Job Description

Recovery Coordinator - Reconnect to Health - HMP Durham

Location: HMP Durham, Old Elvet, DH1 3HU

Working Hours: 37 hours per week Monday to Friday 08:00am-16:00pm
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary:£25,877.80-£34,240

Please note: The salary listed reflects the full earning potential for this role. Starting salaries depend on experience and progression within the band.

About Waythrough

Waythrough was formed in 2024 following the merger of Humankind and Richmond Fellowship. Together, we’ve created one of the largest mental health and social support charities in England.

Every year, we support around 125,000 people through nearly 200 services – and it’s all made possible by our 3,500 brilliant staff and volunteers.

Make a real difference in your community

Are you passionate about helping others live safer, healthier, more independent lives? Join our team at Waythrough and support people facing challenges around mental health, substance use, housing or domestic abuse. This is more than just a job – it’s a chance to build meaningful relationships and create lasting change.

About the Role

To work as part of a team to provide collaborative recovery planning and case management to substance misusers (drug and alcohol) and their families across all stages of individuals’ recovery journeys, from assessment and engagement through to sustained recovery. You will work collaboratively with colleagues based within prisons and community treatment services, to support individuals both whilst in custody, through to release.

What You’ll Do

• Provide specialist, tailored support to enable service users to make positive changes.
• Complete comprehensive assessments for individuals who require support from the Drug and Alcohol Recovery Team in HMP Durham.
• Effectively manage a caseload of service users, reviewing and updating on-going processes such as risk assessments and personalised recovery plans.
• Work closely and collaboratively within the multi-disciplinary team across the service and externally, through attendance at reviews, to support individuals in their recovery journey.
• Support the facilitation of psychosocial interventions that meet local need across both group work and one to one formats.
• The role involves effective use of an online case management system.
• Promote visible recovery across the service and ensure peer support opportunities are relevant and accessible for all service users.
• Ensure safeguarding processes are fully adhered to, identifying and preventing potential harm to service users and others by following local and organisational safeguarding guidelines, including referral to and engagement with relevant safeguarding authorities

To Succeed in This Role, You’ll Need:

• A desire to support individuals with substance misuse issues, through their recovery journey.
• Knowledge of harm reduction approaches in relation to substance misuse.
• Understanding of and ability to implement interventions, including brief interventions MI, PSIs, CBT and ITEP.
• Working with models of service delivery and issues relating to recovery planning.
• Working with best practice frameworks e.g. NICE, DOH, NTA, NMC, Care Quality Commission & Caldicott Standards.
• Delivering one to one and group therapeutic interventions.
• Excellent partnership and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Ability to maintain professional boundaries and resilience whilst supporting individuals intensively, sometimes in stressful situations.

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What We Offer

We value the people who make a difference every day. Alongside meaningful work, you’ll enjoy a comprehensive benefits package:

• 27 days’ annual leave, rising to 32 after 1 year (plus bank holidays)

• Pension scheme with 4.5% employer contribution, matched up to 6.5%

• Life assurance (3× annual salary)

• Enhanced sick pay and family-friendly pay

• Birthday leave and the option to buy up to 5 extra days’ annual leave

• Professional fee reimbursement for relevant qualifications

• 24/7 online GP access and Employee Assistance Programme

• Recognition and long service awards via our Way to Go and Aspirations portals

• £500 Recommend a Friend bonus

• Cycle to Work scheme and Credit Union membership

• Discounts via Blue Light Card, Charity Discounts, Extras and Tickets for Good

• Free will writing service and wellbeing initiatives throughout the year

Inclusion and accessibility

Waythrough is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and communities, especially those with lived experience of the issues we support.

We have signed up to the Disability Confident Scheme - all applicants are welcome, and adjustments can be made to enable fair participation.

If you need adjustments or support to apply, please email our recruitment team: recruitmentteam@waythrough.org.uk

Closing Date:

2026-06-12