Drug and Alcohol Worker - Bristol

Salary: £23,194 - £27,852, depending on experience

Hours: 37.5

Location: North, Bristol

Contract Type: Permanent

Additional information: DHI offers up to 31 days paid leave (service related) in addition to statutory holidays, a 7% pension contribution and Employee Assistance Scheme.

The Role

DHI are recruiting a Drug and Alcohol Worker, to support clients within North Bristol who are experiencing problematic use of drugs and/or alcohol. We are looking for people who can bring creativity and enthusiasm to supporting clients to make positive changes in their lives.

You will be joining an experienced team that work hard to support each other and deliver an exceptional service to clients.

About You

At DHI we highly value transferable skills and life experience. If you have good organisational skills, can manage relationships, solve problems, and are resilient, adaptable and flexible then we would love to hear from you.

Your background could be from anywhere where you have needed to apply problem solving and motivational skills. Teaching, ex-armed forces, customer service are all examples of just some professions where we believe these transferable skills are often found, or you may have lived experience.

Our Values

We are an award winning charity that challenges social exclusion by supporting people to achieve their potential and our values underpin this.

If you share DHI’s values of flexibility, stimulation, self- direction and zest for life, then we encourage you to apply.

We look forward to exploring these with you during the interview process should you be successful at the shortlisting stage.

What We Offer

We offer on the job support and mentoring within the team for this role, as well as training with regard to drug and alcohol related topics that are relevant to the post.

You will have the opportunity to work flexibly between home and DHI offices to support clients.

As an employee of DHI, you will have also access to our Employee Assistance Programme, our Cycle Scheme, 26 days annual leave rising to 31 days (service related), company pension scheme and Charity Worker Discounts.

Next Steps

If you’d like to know more about the role, please contact Leanne Astill, Team Leader to arrange an informal discussion.

How to apply

If you are interested in working in the substance misuse field and share DHI’s values of self-direction, stimulation and zest for life, we’d love to hear from you.

To apply for this role please provide a CV and covering letter and send to recruitment@dhi-online.org.uk by Midday 14th April 2023.

Applications will be reviewed and interviews conducted on a rolling basis, vacancies may close before the deadline, so please apply early to avoid disappointment.

Your covering letter should include the following three areas, each with a maximum of 500 words, using the following three bullets as your headers:

• Highlight how your experience matches the Essential Criteria
• State how you broadly meet the Attributes within the Person Specification
• We have 4 Values at DHI, tell us how our Values match yours

We strongly encourage you to complete our Equality & Diversity monitoring form to help us achieve a diverse workforce. The form does not form part of the selection process. Please also tell us where you found the role.