St Anne's Community Services

Community Rehab Worker

Company
Location
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Posted At
7/23/2025
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Description
Job Overview

Community Rehab Worker

37.5 hours per week

As part of the wider multi-disciplinary team at Forward Leeds, you will support individuals affected by alcohol and substance misuse in preparing for residential rehabilitation placements outside the local area. This includes providing one-to-one support, facilitating a weekly rehab preparation group, and delivering structured interventions to help service users get ready for admission.

You will play a key role in the referral process — completing all necessary paperwork relating to funding, finances, and data tracking systems. Your duties will also include transporting service users to and from out-of-area rehab facilities for assessments, admissions, and discharges, using your own vehicle (mileage reimbursed).

Collaboration is central to this role. You will work closely with case managers, other professionals, and rehab providers to ensure that each service user receives person-centred, coordinated care throughout their treatment journey.

Main duties of the job

  • You will work closely with the Team Manager and will be responsible for your own case load of service users.
  • You will organise face to face appointments and deliver therapeutic sessions including safe alcohol reduction plans, risk assessments and harm reduction/relapse prevention work.
  • You will also link in with GP’s, Healthcare Assistants, Hospital Teams, and Rehab Facilities to work holistically in supporting services users to achieve their planned treatment goals.
  • Using your own initiative to identify unmet needs within our service and work collaboratively with partnership agencies.

You will be fully supported by the Service Manager, Team Manager and Senior Detox Practitioner to deliver positive outcomes for your service users. This role is both exciting and rewarding, you will have access to fantastic learning and development opportunities to help build your skill set and knowledge.

St Annes staff based within Forward Leeds also have the added benefit of access to training and personal development opportunities via the Forward Leeds consortium.

Working for our organisation

St. Anne's wants to reward its employees for their hard work. Employee benefits include;

  • Rising 20 to 25 days plus statutory bank holidays
  • 24 Hour Employee Assistance Programme
  • Continuous opportunities for ongoing training and career development
  • Cycle To Work scheme
  • Refer A Friend recruitment initiative
  • Flexible working opportunities (where applicable) upon successful completion of probation period
  • Group Personal Pension Scheme
  • Discounted income protection scheme
  • Free car parking at most services
  • Free life assurance cove

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

You will work closely with the Team Manager and will be responsible for your own case load of service users. You will organise face to face appointments and deliver therapeutic sessions including safe alcohol reduction plans, risk assessments and harm reduction/relapse prevention work. You will also link in with GP’s, Healthcare Assistants, Hospital Teams, and Rehab Facilities to work holistically in supporting services users to achieve their planned treatment goals. Using your own initiative to identify unmet needs within our service and work collaboratively with partnership agencies. You will be fully supported by the Service Manager, Team Manager and Senior Detox Practitioner to deliver positive outcomes for your service users.

This role is both exciting and rewarding, you will have access to fantastic learning and development opportunities to help build your skill set and knowledge.

All staff are expected to take reasonable steps to ensure they complete all mandatory training requirements for their role and to ensure training is kept up to date.

Training and development is vitally important in ensuring that St. Anne’s has good quality, high performing staff to deliver services to the people we support. We have an extensive in-house training programme which helps us maintain and enhance the competencies of all staff.

St Annes staff based within Forward Leeds also have the added benefit of access to training and personal development opportunities via the Forward Leeds consortium.

Person specification

Experience

Essential criteria

  • Understanding of Substance Use and Addiction

Desirable criteria

  • Previous experience working in care (employment) preferably 1 year

Qualifications

Essential criteria

  • Holds a full UK driving licence

Desirable criteria

  • GCSE or equivalent

St. Anne’s is working to actively promote equality, diversity and inclusion.

We want people from underrepresented groups such as disabled, black and ethnic minority, Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans, and non-binary (LGBTQ+) communities to apply for all our roles.

St. Anne's is a Disability Confident employer. We are actively working to recruit and retain people with disabilities and long-term health conditions into our work force. If you are an applicant who has a disability, you will be offered an interview if you meet the essential criteria for the job. Please contact recruitment on 0113 243 5151 opt 3 if you require any reasonable adjustments.

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Applicant requirements

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

  • JD Community Rehab Worker (PDF, 312.6KB)

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name Sam Lindley Job title Team Manager Email address [email protected] Telephone number 07814 688143
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