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About the Role
The Hospital Liaison Recovery Worker will act as a vital link between acute hospital services and community drug and alcohol services. This role involves working closely with hospital staff to offer advice, guidance, and training on substance misuse, and identifying alternatives to unnecessary admissions. The worker will also support individuals who present repeatedly, collaborating with wider services to break cycles of substance misuse.
Responsibilities
- Build effective communication and referral pathways between the hospital and community addiction services.
- Act as the key liaison for acute referrals, providing timely and professional advice to hospital teams.
- Deliver alcohol and drug assessments using recognised screening tools (e.g. AUDIT), offering brief interventions and onward referral.
- Develop strong working relationships across A&E, Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and other specialist wards.
- Provide advanced assessment, planning and evaluation for a small, complex caseload, ensuring safe transitions from hospital to community care.
- Support hospital staff in identifying and managing patients with substance use issues, offering guidance, awareness sessions and training.
- Work with community recovery teams to ensure assertive and effective follow-up of repeat presentations and discharges.
- Participate in service audits and research to improve practice and outcomes.
Requirements
- Strong understanding of substance misuse and its impact on health and wellbeing.
- Experience delivering brief interventions or working within hospital, health or substance-use settings.
- Excellent communication and relationship-building skills — able to work confidently with hospital colleagues, patients and partner agencies.
- Proactive and able to work autonomously while maintaining strong team connections.
- Skilled in prioritising workload, managing competing demands and working compassionately in fast-paced environments.
- Knowledge of safeguarding and mental health practice.
- A commitment to continuous learning and improving outcomes for people we support.
- Applicants must already have the right to work in the UK at the time of application.
- This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.
Skills
- Substance misuse
- Brief interventions
- Hospital settings
- Health settings
- Substance-use settings
- Communication
- Relationship-building
- Prioritising workload
- Managing competing demands
- Safeguarding
- Mental health practice
Location
- Barnet
Work Type
- Full-time
- 37.5 hours per week
- Weekend working
- Out-of-hours working
Experience Level
- Experience delivering brief interventions or working within hospital, health or substance-use settings.
Salary/Compensations
- CGL points 23 to 28 (£28,557.79 - £32,802.41)
- Outer London Weighting (£2,250.61)
Benefits
- 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays), rising by one day each year up to 30 days.
- A paid Wellness Hour each week, plus access to our Wellness Hub and Employee Assistance Programme.
- Contributory pension scheme.
- A wide range of benefits, including discounts on shopping, cinema, travel and more.
- A friendly, supportive and collaborative team environment.
- Comprehensive training, professional development and career progression opportunities.
- A Refer a Friend scheme.
About the Company
- At Change Grow Live, our values — be open, be compassionate, be bold — shape everything we do.
- Every day, our teams help people change the direction of their lives, grow as individuals and live life to its full potential.
- We Thrive by recruiting for success, recognising and rewarding effort.
- We are safe, healthy, agile and flexible in how we work.
- Everyone at Change Grow Live experiences a sense of belonging — we are inclusive, we engage and connect at all levels, and we create the conditions for success for people who work and volunteer with us.
Equal Opportunity
- This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at an enhanced level.