Recovery Works in the North West
Recovery Works is a UK-based charity that helps vulnerable people overcome complex barriers, such as drug and alcohol dependency, mental health challenges, homelessness, and criminal convictions, to rebuild their lives and secure sustainable, meaningful employment.
Core Services
- Addiction support
- Health and wellbeing
- Employment and training
- Support for people with convictions
Key Benefits
- Build personal confidence and motivation
- General guidance on addiction recovery pathways
- Referral, signposting, and information for local support networks
- Employer engagement and advocacy
- Reduce the likelihood of reoffending and promotes financial independence.
- Encourages positive lifestyle habits
Addiction Support
Guidance and mentoring to help people recover from drug and alcohol dependency.
- Our staff will offer advice and guidance that results in co-produced plan for your long-term recovery. This may include returning to education, volunteering within your own community or securing the right job for you at the right time in your recovery journey.
- We understand the importance that your health and wellbeing can have on your perceived level of happiness and fulfilment and how this can affect both your confidence and motivation as well as chance of employment. Our staff are here to help you and support you with your recovery.
- We will work with your Recovery Worker to ensure our work complements your Recovery Plan, with our staff often co-located within your local recovery service.
- Our Key Workers are integrated within treatment services provided by Change Grow Live (CGL) recovery services in the Northwest.
Health and Wellbeing
Tailored emotional and physical health interventions.
- Our staff will support you with a personalised plan to reduce and remove mental and physical barriers to employment and an improved lifestyle.
- Your health and wellbeing greatly influence your professional and personal life. We understand the importance that physical and emotional health has on your perceived level of happiness and fulfilment and how this can affect both your confidence and motivation.
- We will work with you to help you more effectively manage anxiety, stress, debt, housing issues and other areas impacting your health and wellbeing to empower you and build your confidence so that you can work towards gaining a job as well as an improved lifestyle.
Employment and Training
CV building, job applications, work experience, vocational training advice, and guidance, job carving, engaging, and advocating with local employers and Individual Placement and Support (IPS).
- Recovery Works’ initial aim was to secure sustainable employment for people with a history of addiction. Therefore, it is in employment support and guidance that we established our reputation, and which remains a core aspect of our service offer.
- We understand that each person is unique, and that the support required will vary greatly. It is our commitment to those people we support that we work in partnership with them, for as long as it takes, for them to achieve their self-defined goals, our aspiration for them being that this includes secure employment as a cornerstone of their wellbeing.
- We understand that each person is unique, and that the support required will vary greatly. It is our commitment to those people we support that we work in partnership with them, for as long as it takes, for them to achieve their self-defined goals, our aspiration for them being that this includes secure employment as a cornerstone of their wellbeing.
Support for People with Convictions
Specialised advice to help people with a criminal record re-enter the workforce safely.
- Our experienced staff provide mentoring within the community to ensure that you can access and receive the specialist support you require to find sustainable employment and reduce the likelihood of reoffending.
- Our programme looks at a range of factors which will support you in improving your lifestyle including, health and wellbeing, access to training and qualifications as well as work experience, up to date references and the chance to meet with employers who look at what you can do for them as an employee, not what happened in your past.
- Our aim is to support you into sustained employment so that you can secure a better quality of life for you and your family. Our staff are there to advise you about which careers best suit your needs and that you have a realistic chance of pursuing, if, when and how to speak to an employer about your past and how it makes the person you are today and how to become re-acquainted with life in the community.
How to access our services or make a referral
- Contact your local drug and alcohol treatment provider
- Contact your Recovery Coordinator
- Contact us our Recovery Works Service Manager Mark Little via mark.little[at]revoceryworks.org.uk
Recovery Works FAQs
Recovery Works is a support programme that helps people improve their health, wellbeing, confidence, and employability while on their recovery journey.
Recovery Works is designed for people who are in recovery and looking for practical support, guidance, and opportunities to improve their quality of life.
Recovery Works provides tailored support to help people build confidence, develop skills, explore career opportunities, and move closer to employment.
Participants can access a range of health and wellbeing activities, one-to-one guidance, and support designed to promote long-term recovery and personal development.
You can find information about eligibility and referral routes on the Recovery Works page, or contact the team directly for guidance.
Recovery Works can help improve wellbeing, strengthen social connections, develop employability skills, and support individuals towards positive long-term outcomes.