Job Description
Job summary
Join our team as a Lived Experience Support Worker in Liskeard.
Are you a compassionate and motivated individual who wants to change peoples lives? Our Liskeard Community Drug and Alcohol service is looking for a Lived Experience Support Worker to join them in providing high quality recovery care to a diverse client group. If you are looking for a role where you can connect with and support people who are using drugs or alcohol using your own lived experience, and are passionate about changing peoples lives for the better, wed love to hear from you.
As a Lived Experience Support Worker in Cornwall youll join us on a salary of £27,250 per annum pro rata (this includes a £1,000 per annum allowance). This role is permanent and part time working 18.75 hours per week.
Please note that having experienced your own journey with drugs or alcohol and being willing to use that experience to help others is essential for this position.
The closing date for applications is 14th October 2026. Please note: This role may close earlier than the stated deadline if we receive a high volume of applications, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
All applicants must submit a CV along with a cover letter explaining why they should be considered for this role and more information about your lived experience with addiction. Applications will not be accepted without a cover letter.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for a Lived Experience Support Worker to join our North and East team. You will be based at our Liskeard office. This role is suitable only for candidates who have had personal lived experience of drug and alcohol issues and who are willing to draw on this experience in their day to day work. This is likely to involve disclosure of this personal experience.
The successful candidate will work alongside Recovery Workers, using your knowledge and experience to encourage people to use the service and support them when they are not, working with individuals to achieve their goals. Using your lived experience, you will support our clients with their journey either into recovery or maintaining their recovery.
Our Lived Experience Support Workers are an active and integral part of our teams, bringing ideas and solutions so we can develop and improve our recovery communities and helping our clients to get onto the path to recovery. In your role, you will reach people through outreach, harm reduction, structured interventions and activities and will show through your own experience, knowledge and learning that change is possible.
If you think this could be the career for you, take the first step and apply now to join our amazing team.
Job description
Please see the linked job description and person specification for more information on the role and its responsibilities.