.
• Present ideas and feedback from the frontline to contribute to project development and to a team environment that encourages growth and best practice.

We are looking for an individual who:

• Has significant experience working with this client group and a good understanding of drug and alcohol interventions.
• Is familiar with harm reduction approaches and can support people through change.
• Can work independently across the city while collaborating effectively with housing and homelessness services.
• Can communicate clearly, adapt engagement strategies, and manage complex challenges.
• Is able to contribute to a supportive team environment that encourages mutual support and best practice.

Participants will receive:

• Flexible working and flexi‑time.
• Membership of the Local Government Pension scheme.
• A generous annual leave allowance.
• Enhanced DBS check as part of the recruitment process.

We are a Disability Confident employer and actively support disabled people in the recruitment and retention process, guaranteeing interview rights where the essential criteria are met. We also welcome and promote people from all sections of the community, ensuring a diverse workforce that reflects the communities we serve.

To be shortlisted you must demonstrate how you meet each of the essential criteria in the Person Specification. If you can also meet desirable criteria, those will be considered in the shortlist.

For any further discussion about the post please contact Joe Roberts (Team Leader).