Recovery Team Leader

Salary: £34,254 - £39,444 per annum pro rata (depending on experience)

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Location: Yate and Patchway

Contract Type: Permanent

The Role

DHI are recruiting a Team Leader to support the leadership team, staff and clients within South Gloucestershire. We are looking for someone who can bring creativity and enthusiasm to support and develop the team and service. You will be joining an experienced Drug and Alcohol Community Team that works hard to support each other and to deliver an exceptional service to our clients. As team leader you will be directly line managing a team of staff, volunteers and peers. The role is varied and interesting requiring adaptability, resilience and a positive, solution focused approach.

A Driving Licence with access to vehicle and willingness to use it for work travel is essential.

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

Alongside on the job support and mentoring we offer a variety of training to enable the successful candidate to develop and thrive within this role including motivational interviewing, relapse prevention, professional boundaries and training with regard to drug and alcohol related topics that are relevant to the post.

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

Next Steps

If you’d like to know more about the role contact Rachel Barnes [email protected] to arrange an informal discussion.

How to apply

To apply for this role please complete the application form by 5pm Tuesday 2nd November. Interviews will be held on a rolling basis, we encourage you to apply early.

All applicants are required to submit a statement that is part of the application form that should address the following questions in no more than 500 words.

• State how you meet the requirements within the Person Specification

• What do our core values mean to you in relation to this role

Application form

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